Politics articles
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The political lesson of the 1968 anti-war protests
“The big issue in ’68, it turned out, was not Vietnam - it was law and order,” says historian James Traub. And for Biden, “The electoral danger is [protesters] offending the much larger group of voters to Biden’s right.” And his “narrow path” is to “take action in regard to Israel that will show that he shares some of their concerns in a way that does not identify him with the demonstrators.”
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Kristi Noem's most public murder is her political career
Most people caught bragging about how they took a family dog to a rock quarry and murdered it because they “just hated that dog,” might think about shutting up for a moment. Most people might hope that something horrific would appear in the next news cycle to divert the public spotlight and end painful memes about a puppy mounted like a trophy. But no one would say that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is like most people. Noem is still going on the air, not to apologize for her dog murder, but...
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Powell: Political events won't influence Fed decisions
United States Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stated on Wednesday that the Fed will not consider political events in its decision-making processes. When asked about the influence of the forthcomi