New research indicates politics may be a matter of life or death. A study published June 7 by the BMJ examined mortality rates and voting
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New York’s proposed congressional map blasted by GOP, could have national impact
Steve Bittenbender | The Center Square contributor February 1st, 2022 (The Center Square) – New York Republicans are crying foul over a new Congressional map
WHY DO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES KEEP SAYING THEY’RE NOT HACKS?
Because there’s good reason to believe they are. By Jim Hightower | November 3, 2021/Previously published in OtherWords.org Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Ralph Waldo Emerson once
TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Khalil Bendib / OtherWords.org Assorted Ideas, Large & Small A federal indictment against the Trump Organization might be just the beginning of Donald Trump’s future
Op-Ed: Critical race theory is about to face its day(s) in court
John Murawski | RealClearInvestigations/April 27th, 2021 As recently as last summer, few people outside academia had heard of critical race theory, whose central claim is
Faith in numbers: Trump held steady among believers at the ballot – it was the nonreligious vote he lost in 2020
Ryan Burge, Eastern Illinois University For all the predictions and talk of a slump in support among evangelicals, it appears Donald Trump’s election loss was
I Met Chuck Schumer in Union Square, Talked the Filibuster and Joe Manchin
We bumped into Senator Chuck Schumer in Union Square today as he retail politicked his way through the Farmers Market. First impression: He’s shorter than
Women are still less than one-third of Congress and state legislatures, even after two big election cycles
A Republican rebound drove overall gains in 2020, but women are still underrepresented at all legislative levels, according to a new analysis by Rutgers University’s
Debunking the myth of legislative gridlock
President Joe Biden’s US$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan moved steadily through a series of crucial votes in the House and Senate. Its progress toward passage
Donald Trump trips on history, Cites Airplanes in Revolutionary War
President Donald Trump tripped on history in a 4th of July speech, during which he praised airports’ role in the American Revolutionary War.