All posts tagged "National politics"
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4.8KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Party leaderships want to discourage challengers, protect incumbents
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went from an absolute nobody to one of Time magazine’s most influential people of the year after defeating...
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4.9KNewsPoor People’s Campaign bus tour makes stop in Syracuse
The tour was one of more than two dozen nationwide that started last month as a program of the Poor People’s Campaign:...
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4.7KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Bipartisan Band-Aid: Parties must compromise on health care
If representatives make a health care plan with bipartisan support, maybe the very issue that established our modern political division can be...
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7.1KOpinion & BlogsColumn | End career politicians by implementing Congressional term limits
The people of the United States will always disagree on how large a role the federal government should have. But they’re much...
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4.7KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Who picks the president, the public or the media?
“The new senator is already being floated as a presidential candidate.” That was the sub-headline of a story in The New Republic about California...
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4.7KOpinion & BlogsColumn | #MeToo cause could help Kirsten Gillibrand’s Oval Office quest
With one New Yorker already in the White House, another one hopes to replace him. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced that she is...
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4.1KOpinion & BlogsColumn | Government shutdowns don’t work. Stop using them.
Republican and Democratic leaders should stop considering the moronic tactic of shutting down the government in the future as a means to...
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4.2KOpinion & BlogsColumn | String along with Mitch McConnell
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claims he won’t try to end the shutdown unless he gets the high sign from Trump that...
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3.8KOpinion & BlogsColumn | GOP stripping incoming WI governor’s power defies voters
The Wisconsin Republicans committed political malpractice boiling down to "The people voted for the guy we didn’t want, so now we have...
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3.7KOpinion & BlogsColumn | If and when Mueller is fired will be ultimate test of GOP integrity
Republicans say Special Counsel Robert Mueller won’t be terminated; But what if he is?
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3.9KOpinion & BlogsColumn | World War I reminds us to reject nationalism
One hundred years ago, the U.S. withdrew from the world stage; We’re constantly tempted to try that again.
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6.0KOpinion & Blogs10 election-season cliches you’re bound to hear again and again (opinion)
“Truth is hard. Propaganda is cheap.” Maybe that’s why our candidates spend less time speaking on context and more time on meaningless...
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4.4KOpinion & BlogsIn tweet slamming indictments, Trump all but admits he prefers politics over ethics (opinion)
A Labor Day tweet slamming the Reps. Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter indictments crosses a new line, hitting a new low in...
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3.1KNewsMichigan official facing manslaughter charges for deaths in Flint (poll)
The fallout of the Flint water crisis continues in Michigan as a judge ruled this week that prosecutors have enough evidence to...
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5.2KOpinion & BlogsA response to the attack on journalism by the White House’s bullying pulpit
We’ve been complacent. We thought everybody knew how important a free press was to our world and that all this talk about...
