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Clinton Donors Charged in Massive Campaign-Finance Scheme
Eight people, including major Hillary Clinton donors and a witness in the Mueller investigation, have been charged in a massive campaign-finance scheme, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
The individuals conspired to "make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions" valued around $3.5 ...
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Clinton Donors Charged in Massive Campaign-Finance Scheme
Eight people, including major Hillary Clinton donors and a witness in the Mueller investigation, have been charged in a massive campaign-finance scheme, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
The individuals conspired to "make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions" valued around $3.5 ...
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Presidential Misconduct: Some Historical Perspective
This week, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee trotted out a trio of dispassionate legal experts to explain why the impeachment of Donald Trump was justified. They were there to bring a veneer of gravitas and erudition to what’s been, until now, a highly partisan affair.
But however smart people such ...
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Presidential Misconduct: Some Historical Perspective
This week, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee trotted out a trio of dispassionate legal experts to explain why the impeachment of Donald Trump was justified. They were there to bring a veneer of gravitas and erudition to what’s been, until now, a highly partisan affair.
But however smart people such ...
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AOC’s District Poll Numbers Are Bad
According to a Quinnipiac poll, 36 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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AOC’s District Poll Numbers Are Bad
According to a Quinnipiac poll, 36 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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The Four Fatal Flaws That Doomed Kamala Harris’s Campaign
Eight months ago, pundits from across the political spectrum were putting their money on Kamala Harris.
“If she was a stock right now, I’d buy her,” Jim Messina, Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on April 11. “A combination . . . of Harris for president and Beto ...
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The Four Fatal Flaws That Doomed Kamala Harris’s Campaign
Eight months ago, pundits from across the political spectrum were putting their money on Kamala Harris.
“If she was a stock right now, I’d buy her,” Jim Messina, Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on April 11. “A combination . . . of Harris for president and Beto ...
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Impeachment Witness Turley Claims Home, Professorship Threatened during Testimony
In an opinion article penned Thursday, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley claimed that his home and office were flooded with “threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University” over opposing President Trump’s impeachment in congressional testimony ...
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Impeachment Witness Turley Claims Home, Professorship Threatened during Testimony
In an opinion article penned Thursday, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley claimed that his home and office were flooded with “threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University” over opposing President Trump’s impeachment in congressional testimony ...
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There’s No Excuse for NATO Allies Not Meeting That 2 Percent Threshold
With the NATO summit wrapping up, President Trump continues to complain, accurately, that some allies like Canada are not spending 2 percent of their GDP on national defense, as the alliance requests of its members.
There’s really no good excuse for any member nation failing to hit that 2 percent threshold. ...
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There’s No Excuse for NATO Allies Not Meeting That 2 Percent Threshold
With the NATO summit wrapping up, President Trump continues to complain, accurately, that some allies like Canada are not spending 2 percent of their GDP on national defense, as the alliance requests of its members.
There’s really no good excuse for any member nation failing to hit that 2 percent threshold. ...
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Does Clint Eastwood’s New Movie Take Trump’s Side?
I've never been the villain of a Clint Eastwood movie before, but no hard feelings. I very much enjoyed Eastwood's new drama Richard Jewell, despite it taking the side of a guy who sued me. I'll post a review next week.
I don't know to what extent people who weren't sued by the late Richard Jewell remember ...
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Does Clint Eastwood’s New Movie Take Trump’s Side?
I've never been the villain of a Clint Eastwood movie before, but no hard feelings. I very much enjoyed Eastwood's new drama Richard Jewell, despite it taking the side of a guy who sued me. I'll post a review next week.
I don't know to what extent people who weren't sued by the late Richard Jewell remember ...
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Trump Is Incidental to the Culture War
Why do Evangelicals and other religious conservatives support Donald Trump?
Sometimes liberals try to explain conservative behavior as the product of false consciousness. Sometimes they claim not to understand it at all. Ezra Klein takes up the challenge of answering this question by examining a recent speech ...
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Trump Is Incidental to the Culture War
Why do Evangelicals and other religious conservatives support Donald Trump?
Sometimes liberals try to explain conservative behavior as the product of false consciousness. Sometimes they claim not to understand it at all. Ezra Klein takes up the challenge of answering this question by examining a recent speech ...
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The World Is Getting Better. It’s Just That No One Tells You About It.
A special Morning Jolt today, as I try to run through a long but by no means complete list of good news from the past year that was astoundingly under-reported and discussed, particularly when compared to presidential tweets, discussions of which pop culture offerings weren’t woke enough, glowing profiles of ...
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The World Is Getting Better. It’s Just That No One Tells You About It.
A special Morning Jolt today, as I try to run through a long but by no means complete list of good news from the past year that was astoundingly under-reported and discussed, particularly when compared to presidential tweets, discussions of which pop culture offerings weren’t woke enough, glowing profiles of ...
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Pelosi on Potential Trump Reelection: ‘Civilization as We Know It Today Is at Stake in this Election’
During a CNN town hall Thursday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that President Trump's reelection would pose an existential threat to civilization, just hours after she announced that the House would move forward with drafting articles of impeachment against Trump.
“The damage that this ...
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Pelosi on Potential Trump Reelection: ‘Civilization as We Know It Today Is at Stake in this Election’
During a CNN town hall Thursday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that President Trump's reelection would pose an existential threat to civilization, just hours after she announced that the House would move forward with drafting articles of impeachment against Trump.
“The damage that this ...
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