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I spent 15 years of my career and life traveling from northern Louisiana to Baton Rouge as a legislator, first as a state representative and then as a state senator. I dedicated my life to serving people, as a politician and as an attorney, and much of the state's business gets discussed, debated and determined in Baton Rouge.
Stephen Roach says governments must wake up to the need for effective safety-net programmes to support workers who have been left behind, or suffer the consequences of a backlash against globlisation and free trade While seemingly elegant in theory, globalisation suffers in practice. That is the lesson of Brexit and of the rise of Donald Trump in the United States.
U.S. District Judge Jean Hamilton ruled last week that the federal government cannot force Paul and Teresa Wieland - an American mom and dad - to violate their religious beliefs by compelling them to purchase a health insurance plan that covers sterilizations, contraceptives, and abortion-inducing drugs and devices. But in making the Obama administration's case that the government should be able to do so, lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department made a telling claim: A single-payer health care system would effectively put a stop to such arguments in defense of religious liberty.
To gauge the opportunism and hypocrisy that define Donald Trump's Republican Party, consider this: Imagine the scalding rhetoric that would have boiled from the likes of Newt Gingrich, that Metternich of many green rooms, if Hillary Clinton had offhandedly undermined the collective security architecture of U.S. foreign policy since NATO was created in 1949. Vladimir Putin's regime is saturating Europe with anti-Americanism, buying print and broadcast media, pliable journalists and other opinion leaders, and funding fringe political parties, think tanks and cultural institutions.
Hillary Rodham Clinton gave the most important speech of her life at the Democratic National Convention Thursday. She did it with the confidence and zeal of a newly converted populist.
There's always been a disconnect between what pundits and political insiders hear when Donald Trump speaks and what rank-and-file Republicans hear. But when Trump gave his acceptance address on the last night of the GOP convention in Cleveland last week, the opinion gap was absolutely vast.
On the night she made history by becoming the first woman to accept a major party's presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton said the nation had reached "a point of reckoning" so critical that could not be left to Republican Donald J. Trump to navigate. Taking the stage just before 10:30 p.m., Clinton told a cheering crowd that "powerful forces are threatening to tear us apart."
In the coming weeks and months, we will all be inundated with polls, pundits and speeches telling us one presidential candidate is going to win in November. Be it Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump - no third-party candidate will make even a marginal ripple in the presidential pool party this year - we will have a new president after the polls close on Nov. 8. What does that mean? It means that the decisions of your local school board have a greater affect on you that anything in Washington, D.C. Just look at it this way: school districts around here pass multi-million budgets wherein they spend whatever moneys they have to educate area children.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump - I can't believe I wrote those words - gave a news conference Wednesday. Shall we first count the outrages or the lies? I think we need to start at the top of the outrage column.
Students at Elon University were so distraught at the thought of Pultizer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker sharing her "dangerous" views in a lecture this October, they started a petition asking the administration to withdraw Parker's invitation. The university announced two months ago that Parker - a Washington Post columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 - will deliver the Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture on Oct 4. Some students on campus took issue with Parker's columns as well as her book, " Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care ."
Back home in Arkansas on Saturday evening, everything was as it should've been: dinner on the table and lively political banter roaring back and forth across the dining room. At some point in the process -- I'm not sure whether we were talking about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, the parties' national conventions, gun control or immigration policy -- my wife's eyes glazed over, her mind escaping to a world where no one cared about politics or ever, ever talked about them.
The keynote speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention is usually delivered by one of the party's rising stars. The keynoter usually appears in prime time, for maximum exposure, striking a certain tone.
The notion that the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia would run smoother than the GOP's Trumpfest last week went out the door quickly. Even before the affair was gaveled in Monday, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she would quit after the convention - the biggest scalp from the Wikileaks hack of DNC e-mails.
The most famous special prosecutor remains the first one: Archibald Cox of Watergate fame. After Cox got sideways with President Richard Nixon in 1973, the president ordered Cox fired, which led to the "Saturday Night Massacre" and then to Leon Jaworski, and then to .
One week after Republicans sounded the gavel opening their gathering of party faithful, Democrats will do the same - even as they acknowledge familiar concerns regarding security, safety and a heightened state of tensions around the country. As much as the traditions of these political conventions are similar, we expect Democrats, at least publicly, to represent a more united front than Republicans did in Cleveland.
In the aftermath of the heinous terror attack in Nice, France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls made a jarring comment: "The times have changed, and France is going to have to live with terrorism." Prime Minister Valls, upset at the most recent attack on his homeland, undoubtedly feels like most of his compatriots -- afraid, frustrated and grief-stricken.
The stunt Ted Cruz pulled at the GOP convention in Cleveland Wednesday night may someday become known as his "Mistake on the Lake." By making a point to not endorse Donald Trump in his speech and telling people to vote their "conscience" in the fall Cruz did his own political future and his conservative principles no favors.