The Democratic presidential field continues to grow as former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak threw his hat in the ring on Sunday. The 67-year-old Sestak served two terms in the House, is a retired Navy admiral, and lost twice while trying to reach the Senate. In a video on his website …
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The president is rarely in a building, save for the White House, that doesn’t have his name on it. And that is costing the American taxpayer more than $100 million, according to HuffPost. Trump’s recent visit to his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, contributed $3.6 million to that total. The …
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According to a fact check by the Associated Press, President Trump and his Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie are purposely taking credit for improvements made to a veterans healthcare program that started under President Obama. At a rally in Pennsylvania last week, President Trump said, “We passed VA Choice …
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Last week after a flurry of states made news by passing legislation that would restrict a woman’s right to choose, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) decided to visit one of those states, Georgia, to protest the anti-abortion bills that she said are a “nationwide assault on women’s constitutional rights.” On Sunday …
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President Trump wants America to know that he is totally innocent. At the same time, he seems increasingly nervous about the public seeing a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s findings, which Attorney General William Barr says he will release Thursday. Though Trump has in the past expressed indifference …
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President Trump had ISIS on the brain Friday morning, tweeting that the terrorist organization “uses the Internet better than almost anyone.” He made sure to clarify he did not mean to praise ISIS. Though the group is trying “to show a glimmer of vicious hope” (?), the president wrote, they …
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If you are a woman of limited means living in the state of Maine, and you find yourself pregnant, there’s a good chance you’ll end up at one of 18 Maine Family Planning clinics scattered around the state. As the sole Title X-funded program in Maine, MFP is, essentially, the …
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Racism and Republicanism been bedfellows for generations now, and advocates of both ideals have had their reasons for seeing the government fail. Few things have helped spark racial and economic progress, such that it is, like the bedrock legislation of the 1960s. Court decisions and federal programs have helped inch …
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The Supreme Court allowed President Trump’s ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military to go into effect Tuesday morning, ostracizing thousands of active service members and sparking another divisive controversy in American politics. There are an estimated 150,000 transgender United States veterans, according to a UCLA Williams Institute …
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Saturday Night Live took an It’s a Wonderful Life approach to the Trump White House, imagining an alternate reality where Donald Trump didn’t become president. “It’s awful. Everything’s falling apart. Sometimes I wish I’d never been president,” Alec Baldwin‘s Trump tells Kenan Thompson’s heaven-sent Clarence, who then presents Trump, like …
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