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5 months, 3 weeks ago

There is one big reason why Joe Biden refuses to step aside

Salon

President Joe Biden is running against a man with 34 felony convictions, two impeachments and a historically bungled attempt to manage a pandemic. An observer might be forgiven for assuming that, as former Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz told Salon in 2019, the American people would never stand for a president who behaves like Trump. "George Washington set an important precedent …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: Uncomfortable reality for Biden

CNN

Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. “In the northern reaches of Gaza,” he wrote, “over 20 members of my extended family seek shelter under the refuge of a staircase — a frail shield against the relentless and merciless storm of airstrikes.” “They tread cautiously, avoiding windows and the desolate streets where the overwhelming stench …

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1 year, 7 months ago

An overlooked factor behind Eleanor Roosevelt's successful leadership

Raw Story

PRESIDENT WOULD YOU PLEASE SUGGEST THAT MRS. ROOSEVELT CONFINE HER DUTIES MORE TO THE WHITE HOUSE.” The couple from Atlanta who sent the demanding telegram to President Franklin D. Roosevelt weren’t alone in their criticism of the First Lady. “Instead of going in search of beauty or remarkable artistic collections, or any of the things for which we usually travel …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Opinion: How liberals should rethink their view of the Supreme Court

CNN

Editor’s Note: Brad Snyder is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and the author of a forthcoming biography of Felix Frankfurter, “Democratic Justice”. Brad Snyder Courtesy Brent Futrell Since then, liberals have engaged in a constitutional strategy of getting to five justices – tailoring their arguments to the court’s “swing” justice – whether it was Potter Stewart, …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Granderson: Our divided U.S. should be able to unite for Ukraine

LA Times

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, speaks to Congress remotely, seeking more support from the U.S. to repel the Russian invasion. Greene hurls a series of nonsensical accusations at the administration before asking for financial support: “I desperately need your help to make sure I’m still in Congress to stop Biden’s tyranny. When a nuclear power facility in Ukraine was under attack …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Opinion: What grade did Biden get on his speech to Congress

CNN

CNN — CNN Opinion contributors grade President Joe Biden’s first speech before a joint session of Congress. Errol Louis: Biden’s speech was focused, sharp and brilliant Errol Louis CNN Joe Biden took a pitch-perfect victory lap for reaching 200 million Covid vaccine doses administered in less than 100 days in office – more than twice the number he’d originally promised …

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4 years ago

Opinion: The uphill road that awaits Donald Trump

CNN

Editor’s Note: Thomas Balcerski teaches history at Eastern Connecticut State University. Three other former presidents ran as third-party candidates after their time in office: Martin Van Buren in 1848, Millard Fillmore in 1856 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. Win again: Grover Cleveland President Grover Cleveland Hulton Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images In 1884, Grover Cleveland became the first Democrat elected president since …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Sorry, Donald Trump: The 2020 presidential election is on (opinion)

CNN

Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and CNN Presidential Historian. Secretary,” he asked, “how in the world can you remain so calm during this appalling crisis?” Marshall, who was the US Army’s Chief of Staff during World War II, replied bluntly, “I’ve seen worse.” Douglas Brinkley CNN …

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