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October 12, 2016

Let’s Hear From a Deplorable

My sister, Peggy, knew she wasn’t voting for Hillary, despite the fact that they both started as Goldwater girls. But could my favorite member of the "basket of deplorables," as......
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October 10, 2016

160 Republican Leaders Don’t Support Donald Trump. Here’s When They Reached Their Breaking Point.

This list includes leaders who have said they will not vote for Donald J. Trump, have withdrawn endorsements of him or have called for him to step down as the......
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October 03, 2016

Can Republicans be rational?

. . . our political preferences are not the product of careful analytic reasoning. Instead, they spring from a combination of moral intuition (instinct) and a tribal affiliation with people......
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September 26, 2016

Donald Trump is America’s Silvio Berlusconi

Like Berlusconi in Italy, Trump has built a political campaign employing unvarnished language and jaundiced humor, which has succeeded in the United States, a country that — embarrassingly — ranks second......
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September 24, 2016

This celebrity-packed political ad eviscerates Donald Trump

The three-minute ad, released Wednesday by director Joss Whedon's super PAC, Save the Day PAC, starts out with a familiar plea from celebrities: Register to vote, and cast a ballot on Election......
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September 18, 2016

For Every 10 U.S. Adults, Six Vote and Four Don’t. What Separates Them?

But what distinguishes voters from nonvoters can be only partly explained by demographics. Experts say individuals tend to be motivated by a combination of their priorities, their group culture, how......
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August 12, 2016

Lynch v. Morales-Santana - A SCOTUS Case That Expats Should Follow

Issue: (1) Whether Congress’s decision to impose a different physical-presence requirement on unwed citizen mothers of foreign-born children than on other citizen parents of foreign-born children through 8 U.S.C. 1401......
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August 09, 2016

Block The Vote: A Journalist Discusses Voting Rights And Restrictions

I'm very concerned about it because the 2016 presidential election's going to be the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. I......
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August 07, 2016

What the Democratic Party Could Learn From Its Overseas Footsoldiers

A great article written by our own Democrats Abroad France members: Party politics is messy and often inefficient. And in today’s political climate, one filled with distrust and apathy, ensuring......
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July 25, 2016

Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing

There is something between a non-trivial and a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence for a financial relationship between Trump and Putin or a non-tacit alliance between the two men. Even......
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