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Class Warfare: Mayoral Candidate Cory Briggs Talks Donor Class vs. Voter Class
Class Warfare: Mayoral Candidate Cory Briggs Talks Donor Class vs. Voter Class
San Diego, Calif.- If the media wanted a dash of spice for the 2020 San Diego Mayoral race, enter Cory Briggs. A consistent critic of City Hall who has had success suing the city, Briggs has anno ...
24 Jan, 2019
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5 min read
Women’s March: What’s That Word? Intersectionalism?
Women’s March: What’s That Word? Intersectionalism?
You may have heard the story. In late December, it came out that leaders of the Women’s March made anti-Jewish remarks and had ties Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam. You can see the ...
23 Jan, 2019
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5 min read
Frayed Wires: As California enters a brave new energy world, can it keep the lights on?
Frayed Wires: As California enters a brave new energy world, can it keep the lights on?
Gretchen Bakke thinks a lot about power—the kind that sizzles through a complex grid of electrical stations, poles, lines and transformers, keeping the lights on for tens of millions of Californians w ...
17 Jan, 2019
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9 min read
Baby, It’s Cold Inside
Baby, It’s Cold Inside
I watched the TV coverage of the opening session of the 116th Congress and was happy to see all the inspired women in jewel-toned dresses, many young, some of color, taking their places...
09 Jan, 2019
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7 min read
OPINION: To Clean Up The Environment, We Must First Clean Up Our Politics
OPINION: To Clean Up The Environment, We Must First Clean Up Our Politics
In these times of mounting national and international crisis --  from poverty to climate change -- a lesson that emerges from studying how liberal democracies fail is condensed in a few words not ...
03 Jan, 2019
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3 min read
#MakeAmericaDebateAgain: A Stronger, Healthier Republic Requires Open Debates
#MakeAmericaDebateAgain: A Stronger, Healthier Republic Requires Open Debates
It’s 2019 and the United States of America still has a democracy problem.A few powerful studies have summed it up differently, but the heart of the problem is that despite Lincoln’s claim that we ever ...
02 Jan, 2019
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7 min read
Two Reasons to be Cheerful About Lobbyists
Two Reasons to be Cheerful About Lobbyists
In December, I wrote an article on a particularly egregious case of the famous legislative "revolving door." After sixteen years in the South Dakota Legislature, Senator Deb Peters announced her resig ...
02 Jan, 2019
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5 min read
Tulsi Gabbard Says She's “Thinking Through Very Carefully” 2020 Bid
Tulsi Gabbard Says She's “Thinking Through Very Carefully” 2020 Bid
It is unclear whether or not voters can expect a slow political news cycle in the final of 2018. Congress was expected to pass a temporary funding bill that would kick the can down the road another fe ...
21 Dec, 2018
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5 min read
U.S. Kills 62 Somalians in Another Airstrike Without Congressional Approval
U.S. Kills 62 Somalians in Another Airstrike Without Congressional Approval
62 Somalians were killed in four U.S. precision airstrikes over the weekend, the U.S. military said in a statement Monday.Nobody knows the identities of the 62 people who were killed, but just as it n ...
17 Dec, 2018
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3 min read
Senate Votes to End U.S. Saudi Alliance Against Yemen's Houthis
Senate Votes to End U.S. Saudi Alliance Against Yemen's Houthis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In defiance of President Donald Trump, who has taken a barrage of criticism from Republicans and Democrats for standing by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman after the murder of ...
14 Dec, 2018
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3 min read