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NEW YORK (AP) — Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the national security aide who offered key testimony during the impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump and later accused the president of...
An overwhelming majority vote to tear up the dictatorship-era constitution and create a new one.
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Eric Steig 🇺🇸🇨🇦It's been almost 50 years since the USA violently deposed the duly elected president of Chile and replaced him with a murderous dictator. My heart if full with hope (and a bit of trepedation) about what comes next for Chile.
And for the US.
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The nest found in the city of Blaine, Wash., is about the size of a basketball and contained an estimated 100 to 200 hornets, according to scientists who announced the find Friday.
A year ago, 526 voters met in Texas to talk politics. We caught up with them ahead of the election.
Eric Steig 🇺🇸🇨🇦Main thing I learned from this article is that "listening to one another" isn't good enough. Understanding one another is required. We're frighteningly far away from that.
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During Thursday night's presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden stepped onto a political landmine that will certainly cost him with working
Billy Graham’s granddaughter says, “This president doesn’t represent our faith.”
Eric Steig 🇺🇸🇨🇦It's all well and good that there is evidently a move among some white evangelicals to reject Trump.
What I do not understand is why this wasn't completely obvious to them in 2016.
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Federal district courts have tended to rule for Democrats in litigation over how to run the election, but appeals courts, well stocked with the president’s nominees, are blocking them.
Eric Steig 🇺🇸🇨🇦If Democrats win, tey will have to tackle voter suppression by diminishing the power of Trump-appointed judges.
Legal experts: Is any way to accomplish that *other* than by adding new members to the Supreme Court??
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Intermediate-depth waters in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were well equilibrated with the atmosphere through the last deglaciation, according to radiocarbon data from deep-sea corals.
A final pre-election case for understanding the president as a noisy weakling, not a budding autocrat.
Eric Steig 🇺🇸🇨🇦Well into Hitler's rise, both British and Americans were still saying things like, "This guy is a clown. There's no real danger."
I hope @DouthatNYT is right that "There Will Be No Trump Coup". But I doubt it.
Hopefully, we'll never have to find out.
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Twitter announced fundamental changes to its platform intended to prevent political candidates from making false claims about victories on Election Day.
Eric Steig 🇺🇸🇨🇦People who might sit out the election because they think Biden/Harris aren't left-wing enough need to read this article.
Those who think they are too left wing should also read it.
If you understand it, you'll vote for them.
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Heavily armed militia members and other protesters gathered at the Michigan State Capitol in May 2020 demanding that the mask mandate be ended and the coronavirus quarantine be halted. It was during that protest that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said...
In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic -- and calling for the current leadership in the...