Tag Archive: GOP/Right Wing

The Next Death Wave from Coronavirus Will Be the Poor, Rural and White

Released for Syndication: 05/22/2020

What do you call a crisis that kills a hundred thousand Americans? It all depends on who does the dying. At first, it seemed...

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Why Absentee Voting Preparations Across the Country Are Worrying Experts

Released for Syndication: 05/20/2020

Nine primaries on June 2 may reveal blue states have a long way to go.

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Can Democracy Survive Bill Barr?

Released for Syndication: 05/13/2020

Bill Barr is covering up for Donald Trump. Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, had a phone call with the Russian ambassador...

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Trump’s Advisers Have a Brazen Plot to Gut Social Security

Released for Syndication: 05/12/2020

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the policy Donald Trump is fixated on has nothing to do with ramping up testing, getting protective...

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What Happens If Trump and Biden Both Claim Victory? Legal Scholars Fret Over Plausible Scenarios

Released for Syndication: 05/08/2020

Delving into how Trump and the GOP can hijack the process, they find an untested law, procedural unknowns and few clear constitutional brakes.

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Why Trump and Anti-Lockdown Protesters’ Calls to Return to Normal Are Acts of White Supremacy

Released for Syndication: 05/07/2020

The protests are a form of white privilege in action as the virus disproportionately infects and kills African Americans and people of color.

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America Is Exceptional—In Some of the Worst Ways

Released for Syndication: 05/01/2020

We have been prone to notions of greatness for far too long. It’s time for a realistic view of our nation.

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Why Mitch McConnell’s Refusal to Help States With Pandemic Costs Is Morally Bankrupt

Released for Syndication: 05/01/2020

States that spent millions of dollars fighting the coronavirus asked the federal government for help plugging huge holes in their budgets. Senate Majority Leader...

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Ohio Primary Adds New Worry for Fall: Rejected Provisional Ballots

Released for Syndication: 04/29/2020

Untold thousands of mail-in ballots and in-person provisional ballots are likely to be disqualified before the counting is over.

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In Many Red States, the GOP Puts Up Resistance to Voting by Mail

Released for Syndication: 04/24/2020

Election managers lay out what will make voting by mail work, but conservative political leaders aren’t listening.

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