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After watching Joe Louis demolish Max Baer in four rounds at Yankee Stadium in 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote that the fight had been "the most disgusting public spectacle outside of a public hanging that our correspondent has ever witnessed." Hemingway's description of the heavyweight bout came to mind after Hillary Clinton challenged Donald Trump to show up for the three officially scheduled presidential debates this fall.
Donald Trump seems determined to turn the race for the presidency into the political equivalent of a professional wrestling match. A spectacle, that is, not a sober campaign for the most powerful post in the world.
We are all ethically obligated to look for a way out that builds democratic and inclusive societies and to reject chauvinists like Donald Trump and Vusi Khosa and President Zuma, says the writer. Picture: Eric Thayer We are ethically obligated to say that, yes, black lives matter, poor people's lives matter, women's lives matter, writes Imraan Buccus I have been watching the aftermath of the local government elections from the United States.
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It has been almost six months since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, and almost five months since President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, the widely respected and centrist chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to succeed him. Because of obstructionism by Senate Republicans, however, the Senate is no closer to holding a hearing on Garland's nomination, much less voting on it.
The right to vote is a foundation of our democracy and exercising that right is important. This year more than 19,000 Alaskans have registered to vote and most of them did it via our new online service.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton celebrates on stage as confetti falls during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28. As Hillary Clinton's campaign rolls across the country to town halls and rallies in swing states, the debate about its significance has become as divisive as a two-timing boyfriend in a suburban middle school. For women of a certain age, Clinton's nomination is the triumphant outcome of a movement that began with suffragettes, and continued with feminists who advocated for a woman's right to access contraceptives, go to Harvard or the Air Force Academy, to have equal protection under the law and to get a decent-paying job.
Earlier this year, I wrote an article noting that minor-party candidates rarely have much of an impact on U.S. presidential elections. However, if you've been following this election cycle, you'll note that there's good reason to believe that 2016 will be different.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, when in fact the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That definition works for economic insanity, too.
John Monaghan, a Vietnam War veteran, protests outside a campaign event for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in Portland, Maine. As the campaign heats up, so is the passion of our readers, whether for Trump or his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Media outlets in Alabama talk pretty regularly about how the craft beer industry has become a major economic force in the state. While brewing's economic contribution isn't quite in the same area code as agriculture or manufacturing in Alabama, it brings a useful chunk of change into the state .
There is an expression dating back to the Middle Ages, meant to teach a lesson about fairness or equality, which goes something like "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." It applies to lots of political debates, perhaps notably today's campaign issues regarding energy policy.
Let's hope the District 51 school board exercises better judgment about what constitutes healthy beverages than the state board of education did Wednesday. Meeting in Grand Junction, the state board voted 4-3 to end a seven-year ban on diet sodas in Colorado high schools, effectively putting the onus on individual school districts to decide whether to allow such drinks.
The rise of George McGovern's hard-left agenda in 1972, followed later in the decade by Jimmy Carter's evangelical liberalism, drove centrist Democrats into the arms of Richard Nixon and later Ronald Reagan. These so-called neoconservatives grew tired of liberals' perceived laxity about fighting the Cold War.
Should the American electorate be foolish or lazy enough to elect the politically clueless, arrogant, and race-baiting Donald Trump, then the people learned nothing from the disastrous Bush administration, whose mess we are still suffering from internationally and at home. A writer recently predicted a runaway win for Trump.
One of the most unintentionally revealing moments of Hillary Clinton's campaign so far came during her recent, unconvincing explanation of the email affair: "I may have short-circuited it and for that I … ah … you know, will try to clarify." Most of the resulting ridicule has focused on the "short-circuited" portion of the statement, which seems a particularly gentle euphemism for prevarication.
You would think that a presidential campaign that humiliated itself with a plagiarism scandal would have picked a new and fresh message for its election effort.