Opinion | My Country Suddenly Turned on Me - The New York Times - 0 views
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Countries invent stories and myth in order to make sense of trauma, too. One reason the scars of the Civil War have never fully healed is that we’ve never, as a nation, agreed on a single narrative about what it was all for.
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Now we are engaged in a great debate about the lessons and meaning of the Trump era. To progressives like me, the past four years have been a period of mendacity, incompetence, racism and — in the end — insurrection. The wounds are fresh.
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When I saw Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sworn in, I felt, briefly, as if all the injuries of the past four years might, with time, recede. As Michael Gerber, editor of American Bystander, so poignantly noted on the day of the inauguration, “As a person with a disability, it’s just nice to have a president who won’t make fun of me.”
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Cruz fires spokesman over 'inaccurate' Rubio video - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views
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Ted Cruz asked his communications director Rick Tyler to resign Monday after Tyler distributed a video that falsely depicted Marco Rubio dismissing the Bible.
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The incident comes a day before the Nevada Republican caucuses and in the wake of accusations from rival campaigns in recent weeks about Cruz's campaign tactics. Donald Trump has called Cruz a "liar" and Rubio and Ben Carson have also blasted the Texas senator.
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Trump, Rubio and Carson have all attacked Cruz for his ethics ever since Cruz's victory in Iowa. Cruz later underperformed in South Carolina two contests later.
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Pandemic Reaches Grim Milestone as Biden Moves to Take Charge - The New York Times - 0 views
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As the number of infected Americans passed 10 million and governors struggled to manage the pandemic, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. tried on Monday to use his bully pulpit — the only tool at his disposal until he replaces President Trump in 72 days — to plead for Americans to set aside the bitterness of the 2020 election and wear a mask.
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“It doesn’t matter your party, your point of view. We can save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months. Not Democratic or Republican lives — American lives.”
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Hours before Mr. Biden’s remarks, the drug maker Pfizer announced that an early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trial suggested the vaccine was robustly effective in preventing Covid-19,
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Donald Trump: No apology for questioning Ben Carson's Seventh-day Adventist faith - The... - 0 views
Even Trump's Kids Haven't Donated to His Campaign - The Daily Beast - 0 views
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Even Trump’s Kids Haven’t Donated to His Campaign
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With less than two weeks until the election, Donald Trump has amassed an impressive army of small donors, fueling his bid with individual contributions of $200 or less. But noticeably absent from the list of contributors is basically anyone with the last name Trump, many of the surrogates who represent The Donald on national television, and members of his own campaign staff.
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On Sept. 7, 2016, Eric Trump appears to have contributed $376.20 listed only as “meeting expense: meals.”
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The Party Still Decides - The New York Times - 0 views
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As Donald Trump attempts to clamber to the Republican nomination over a still-divided opposition, there will be a lot of talk about how all these rules and quirks and complexities are just a way for insiders to steal the nomination away from him, in a kind of establishment coup against his otherwise inevitable victory.
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We can expect to hear this case from Trump’s growing host of thralls and acolytes. (Ben Carson, come on down!) But we will also hear it from the officially neutral press, where there will be much brow-furrowed concern over the perils of party resistance to Trump’s progress, the “bad optics” of denying him the nomination if he arrives at the convention with the most delegates, the backlash sure to come if his uprising is somehow, well, trumped by the party apparatus.
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Americans speak and think in the language of democracy, and so these arguments will find an audience,
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Scott Pruitt confirmed to EPA - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views
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Scott Pruitt confirmed to EPA
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The Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, an agency Republicans desperately want to rein in after what they charge was eight years of dangerous activism under the Obama administration that hurt businesses, jobs and the economy.
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Next up will be Commerce nominee Wilbur Ross, Interior nominee Ryan ZInke, Housing and Urban Development nominee Dr. Ben Carson, and Energy nominee Rick Perry.
Donald Trump wants Iowa rematch, accusing Cruz of 'fraud' - BBC News - 0 views
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Donald Trump wants Iowa rematch, accusing Cruz of 'fraud'
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a new election in Iowa, accusing the Republican winner, Ted Cruz, of fraud.
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"Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!" Mr Trump said.Earlier, he wrote on Twitter that Mr Cruz "illegally" won the caucus, but later deleted the tweet.
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I Miss Barack Obama - The New York Times - 0 views
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As this primary season has gone along, a strange sensation has come over me: I miss Barack Obama
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Now, obviously I disagree with a lot of Obama’s policy decisions.
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But over the course of this campaign it feels as if there’s been a decline in behavioral standards across the board. Many of the traits of character and leadership that Obama possesses, and that maybe we have taken too much for granted, have suddenly gone missing or are in short supply.
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The More Trump Defies His Party, the More His Supporters Cheer - The New York Times - 0 views
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“The people who are supporting Trump represent a significant portion of the Republican base, which has always been less ideological and more about trust of the person,” Mr. Domenech said. “It is something both the Republican leadership in Washington and conservative ideological elites have underestimated.”
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many people at his rallies agreed with Mr. Trump on the issue. “I oppose abortion, but I think Planned Parenthood does a lot of good for people who can’t afford birth control,” said Kim Wells, a schoolteacher and Trump supporter in North Augusta.
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Mr. Trump rejected attacks from Jeb Bush and other candidates that he was not a conservative. He dismissed ideological labels altogether, a sentiment endorsed by the 10,000 people in the arena, who thundered their approval over and over. Instead of calling himself conservative, Mr. Trump said, “I’m a guy with common sense that’s going to make us a fortune.”
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News from The Associated Press - 0 views
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Thrusting himself into the heated American presidential campaign, Pope Francis declared Thursday that Donald Trump is "not Christian" if he wants to address illegal immigration only by building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Trump fired back ferociously, saying it was "disgraceful" for a religious leader to question a person's faith.
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underscored the popular pope's willingness to needle U.S. politicians on hot-button issues.
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The 2016 Presidential Cheat Sheet: Too Late for #NeverTrump? - 0 views
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The race is on to stop Trump. But with the Republican candidate starting out in the pole position-or is it the poll position?-his rivals will have to play a frantic game of catch-up to have any hopes of victory. Ben Carson is expected to depart the race on Friday with a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington.
When the Tide of Islamophobia Reached My Hometown Mosque - The New York Times - 0 views
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When the Tide of Islamophobia Reached My Hometown Mosque
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THE Islamic Society of North America’s headquarters sit atop a grassy hill overlooking Plainfield, Ind.
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Anti-Muslim hatred in the United States has grown in recent years. The “Ground Zero Mosque” episode in 2010 and successive anti-mosque protests across the country signaled a simmering Islamophobia.
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The VICE Morning Bulletin | VICE | United States - 0 views
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The VICE Morning Bulletin
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Two refugees from Iraq have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in California and Texas, accused of ties to jihadist groups.
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The sheriff of the Oregon county where armed anti-government activists have occupied federal land has offered the protesters a "safe escort" out.
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Why This Progressive Is Really Excited About Hillary | Jan Schakowsky - 0 views
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According to conventional punditry, I'm supposed to be lacking enthusiasm, nearly slapping my face to stay awake. But instead I can hardly wait to gather some friends and head to Iowa like I did in the bitter cold of 2008 for Barack Obama.
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When asked why I, a long time progressive activist who has worked closely with Bernie Sanders in the Congress, am so strongly supporting Hillary, my answer is simple. I really, really want a pro-woman woman to be the most powerful person in the world.
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We are living in a time when the politics are as anti-woman as I have seen in decades.
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Trump's vulgarity: Overt racism or a president who says what many think? - The Washingt... - 0 views
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President Trump had once again propelled himself to center stage — boxing out discussion of any number of world crises and, more immediately, freezing progress toward a bipartisan deal on immigration policy.
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Trump’s slur Thursday against the “shithole countries” from which he would rather the United States take fewer immigrants sparked a louder-than-usual tempest Friday
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President Trump referred to African nations and Haiti as "shithole" countries on Jan. 11
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White America's racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says - Th... - 0 views
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opposition to welfare programs has grown among white Americans since 2008, even when controlling for political views and socioeconomic status.
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White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says.
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T hat also hurts white Americans who make up the largest share of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients.
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