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Dr. Mark P. Jones is the fellow in political science at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies at Rice University and co-author of Texas Politics Today. We asked him to share his opinion on the Sen. Ted Cruz vs. Beto O'Rourke race for Senate.
Just in Time for the 101st Anniversary of Kennedy's Birthday on May 29, Flight Logs and Other Data Reveals JFK flew solo in just ten days at an Embry-Riddle seaplane base in Miami during World War II. New documents reveal U.S. President John F. Kennedy, learned to fly at an Embry-Riddle seaplane base in Miami during World War II.
A key Texas runoff for a U.S. House seat will test whether the national Democratic Party's establishment can overcome an insurgent wing more openly hostile to President Donald Trump. Others will set up November contests where Democrats hope to flip three Republican-held congressional districts, a once unthinkable total in such a conservative state.
That's according to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who warned in a commencement speech on Saturday at Rice University in Texas that "an endless barrage of lies" and a trend toward "alternate realities" in national politics pose a dire threat to U.S. democracy. The 76-year-old billionaire, who flirted with an independent presidential run in 2016, did not call out any politicians by name.
That's what former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a commencement speech Saturday at Texas' Rice University, warning that "an endless barrage of lies" and a trend toward "alternate realities" in national politics pose a dire threat to U.S. democracy. The 76-year-old billionaire, who flirted with an independent presidential run in 2016, did not call out any politicians by name.
Americans are facing an "epidemic of dishonesty" in Washington that's more dangerous than terrorism or communism. That's according to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who warned in a commencement speech on Saturday at Texas' Rice University that "an endless barrage of lies" and a trend toward "alternate realities" in national politics pose a dire threat to U.S. democracy.
In this Aug. 16, 2017 photo, the national flags of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are lit by stage lights before a news conference, at the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations in Washington. Mexico is taking U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to leave NAFTA more seriously as a second round of talks opens Friday, Sept.
The White House has fired its chief usher, Angella Reid, the first woman and second African American to hold the position. When the White House residence staff arrived at work Friday morning, they were told that Reid was no longer employed, according to someone with knowledge of the dismissal.
President Trump listens as he and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participate in a news conference in the East Room of the White House on April 12. Addressing the United Nations last fall, President Obama took a moment to highlight for fellow world leaders what he called "the most important fact" about the state of the global affairs: human existence on planet Earth is good - and getting better. War is down, he said, while life expectancy is up.
"What will Trump do?" is a fair and logical question, but the wrong one to ask right now. The more pressing issue for every American is: What do I, personally, plan to do? That applies whether you earnestly support or bitterly oppose the President-elect, or fall somewhere in between.