The afternoon before the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, Parisa Setayesh got word of another blow to her and her husband’s plans to live and study together in the U.S. Setayesh, who is from Iran, was informed that her husband’s student visa was being invalidated. Their plan was …
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Republican leaders continue to embarrass themselves by not acknowledging reality, and the growing number of world leaders who’ve shown no problem facing the truth is making the GOP look even more pathetic. Three full days have passed since the 2020 election was called in favor of Joe Biden and, astonishingly, …
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Unless we awaken, the American people may well be sleepwalking into an electoral coup d’etat. If their own words are to be believed, Donald Trump and his operatives have been preparing for the election heist for some time. The rough model will be the 2000 Bush V. Gore election, when, …
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Former President Barack Obama lit into President Trump during a drive-in rally at the Florida International University campus in support of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Saturday. With hundreds of cars honking, Obama tore into Trump from the start. The former president said the current occupant in the White …
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Ready or not, Kanye 2020 is happening. The producer-turned-rapper-turned-[unclassifiable] is already on the ballot in three states, and is navigating various filing requirements and legal challenges to get a bubble next to his name in a handful of others. But myriad questions remain unanswered about the Wyoming resident’s slipshod run …
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In a normal country, we wouldn’t need a second round of expanded unemployment insurance benefits. The back-of-the-envelope math lawmakers did in late March would have been sufficient to see us through a temporary lockdown — the time it took to scale up testing, contact tracing, and the emergency production of …
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The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 affirming that the Manhattan district attorney can subpoena the president’s tax records but also ruled 7-2 to prevent Democrats in Congress from seeing them now, sending the cases back to be argued in the lower courts. This essentially guarantees the public will not see the …
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I didn’t enjoy my weekend with John Bolton. His new book, The Room Where It Happened, is blunt, partisan, thorough, and unpleasant — much like the man. Bolton’s righteous arrogance oozes in nearly ever sentence. His contempt for anyone who doesn’t share his reactionary world view is profound and on …
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A thought experiment: What if we lived in a world where the climate crisis directly threatened the lives of rich white guys? How different would the political debate be about cutting carbon and adapting to a superheated world? These questions occurred to me the other day after reading an excellent …
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“We told them very clearly that the president was not going to sign the bill if [funding for the Postal Service] was in it,” an official from President Trump’s administration told the Washington Post when discussing the $2 trillion Coronavirus Relief Aid that passed weeks ago. Trump made it clear …
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