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In a rare rebuke, Chief Justice John Roberts hotly disputed President Donald Trump’s claims that federal judges decide cases based on the presidents who appointed them. Trump was complaining that Jon S. Tigar, the United States ...
Nearly 25 years ago, President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton led a robust campaign for tougher sentencing laws that would become the 1994 crime bill. At the time, the NAACP called it a ...
After pulling one last trick from its sleeve, Amazon’s yearlong HQ2 spectacle appears to be over. Although the company has not released an official announcement, The New York Times reported last week that the sweepstakes ...
Before Election Day we were urged to “defuse our explosive politics.” Okay, maybe — but they were explosive for a reason. Now that the Democrats have won the House of Representatives, politics is likely to ...
Possibly the most poignant line of the 1984 breakout hit “19” by electronic musician Paul Hardcastle was the one it deliberately drove home with synthesized drumbeat repetition: “In World War II the average age of ...
Challenging the bipartisan consensus on immigration; advocating a more populist and nationalist variant of conservatism than the Paul Ryan wing of the Republican Party; seeking to recast the GOP as a workers’ party; employing Stephen ...
The American people, more populist than not, never like “big”anything. That is, they don’t like “big government,” just as they don’t like “big business.” To be sure, neither “big” actually goes away, and so it’s ...
Republican Richard Nixon on the campaign trail in 1968. Credit: The Office of the President/public domain. “Since the First World War,” Norman Mailer wrote in 1960, “Americans have been leading a double life, and our ...
This election cycle, liberal Democrats are rallying around the idea of socialized higher education. Democratic socialist firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading the charge, of course, but she’s far from alone. As Politico reports, many Democrats ...
The 2018 midterm elections are just a day away and the media is understandably in a frenzy. Will the long-speculated “Blue Wave” materialize and drown the Trump administration’s agenda? Or did the spectacle of the ...
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