Last week, three days after my father passed away, I was notified of phone calls in my district speaking in support of
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I knew from the moment I heard this that somehow the story of my very mild encounter with Devin Nunes on the flight from Salt Lake City to DC had made its way to Trump.
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Q: If you’re a would-be fascist and you’re losing, what do you do?
A: Two of the tricks in Trump’s (limited) bag are: “Get the fighters fighting” and “ignite a cultural war.” Here’s
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Now, to get to my point. In the country you're living in, not only do many Americans have an incredibly short memory span but reality has become malleable.
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Last week, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, better known as the DACA case.
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My brother alerted me to what happened last weekend after Governor Newsom mandated shelter in place for most of the state. Seems like "taking walks in the fresh air" was widely interpreted
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This week’s Torah portion is Sh’lach L’cha ( Num 13:1-15:41) in which the Israelites must decide if they will respond out of courage or out of fear. Our history is replete with instances of moral
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Information for this post is from Book 6 in my Making of America series: Marshall was born in Baltimore in 1908. His interest in law, and his awareness of racial injustice was awakened
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Photo reprinted under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Town Hall Project organized a bipartisan panel — Sen. Ron
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The question I ask myself is: How can Trump appeal to both moderates and radicals, who at their very core do not necessarily share the same values? I believe one of Trump's
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His presidency just needs to go big. And I mean BIG. Massively big. As in Way Beyond the Green New Deal Big. Everyone who ascends to the American presidency knows that he
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As I write this, the sound of the ambulance sirens wail outside and the dead bodies are literally piling up, kept in coffins in the churches, waiting for the all too slow
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