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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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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