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The GOP Won’t Pass Immigration Reform – and It Could Prove Disastrous
3 Mar 2014 … Dog whistle politics have served Republicans well. But with shifting demographics, they may be an albatross around the party's neck. Continue reading
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Don’t Count on the Precedent of Watergate to Help Depose Trump. We Got Lucky.
5 May 2017 … “Our Constitution works.” So declared newly installed President Gerald Ford in 1974 after Richard Nixon’s resignation. “Our great republic is a government of laws and not of men.” Continue reading
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Trump’s New Mantra: Herd Immunity
10 Oct 2020 … The White House has abandoned the idea of controlling the virus and instead is openly embracing the idea of “herd immunity.” Continue reading
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The Trump-Wins-First-Debate Narrative Has Already Been Written
9 Sep 2016 … Apparently, pretty much everyone I know is a bed-wetter. The term gained currency in politics in January 2010 when Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, in a Washington Post opinion piece titled “November doesn’t need to be a nightmare for Continue reading
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The President Plays with Matches
12 Dec 2017 … Once again the country watches in horror as firefighters struggle to contain blazes of historic voracity — as we watched only a couple of months ago when at least 250 wildfires spread across the counties north of San Francisco. All Continue reading
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Controversy Over Florida’s Latest Voter Roll Purge
5 May 2012 … There’s a controversy brewing around this year’s election and, not surprising, it’s happening in the Sunshine State. According to the Associated Press, it began last year when Florida Governor Rick Scott asked Kurt Browning, the former secretary of state (who Continue reading
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Going Big on the Coronavirus Relief Bill
2 Feb 2021 … If Biden gets this bill passed and Americans feel that it relieves the economic crunch, it will go a long way toward erasing people’s distrust of government action to regulate the economy. Continue reading
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The Problem with Portland
8 Aug 2020 … Trump is clearly trying to change the national narrative from his disastrous response to the coronavirus and the economic crash to the idea that he alone can protect white Americans from their dangerous Black neighbors. Continue reading
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Marty Kaplan
4 Apr 2012 … Marty Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. He is the founding director of the School’s Norman Lear Center, a nonpartisan research and public Continue reading
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I’m Sequestration — Fly Me
4 Apr 2013 … Congress is okay with cutting federal services -- but their planes better be on time. Continue reading