The Impeachment Probe Goes Public
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This morning, Wednesday, November 13, public impeachment hearings begin in the House of Representatives against President Donald Trump. The first two witnesses as...
Jeff Sessions Wants Back in the US Senate
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A seat in the US Senate, representing Alabama, will be up for grabs in 2020. The Democratic candidate will almost certainly be the...
A Squeaker of a Vote in Colorado on Sports Betting & Water Projects
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Several elections and referenda took place around the United States on Tuesday, November 5. One that provided a surprising amount of the night's...
Financing Single-Payer Health Care
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass), considered by some to be the front-runner for the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, recently set...
Donald Trump and the “Chaos Trades”
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A theory about recent stock futures activity is spreading around the US that suggests a conspiracy involving President Donald Trump. It has become...
Senator Romney (R – Utah) Increasingly at Odds with POTUS
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In recent weeks Mitt Romney, a rookie Senator (elected from Utah in 2018) but long a prominent Republican and in 2012 that party's...
Latest Candidates’ Debate Turns to Antitrust Law
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On Tuesday, October 15, the leading twelve candidates for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States met on a stage...
Appropriations Committee Chair to Retire, Part I
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Nita Lowey (D - NY), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, has announced she will not be running for re-election to Congress in...
The Newly Normal Impeachment Process
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The impeachment of a US President was once a very rare event. A child born in 1870 might have lived to be a...
Darrell Issa Wants to Return to the House of Representatives
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Darrell Issa, a California Republican who chaired the House Oversight Committee 2011-2015, and who declined to run for re-election in 2018, may have...
