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Five Supreme Court Cases from the Second Trump Administration
Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States presents many constitutional quandaries. By Amy Davidson.
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Armed ‘patriots’ turn protests toward Muslim Americans
They are known as "Three Percenters," followers of a movement that has rallied against gun control efforts nationwide, patrolled the U.S. border with Mexico and recently begun confronting Muslim Americans. By Reese Dunkin and Emily Schmall.
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Will Ferrell Returns As George W. Bush To Mock Trump On 'SNL'
Will Ferrell surprised "Saturday Night Live" viewers this weekend when he reprised his role as George W. Bush during the show's cold open. The actor brought back his famous impression of the 43rd president to poke fun at the current group of Republican presidential candidates and to announce that "Bush" is entering the race, yet again.
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Vladimir Putin calls Donald Trump ‘outstanding and talented’
Add Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump’s ranks of admirers. The Russian president on Thursday called the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination “an outstanding and talented personality” at a news conference in Moscow, according to the Tass news agency. Trump is leading national polls for the Republican race. Putin said Trump is “the absolute leader of the presidential race” and that he welcomed the controversial billionaire’s statement that he...
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How America’s dying white supremacist movement is seizing on Donald Trump’s appeal
Making friends is no easy task for modern white nationalists. In an era of gay marriage and a black president, more than a half-century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law, separatists can’t exactly swan dive into conversations with strangers about the white-power cause. But Rachel Pendergraft — the national organizer for the Knights Party, a standard-bearer for the Ku Klux Klan — told The Washington Post that the KKK, for one...
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Stephen Colbert: I May Have Been ‘Wrong’ to Say Trump Can’t Win
In a new interview with CBS’s John Dickerson, Stephen Colbert worries that he may have misjudged the Donald Trump phenomenon. Yes, you read that correctly, Stephen Colbert finds some aspects of Donald Trump’s persona “very appealing.” Speaking to CBS News’s John Dickerson for an interview set to air this Sunday, the Late Show host praised Trump’s “populism,” saying, “The party elders would like him to go away but the people have decided that he is not going to.”
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In the Year of Trump, the Joke Was On Us
How the campaign's biggest laugh turned ugly in 2015. By Matt Taibbi.
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How Donald Trump Answers A Question
The next time you think you agree with Donald, do yourself a favour, and look at his words.
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'Hee haw': This remix of Palin's Trump speech is insane
When Sarah Palin thrust herself back into a presidential campaign on Tuesday with her endorsement of Donald Trump, she also gave the Internet plenty of new clips to pass around, and now you can watch it all in the form of a “Hee Haw” remix. It’s insanely entertaining. The remix alternates between Palin and clips from the country music variety show “Hee Haw,” which is a move we can only suspect Stephen Colbert would approve of.
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3 in 4 Young Black Americans Say They'd Feel Like Fleeing the Country if Donald Trump Were Elected
A majority of young Americans say they would feel like fleeing the country if Donald Trump won the presidency, according to a new Fusion poll about ~feelings~ and the 2016 election. We asked Americans between the ages of 18 and 35 how they would feel about hypothetical wins by the major Republican and Democratic candidates, including Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. They had a few options...
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Reminder: Donald Trump is a cowardly draft dodger
He’s leading the Republican pack and loves to talk tough about ISIS, but it’s worth remembering that Donald Trump dodged the draft on five separate occasions and avoided military service at every opportunity. While the Vietnam War that would claim the lives of some 58,000 of his countrymen raged, Trump received a series of deferments so that he could attend college at Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
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Trump crosses the 9/11 line
‘If it doesn't backfire, then it will be official; nothing can stop him,’ GOP strategist says. By Eli Stokols. (Feb. 14)
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America's unlearned lesson: the forgotten truth about why we invaded Iraq
Perhaps the tensest moment in Saturday's Republican presidential debate came when Donald Trump finally said something so outrageous that the other candidates onstage and even the debate audience closed ranks against him. Here is what Trump did: He accused George W. Bush of launching the Iraq War based on a lie...
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Why Evangelicals Won’t Save Ted Cruz
The religious voters Cruz was counting on are ditching the Bible thumper for Donald Trump. By Tina Nguyen.
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Donald Trump calls for a boycott of Apple products
At a rally today in South Carolina, Donald Trump called for a boycott of Apple products in response to the company's current legal standoff with the FBI. Currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump was speaking at a rally in advance of tomorrow's South Carolina primary. "First of all, Apple ought to give the security for that phone," Trump told a crowd of supporters. "What I think you ought to do is boycott...
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Pope Vs. Trump Isn't a New Phenomenon
Many years ago, when Oliver North was running for the Senate from Virginia, I received a call from a reporter. She told me that some church groups in the commonwealth were praying for North’s election. Then she asked if their behavior violated the separation of church and state. I explained to her that as separationism is a rule of constitutional law, only the state and not the church can violate it. My answer got on her nerves.
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The best predictor of Trump support isn't income, education, or age. It's authoritarianism.
When political scientists use the term authoritarianism, we are not talking about dictatorships but about a worldview. People who score high on the authoritarian scale value conformity and order, protect social norms, and are wary of outsiders. And when authoritarians feel threatened, they support aggressive leaders and policies.
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Trump's victories aren't mysterious if you understand why people are angry
Donald Trump’s victory in the Nevada Republican caucus wasn’t even a close one; he reportedly led in practically every demographic (and listed them in his victory speech). Evangelicals, young, old, Hispanics, the highly educated and “the poorly educated” they all loved him on Tuesday night. Hispanics? Yes, even Hispanics, even after that line about “drugs and rapists”. And though establishment toffs like to issue signifying snorts about Trump voters being predominantly “poorly educated”...
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How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever. The first thing you notice at Donald Trump's rallies is the confidence. Amateur psychologists have wishfully diagnosed him from afar as insecure, but in person the notion seems absurd. Donald Trump, insecure? We should all have such problems.
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How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever. By Matt Taibbi.
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