Nancy Reagan Dead At 94: First Lady Who Pushed 'Just Say No' Campaign
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The identity politics of whiteness, intensified by a time when there have been no economical alternatives on the table, may have closed that door for tens of millions. Whether you can bring yourself to care about them or not, that is a bad end to a bad story.
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I'm a lifelong resident of Flint, Michigan, and a lifelong fast-food worker. That means my tap water is toxic, and my paycheck is too small to afford a safe alternative.
Although some measure of judicial restraint is essential to the legitimacy of constitutional interpretation, even conservatives recognize that judicial restraint in all cases would seriously abdicate a fundamental responsibility that the Framers themselves entrusted to the judiciary.
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This has been one crazy political week. It has been so tumultuous and, in some ways, so calamitous for the Republican party, that we may be witnessing a fatal rupturing of the GOP.
What astounds me is not that Trump has "taken over" the party but that so few recognized that Trumpism was the Republican Party for decades, and he has not taken it over but given voice to its private thoughts and voting record. Politics is a puzzle and the pieces do connect and present a coherent picture.
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I'm not surprised that none of the candidates have spoken in favor of Snowden, but I just thought that if there was someone who would stand up for him, it would be Bernie Sanders.
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The media can act shocked about Trump failing to quickly and very clearly denounce David Duke and the KKK and their support for him, but they didn't seriously ask the more important question: Why do the advocates of white supremacy like and advocate for Donald Trump?
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The hard-bitten, corporatist Democrats are moving Hillary Clinton through the presidential primaries. They are using "Republican-speak" to beat down Sanders as favoring more taxes, and they may unwittingly be setting the stage for a serious split in the Democratic Party.
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A nationally-televised presidential debate stage is, indeed, neither the time nor the place, one would think. This year, however, all the rules have been thrown out and we've got Donald Trump and Marco Rubio comparing relative penis sizes in their effort to become the so-called leader of the free world.
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In filling the Supreme Court vacancy, Senate Republicans seem to be afraid of, well, everything.
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This is too important a national race to let slide by without getting engage. Progressives should support P.G. Ohio Democrats must vote for him. We should all contribute what we can. He is the ascendant Obama coalition; let's make sure he ascends right now.
I am a busy parish priest half-way through Lent -- so I quite frankly did not have time this week to write about what it means to be prayerfully pro-choice... again. But the orchestrated efforts to turn back the clock on women's reproductive freedom left me no other principled choice.
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Donald Trump, his supporters proudly declare, tells it like it is. So what, exactly, is "it"? Muslim throngs celebrating 9/11? Black-on-white crime? Hordes of rapists from Mexico?
How did former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton get her mojo back? First, she finally found a message that encapsulates everything she's been trying to say, but couldn't quite figure out how to deliver.
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Trump is the only candidate who has read the mood of the Republican electorate accurately. He's right on point. What Republican voters want is the candidate with the biggest penis. Temperament or policy? Nah.
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Maybe Justice Thomas' silence had no meaning other than that he did not think of a question that would have been useful. Maybe the question he asked now was the first one that he thought of as useful and that nobody else asked. For us, it should not matter.
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I wish to support Senator Warren's encouragement of the scientific community to pursue marijuana as treatment for pain and as a means to reduce the tragic increases in deaths by opiate overdose.
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It's no secret that US military operations can be harmful to the environment. US military presence and interventions often leave environmental health problems for both soldiers and the local population.
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Unlike the British press, which openly acknowledges and parades its biases, many American news outlets like to maintain a pretense of objectivity. But this doesn't mean that they're objective, it just means that their biases are more insidious.
