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‘Republicans for Harris’ launch features key names, impressive numbers
Given the state of the GOP, it’s not easy for any Democratic candidate to pick up cross-party backing, but Kamala Harris is now backed by many Republicans.
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As Trump backs out of debate with Harris, what happens now?
In his imagination, Donald Trump is a man of incredible bravery. In 2018, for example, after a gunman killed 17 people in a Florida high school, the Republican boasted that he would’ve had the courage to run into the school during the mass-shooting. In remarks to the nation’s governors, the then-president said at the time,…
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With Putin, Trump ignores ‘do not congratulate’ advice (again)
In the spring of 2018, relations between the United States and Russia were at a delicate stage. Vladimir Putin’s government had been credibly accused of launching a poison-gas assassination attempt on British soil; the White House had just announced sanctions against Russia in response to its attack on our elections; and the Kremlin had just…
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Kamala Harris delivers the only response we need to Trump’s regressive messaging
Less than a week ago, in Atlanta, Vice President Kamala Harris stood in front of 10,000 people; I was told another 10,000 awaited outside the venue, unable to get in. The crowd was jubilant, filled with the kind of hope many Democrats thought had slipped through their fingers this election cycle. Megan Thee Stallion played…
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Kamala Harris has re-energized Democrats, but the party faces a long road against MAGA Republicans
Democrats have had a remarkable two weeks, as Vice President Kamala Harris has re-energized their hopes for retaining the White House and definitively turning the page on the Trump era. But it’s only been two weeks. Even in the most abbreviated general election campaign in modern history, the likely Democratic nominee will face three full…
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‘I love my Black job’
As a rule, American politicians tend to root for American athletes at the Olympics. It’s a rule Donald Trump hasn’t always followed. Exactly three years ago this week, for example, the former president lashed out at the U.S. women’s soccer team after they “only” won Bronze medals. “If our soccer team, headed by a radical…
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Trump’s interview delay due to fact-checking dispute, NABJ president says
Donald Trump‘s appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday got off to such a late start because he did not want to be fact-checked live, NABJ President Ken Lemon told Axios. Trump’s interview was delayed by more than an hour, and at the time he blamed audio issues for…
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Why the anti-trans right is attacking two female Olympic boxers
There are no trans women at this year’s Olympics. There are two nonbinary athletes competing in their assigned sex at birth category, but no trans women. Years of anti-trans activists and conservatives openly raging at any sporting organization that even hinted at including trans women in women’s sports succeeded in killing the Olympic dream for…
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Why I voted against the Kids Online Safety Act
Protecting kids online shouldn’t mean making some kids safer while putting others in harm’s way. That’s why earlier this week I voted against the Kids Online Safety Act, a well-intentioned bill that unfortunately pairs important privacy and design protections with new censorship powers. I fear that these authorities could be abused by a MAGA administration…
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An Alabama town’s first Black mayor speaks out
For almost 60 years, the positions of mayor and Town Council member in my small town of Newbern, Alabama, were “handed down” by white residents to other residents. Newbern is a small and majority-Black town, yet Black residents could not remember a single election for those positions. As the first Black person elected mayor of Newbern,…