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The Nation magazine recently declared that the 2016 election "may be the most important election of our lives." This really shouldn't be surprising, since nearly every presidential election has been accompanied by similarly breathless promises that it will be one of the most important of our lives.
March 10, 2015: Hillary Clinton speaks during the Step It Up For Gender Equality event at the Hammerstein Ballroom on March 10, 2015, in New York JStone / Shutterstock.com) Newly released State Department emails show that in the days after Hillary Clinton's exclusive personal email use made international news, officials with the agency's legal department were urged by the former head of that division to make it clear that the bureau did not sign off on the former secretary of state's arrangement. But that advice, which came from John Bellinger, the State Department's Legal Adviser during the George W. Bush administration, appears to have gone unheeded, at least publicly.
Washington: US President Barack Obama, after months of sitting on the sidelines of the rancorous contest to succeed him, is now ready to aggressively campaign for Hillary Clinton, starting with a formal endorsement of her candidacy as early as this week. The White House is in active conversations with Mrs Clinton's campaign about how and where the president would be useful to her, according to senior Obama aides.
This piece by Eric Alterman about the press's He said/ She said "both sides do it" coverage of the 2016 election is an absolute must read. There is a very big risk of the press normalizing Trump and pathologizing Clinton in order to pretend they are being "balanced."
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next month will become the first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. In November, she could become the first female occupant of the White House, eight years after Americans elected their first black chief executive.
Certain Ohio officials and lawmakers need constant reminders that messing with voting hours and shoveling other restrictions at voters that make voting harder in Ohio are violations of federal law. A federal judge issued just such a reminder last week -- rebuking the state's Republican legislative majority, and Secretary of State Jon Husted who supported the move, for eliminating so-called Golden Week in Ohio when voters can both register and cast a ballot.
The headline in the paper edition of today's Washington Post reads: "Charity scrutiny riles up Trump" This is not the most biased headline ever to appear in the Post, but it clearly is designed to cast Trump in a bad light. As such, it corroborates Trump's claim that the media is out to "make me look very bad."
A slew of new state polls are strengthening one of the biggest hopes for Donald Trump supporters - that his singular appeal as a candidate will reshuffle the electoral map for 2016. The national contest between Trump and Hillary Clinton is a toss-up, but Trump is surprisingly competitive in a host of states that Democrats have long taken for granted.
No one is better at abusing power in D.C. than Newt - he'd be yet another reason America needs to reject Give Newt Gingrich credit for knowing how to play the long game. The congressional back-bencher spent years amassing power in the House of Representatives in order to position himself to take the Speaker's job when the moment was right - in his case, after the Republican Revolution of 1994.
Joining me now is the 2012 Green Party nominee, and a 2016 Green Party presidential candidate-some might say the leading candidate-Dr. Jill Stein. She's a Massachusetts physician who is, once again, hoping to make the world a better place and drive millions of Democratic voters nuts in the bargain.
A number of Republicans rationalize Donald Trump's proposals on immigration and trade as just political show. Similarly, some free-trade Democrats suggest that Hillary Clinton's protectionist stance is merely rhetoric.
Applications for concealed carry permits have spiked in the District since a federal judge ordered the city to stop requiring gun owners to prove they have a "good reason" to carry a firearm in public, according to documents filed as part of an ongoing legal challenge to D.C. gun laws. Ten days after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon 's order blocked the city from enforcing a key provision of its gun laws, the Metropolitan Police Department had received 85 concealed carry permit applications - compared to the 61 applications it had received in the prior six months.
Gov. John Kasich says the state probably will challenge a federal judge's ruling that put ahold on an effort to defund Planned Parenthood in Ohio. "I'm not for funding Planned Parenthood.
The first evidence that something was amiss in the American electorate came last February 20, when Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary. You don't need to be steeped in the minutiae of United States politics to work out why that happened - all you have to do is clear out all Trump's talk about walls and borders and focus on the US' intervention in Iraq.
As a service to you, the reader, a surprisingly convincing argument that you may find useful to impress your friends at Memorial Day barbecues. At some point, Donald Trump needs to designate the person who will serve as his second-in-command should he win the presidency this November.
When statisticians, mathematicians and physicists look at the distribution of factors in all the sciences, they uniformly use the term 'normal distribution.' The Gaussian or bell-shaped curve is the most ubiquitous of probability distributions in all the sciences.
Mr. Obama was discussing the 2016 presidential campaign during a news conference in Japan, saying foreign leaders are surprised by Trump and not sure how seriously to take the things he says. The assessment of the presidential campaign came on the sidelines of a Group of Seven advanced economies summit in Japan, the latest world gathering to be colored by global concerns about Trump.
Making nuclear exemptions for India, says Senator Edward Markey, 'only infuriates Pakistan and leads them to further increase their own nuclear capacities.' Aziz Haniffa/ Rediff.com reports from Washington, DC on a lively exchange in the US Senate over the Obama administration's decision to back India for NSG membership.
Hillary Clinton stops for a selfie with a supporter following a Women for Hillary Town Hall meeting in New York City. During a recent speech before the National Rifle Association, Donald Trump was explicit about the voters he's reaching out to: "I will say, my poll numbers with men are through the roof, but I like women more than men.