Friday, April 26

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Trump Will Still Be Able To Run In 2024 And Serve As President If Elected – Even If Jan. 6 Referrals Turn Into Criminal Charges – Or Convictions
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POLITICS

Trump Will Still Be Able To Run In 2024 And Serve As President If Elected – Even If Jan. 6 Referrals Turn Into Criminal Charges – Or Convictions

The criminal referral of Donald Trump to the Department of Justice by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is largely symbolic – the panel itself has no power to prosecute any individual. Nonetheless, the recommendation that Trump be investigated for four potential crimes – obstructing an official proceeding; conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to make a false statement; and inciting, assisting or aiding or comforting an insurrection – raises the prospect of an indictment, or even a conviction, of the former president. It also poses serious ethical questions, given that Trump has already announced a 2024 run for the presidency, especially in regards to the referral over his alleged inciting or assisting an insurrection. Indeed, a Department of Justice investi...
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The Anarchy – One Of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books Of The Year
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BOOKS

The Anarchy – One Of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books Of The Year

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR "Superb … A vivid and richly detailed story … worth reading by everyone." -The New York Times Book Review. From the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country. In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the cours...
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Suburbia Is No Longer All White President Trump — And Black Suburbanites Are More Politically Active Than Their Neighbors
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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Suburbia Is No Longer All White President Trump — And Black Suburbanites Are More Politically Active Than Their Neighbors

President Donald Trump has tweeted up a storm about how his Democratic challenger Joe Biden wants to “abolish suburbs” and institute programs that would bring impoverished criminals into the suburbs, where they will destroy the “suburban lifestyle dream.” In the final stages of his campaign, Trump has made an explicit appeal to suburban women: “So can I ask you to do me a favor? Suburban women, will you please like me? I saved your damn neighborhood,” the president said at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in mid-October. I am a political scientist who studies race in America’s suburbs; my book “African Americans in White Suburbia: Social Networks and Political Behavior” was published in 2017. I contend that Trump’s tweets are not about the actual suburbs. Instead, they are meant to e...
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Why the US still hasn’t had a woman president
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Journalism, POLITICS

Why the US still hasn’t had a woman president

Estonia, Singapore, Ethiopia and Finland – these are some of the 21 countries currently governed by a female president or prime minister. Yet a woman president of the U.S. still remains only a hypothetical. The 2020 Democratic nomination contest originally featured six women candidates, a record number. But the most prominent female candidates for the Democratic nomination – Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar – have all dropped out, and the focus of the race has narrowed to two males. My research examines what countries where women run the government have in common – and why the U.S. still lags behind. Where women lead Since 2000, 89 women have newly come to power. That’s more than double the total number of women who entered office between 1960 and 1999. Women’s greater...
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How Will We Rebuild The United States After President Trump Is Gone
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Journalism

How Will We Rebuild The United States After President Trump Is Gone

Can we rebuild the United States after President Trump is gone? And how would we do it? It’s a good question, and it’s looking more important as new evidence of his criminality emerges on what feels like a near-daily basis. You would be forgiven if watching the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump last week left you with the feeling that the constitutional system of government is on life support. Even acknowledging that Trump is corrupt and guilty of everything he’s charged with, it’s disheartening to watch Senate Republicans twist themselves into knots to justify a craven vote to not call any witnesses or see any evidence for a trial in which they’re supposed to be impartial jurors. But if there’s anything consistent about Trump, it’s that he doesn’t see the U.S. as an example o...
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Journalism

Chicago police chief to skip Trump’s first visit as president

The move is the latest in a long contentious relationship between the president and the city, a Democratic stronghold. His spokesman said Johnson will be hosting and attending several other events at the conference [File: Teresa Crawford/AP] President Donald Trump's appearance next week at a police chiefs conference will be his first visit as president to Chicago, a city he has ridiculed for years. The city's top cop plans to skip the speech, even though he is hosting the event. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson's apparent snub of Trump's speech on Monday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference is the latest chapter in a long and contentious relationship between the Republican president and the nation's third-largest cit...
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Stupid Son Of A B*tch’: David Letterman UNLOADS His Comedic Savagery On President ‘Trumpy’
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CELEBRITIES

Stupid Son Of A B*tch’: David Letterman UNLOADS His Comedic Savagery On President ‘Trumpy’

During a recent interview with Vulture, former Late Show host David Letterman didn’t pull any punches when talking about one of his favorite political punching bags, President Donald Trump. In the interview, Letterman opines about all the jokes he could have made about “Trumpy” had he not decided to retire from his late-night talk show. When asked about his feelings about how late-night shows are now using the power of social media to reach their audience, Letterman acknowledged that it could be a “useful tool.” But the idea of Twitter: Trumpy — my son, Harry, and I call him ‘Trumpy’ — has really got something with it. Rather than a laughable expression of ego run amok, it could be a useful tool,” Letterman said. “If we get a president sometime soon who does not have a mental d...
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Automation Impacts President Trump Bringing Manufacturing Jobs Back To The US
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Journalism

Automation Impacts President Trump Bringing Manufacturing Jobs Back To The US

When Donald Trump ran for President of the United States, he ran on a platform to bring jobs back from overseas. Trump believes that the only reason why the United States lost manufacturing jobs to overseas is because the United States government forced the American people to compete with those of another country. In other words, the government decided to trade with low production cost countries, which hurt the American people in the long run. However, it's President Trump's goal to fix the "mess" caused by previous administration. While it seems like President Trump has the best intentions for the American people, it seems like he is missing, or perhaps underestimating a key part of the manufacturing system, automation. Automation refers to the use of automatic machines and equipment f...
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