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Hillary Clinton’s push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics
“I’m going to speak out against the uncontrollable use of guns in our country because I believe we can do better,” Clinton said Tuesday in Iowa City.
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Two Charts Show the Biggest Difference Between Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush
Follow the money.
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Walker prematurely tweets presidential announcement
It's no secret that Walker will enter the 2016 presidential race in Wisconsin on Monday afternoon
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Jeb and the Nation of Takers
Maybe we were unfair to Mitt Romney; Jeb “people should work longer hours” Bush is making him look like a model of empathy for the less fortunate. All the obvious points apply: longer hours would mean more GDP (if and when the economy ever gets back to full employment), but not necessarily better lives, especially if the increase in GDP doesn’t trickle down.
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The Laziness Dogma
Mr. Bush’s aides have tried to spin away his remark, claiming that he was only referring to workers trying to find full-time jobs who remain stuck in part-time employment. It’s obvious from the context, however, that this wasn’t what he was talking about.
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Voting restrictions in the US since the 2010 election: state by state
Twenty-one US states have put in place new restrictions on voting over the past five years and many legal battles are still taking place in the run-up to 2016
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Scott Walker Joins Race as Fighter for the Right
In joining the 2016 presidential campaign, he promises to bring to the U.S. the brand of tough-minded conservative politics that drove his rise in Wisconsin.
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Ted Cruz loses his wingnut welfare: How the New York Times smacked down a decades-old conservative racket
For years, Republicans have been artificially manufacturing best-selling books — but Cruz took it one step too far
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Spontaneous Bernie Sanders Rally Breaks Out at Comic-Con
A graphic artist reportedly started a spontaneous rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders outside this year's Comic-Con convention.
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Hillary Clinton’s Glass-Steagall
Hillary Clinton won’t propose reinstating a bank break-up law known as the Glass-Steagall Act – at least according to Alan Blinder, an economist who has been advising Clinton’s campaign. “You’re not...
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Only 3 Percent of Jeb Bush's Campaign Cash Came From Small Donors
The average size of a Bush donation: $926.
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Campaigns shatter spending records
The crowded field of 2016 presidential candidates spent $48 million through the first half of the year — nearly twice as much as their counterparts had at this point in the 2012 cycle — reflecting the new realities of fast, expensive campaign launches.The dramatic spending spike — detailed in Wednesday’s reports to the Federal Election Commission covering the beginning of April through the end of June — was underwritten mostly by fewer donors, each giving more money.
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Down With The Confederate Flag, Up With Donald Trump!
I’ve never seen anything that lays bare the core lineaments of conservatism so neatly: there is our tribe, which is good, true, and pure; and there are those other tribes, who are existential threats to you and me (Reagan’s favorite phrase), and must be suppressed in order for good to be preserved. “We” all know this, even if “they” don’t allow us to say this.
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Black votes matter: the North Carolina electors who say new law is unfair
The day the US supreme court relaxed oversight of its voting procedures, North Carolina passed a law critics say discriminates against the poor and non-white
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Bernie Sanders has raised more money than every GOP campaign so far. But there’s a catch.
Amazingly enough, long-shot presidential contender Bernie Sanders has raised more money for his campaign than any Republican has in the first half of this year. His team says 250,000 donors have given to the Sanders campaign so far — which goes to show that the Vermont senator has a very broad base of small-donor support.
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Two Americas: Hillary Clinton and Scott Walker have utterly different visions for our future.
On Monday, if you were paying attention, you caught a glimpse of our ultrapolarized future. Specifically, you saw two speeches from two candidates on opposite ends of the ideological divide. First was Hillary Clinton’s marquee speech on the economy, in which after months of silence, she addressed a major question of her candidacy: Was she committed to the neoliberal path of her husband’s administration and her first campaign, or would she follow the progressive economic zeitgeis?
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North Korea elections not too close to call
North Koreans went to the polls yesterday in what was probably the world's most pointless election.
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#BernieSoBlack: why progressives are fighting about Bernie Sanders and race
Sanders' Netroots Nation appearance at a town hall Saturday afternoon turned into a confrontation with #BlackLivesMatter activists — and brought a conflict between Sanders-loving economic progressives on one side, and organizers for racial justice on the other, out into the open. But while Sanders is the catalyst, the conflict — at least as Sanders' critics see it — isn't really about whether to support Sanders or Hillary Clinton for the 2016 nomination.
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This GOP presidential candidate actually believes in climate change. But he doesn't want to fix it.
"I happen to believe there is a problem with climate change," he told the Hill 2012. "I don't want to overreact to it, I can't measure it all, but I respect the creation that the Lord has given us and I want to make sure we protect it." He made a similar statement in the video above, taken at a conference last month, but he added that the environment shouldn't be "worshipped," because that would be "pantheism."
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Here's who is bankrolling the top presidential candidates
The 2016 presidential election is still 16 months away, but the fundraising push is in high gear, given that the winner may need $1 billion or more to win the White House. Candidates and groups supporting them are likely to spend the most money ever in a presidential campaign, partly because the Faustian innovation known as super PACs allows rich donors to give unlimited amounts to groups affiliated with candidates they support.
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