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(10/04/16 5:02am)
For third-party voters and the growing percentage of Americans who identify themselves as politically independent, this election season could have been a unique opportunity. With two widely disliked major party candidates, 2016 had the potential to be a great year for third parties — although it was probably not plausible that they’d be able to steal the election out from under the feet of the major parties, they could at least secure funding for their party for the next election, or maybe even make the debate stage.
(09/29/16 12:10am)
Hillary Clinton has a lot of assets in her corner in the run for the presidency.
(09/26/16 12:42am)
Sept. 26's general election debate, the first of three, has the potential to swing the election one way or the other.
(09/22/16 1:55am)
Following this weekend's bombings in New York and New Jersey, Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspect in the case, was taken into custody following an exchange of fire with law enforcement that left two officers and Rahami himself injured. He was taken to a hospital, where he received surgery and, presumably, further care for his wounds. He's been charged with attempted murder for the two officers he shot, as well as with various charges related to the bombings. He will have a trial, in which he will plead guilty or attempt to defend himself. In his trial he will be represented by an attorney, who he will hire or who will be provided for him by the government.
(09/15/16 3:31am)
As we close in on the first debate on Sept. 26, there’s been a lot of discussion about the debate rules. There’s Donald Trump, of course, who’s questioning the fairness of the schedule and the moderators, but for once this isn’t about him. This is about Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.
(09/08/16 1:51am)
Donald Trump might be polling pretty well with white people who don’t have college degrees, but he’s largely missing the mark with everybody else. To put that in perspective, Romney did better than Trump with white and non-white voters and still lost. Trump is setting himself up to trail Romney’s losing campaign by large margins, particularly with minority voters, with whom his performance is dismal — sometimes in the single digits.
(09/01/16 1:01am)
49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick inspired a storm of outrage this week when he refused to stand for a pre-game playing of the national anthem. The media and public anger was reminiscent of a few weeks ago, when Gabby Douglas didn’t put her hand over her heart for the pledge. While Douglas publicly stated that she was simply standing at attention and has apologized, Kaepernick has explained that his actions were an intentional protest against the oppression of people of color in America.
(08/26/16 4:40am)
Well, here we are again. Nude photos of Ghostbusters star and SNL cast member Leslie Jones were pulled off her iCloud and posted to her website by hackers.
(08/25/16 6:01pm)
Over the last year, top news stories have been filled with Donald Trump. Hardly a day has gone by when we haven’t seen something ridiculous come out of his mouth — whether he’s attacking a Gold Star family, making fun of Heidi Cruz, talking about his genitals during a debate or saying a judge from Indiana can’t do his job because he’s Mexican, there is always something new going on with the Donald.
(08/19/16 10:55pm)
On Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced that the federal government would be slowing down and eventually cutting off entirely its relationship with the for-profit prison industry. She specified that contracts would not be terminated, but rather that they would not be renewed when they come up for assessment, which should close all private prisons housing federal inmates in the next five years.
(08/12/16 6:42am)
In early July, a poll showed that 13 percent of people would rather have life on earth obliterated by a giant meteor than vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. This is not a feeling that is difficult to understand, given that both nominees are historically unpopular and arguably unfit for office. In any election in which she was not running against Donald Trump, Clinton’s scandal-riddled past and demonstrably poor judgment would doubtlessly sink her. In any election in which he was not running against Hillary Clinton, Trump’s crippling inability to keep his mouth shut and his allergy to facts would doubtlessly sink him.
(07/27/16 3:52am)
I’ve spent the last few weeks — and indeed most of this primary season — taking potshots at the GOP. Their prancing disaster area of a nominee makes them an easy target. But this week, the Democratic Party establishment has reminded us in memorable fashion that you don’t need to be short-fingered and poorly-informed to really put your foot in it.
(07/13/16 3:35am)
In late April, the Democratic governor of my home state, Virginia, restored the voting rights of felons, provided they had completed their term of imprisonment, parole and probation. Similar laws apply in 38 states and the District of Columbia, while most of the remaining states have a lifetime ban on voting for convicted felons.
(07/06/16 3:09am)
One of the overarching themes of Donald Trump’s campaign has been vilification of the press. Most recently, of course, this has shown itself in his campaign banning various news outlets from reporting on him. But this strained relationship has been a feature of his entire 2016 run — remember his press conference that turned into a surprise attack on the reporters present? Remember his threat to “open up the libel laws” so that he can sue people who write negative things about him? Remember when he threw a tantrum about Megyn Kelly asking him questions in debates? Remember when he complained back in the early days of the primaries about how the press in general treated him worse than anyone else?
(06/29/16 12:00pm)
If you’ve followed world news in the last week or economic news in the last few months, you’ve heard at least a little bit about the UK voting to leave the EU, a decision commonly referred to as the Brexit. Feelings on the other side of the pond are running high, and among news outlets on this side of the pond, there seems to be a sort of consensus that the British vote indicates the advent of President Trump in November.
(06/15/16 4:21am)
In the early hours of Sunday morning in Orlando, Omar Mateen opened fire in a gay nightclub, wounding 53 and killing 49 in the deadliest gun massacre in our country’s history.
(04/21/16 3:35am)
To teach or not to teach Shakespeare? That is the question.
(04/18/16 4:04am)
Inevitably, the 1994 crime bill came up at Thursday’s Democratic debate in Brooklyn. While Hillary Clinton did her best to make everyone remember that it was her husband who actually signed the bill into law, she can’t erase the fact that she supported it at the time. Nor can Sen. Bernie Sanders, who voted for the law, hide that by deflecting the questioning back to Clinton’s astoundingly racist 1996 defense of it.
(04/12/16 1:24am)
In America, sex education can range from excellent to nonexistent, depending on where you live. Because there is no federal regulation on sex ed in schools, states get to choose whether or not to mandate it and what information to provide.
(04/04/16 3:06am)
At the beginning of the 2016 primary season, there was much ado about the Democratic debate schedule. Sanders and O'Malley supporters complained that the limited number of debates, frequently placed on nights when no one would be watching, was catering to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For Sen. Sanders, it was an attempt by the Democratic establishment to keep Hillary from stumbling by not allowing her to talk too much. For O'Malley, it was clearly an attempt to keep his struggling campaign in the dark so it would prevent no challenge to her.