Boris Johnson Announces Resignation, but Could Remain Prime Minister for Months
Boris Johnson (the right-wing, embattled Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) announced on Thursday that his resignation would follow dozens of exodus from his cabinet. Before his announcement outside 10 Downing Street, at least 59 members of Johnson’s administration had left their postsIn response to his appointment earlier this year of a minister who had […]
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Johnson’s Downfall Presents Rare Opportunity for Massive Political Reset in UK
Boris Johnson, U.K. prime Minister, was still present when I began this column in London on Wednesday night. By 9:15 Thursday morning local time, after an extraordinary 36 hours in which dozens of his ministers and Conservative Party officials had resigned, he’d bowed to the inevitable and announced that he would resign, though he tried […]
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Supreme Court Decisions Will Change Political Landscape
The Supreme Court has concluded one of the most significant and consequential terms of its history. It leaves behind consequences and implications for the direction and future of our country. A move of Hispanic and Black voters to the left could be a significant result. It is reasonable to conclude conservatives are content with the […]
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Congress Members Propose Slashing Military Budget by $100 Billion
Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan led a group of House Democrats this week in filing amendments that would slash current U.S. military spending by $100 billion and reverse recent efforts to add more money to President Joe Biden’s historically high Pentagon budget request for the coming fiscal year. The proposed amendments to the National […]
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New York Times Pays for Opposition Research Into Talk Radio
Here’s one easy way to figure out if a newspaper is in the tank for the Democrats: Do they spend money to study how Democrats are being unfairly attacked on conservative talk radio? The answer is “yes” at the New York Times. Their front page on July 5 carried a story titled “Right-Wing Radio Sows […]
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Twenty Years Later, It Is Still Time to Dismantle the War on Terror
Three days after the twin towers fell, then-President George W. Bush called for Americans to “unite.” What followed was the decades-long United States military-led campaign — the “war on terror” — which has resulted in the death of over 2 million Muslims; the expansion of a network of over 800 global U.S. military bases; and […]
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Montana Abortion Clinics Restrict Pill Access for Out-of-State Patients
Missoula, Montana — The four states bordering Montana have “trigger laws” in effect or pending now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ended federal protections for abortion, making conservative Big Sky Country an unlikely haven for women seeking to end their pregnancies. But Montana’s potential to become an abortion refuge has been diminished — not […]
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Critics Decry Kansas Holding Referendum on Abortion During Primary Election Date
A referendum on the Kansas Constitution, which could alter the document to assert that it does not guarantee the right to abortion, is set to occur during the August 2 primary elections in the state — a date that some contend was selected by Republicans on purpose, as left-leaning or moderate voters are less likely […]
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Warren, Sanders Call on Biden to Issue Pardons for Cannabis-Related Convictions
On Wednesday, six Democratic senators wrote to President Joe Biden to ask him to pardon all federal nonviolent marijuana convictions and follow up on campaign promises that cannabis would be removed from Schedule I status. The letter, signed by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), among others, applauded Biden’s […]
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Pat Cipollone to Testify Before Jan. 6 Committee This Week
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone served under President Donald Trump and has agreed to testify before a House select committee. The committee has spoken before with Cipollone. but only in an informal, limited scope. After weeks of negotiations to force him to testify under oath about his work during the last weeks of Trump’s […]
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