By Richard L. Hasen Richard L. Hasen is the chancellor’s professor of law and political science at the University of California at Irvine and the author of “Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy.” Jan. 24, 2020 at 10:48 a.m. EST When the polls closed on […]
Polarization has changed the two parties — just not in the same way. By Ezra Klein Mr. Klein is the author of “Why We’re Polarized.” Jan. 24, 2020 American politics has been dominated by the Democratic and Republican Parties since the Civil War. That gives us the illusion of stability […]
By Michelle Goldberg in NYT There are no more adults in the room. After three harrowing years, we’ve reached the point many of us feared from the moment Donald Trump was elected. His decision to kill Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s second most important official, made at Mar-a-Lago with little […]
by Chris ButlerA Vanderbilt professor says rural Tennesseans are too racially prejudiced to realize Obamacare is good for them.That professor, Jonathan Metzl, told Boston University Today that he knows this about rural Tennesseans because he’s interviewed them.As The Tennessee Star previously reported, Metzl recently wrote a book called , Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics […]
by Mary Ellen Blencoe About 30 of my high school classmates and I are reminiscing about the good old times. A few of us have a separate thread going about racism (our school was segregated at that time). One of the men asked if we remembered our 7th grade Virginia […]
By Matthew Rosenberg and Nick CorasanitiNov. 10, 2019A few hours after polls closed in Kentucky last Tuesday, a Twitter user writing under the handle @Overlordkraken1 posted a message to his 19 followers saying he had “just shredded a box of Republican mail-in ballots.”It was clear that the Kentucky governor’s race was going to […]
1999 vs. 2019: Senate Republicans’ attitudes on impeachment sure have changed a lot contributed by Mary Ellen Blencoe Senate Republicans have very different takes on impeaching Trump versus impeaching Clinton. Original Story – By Li Zhou and Hannah Brown, VOX, Updated Oct 2, 2019, 6:19pm EDT In 1999, Senate Republicans […]
….If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews Although the president was quoting Pastor Robert Jeffress’s comments on Fox News, […]
This piece first appeared on RobertReich.org. In today’s political climate, the question of whether or not to impeach the President of the United States is often thought of in political terms. But there is a much deeper concern at the heart of the question. An impeachment inquiry in the House […]
