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Why We Worry: RT @joshtpm: Trump: The grocery store will float you the food on credit until the shutdown is over. That's how it works. https://t.co/3oSNt… -
Why We Worry: .@morningmika said today that Democrats should give Trump the money for his wall. They should "go high" and "seek c… https://t.co/nKhckKD3LF
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Why We Worry: RT @ReichlinMelnick: Here's how the "compromise" bill shreds our asylum laws: 1. Bans asylum for all Central American Minors (including th… -
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Why We Worry: RT @amyfiscus: NEW: The FBI began investigating whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia after he fired Comey. Mueller took o… -
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Why We Worry: I'm gonna need C-SPAN Prime to follow all of the checks and balances action in 2019. #116thCongress #SpeakerPelosi
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Why We Worry: RT @SwedeofNorfolk: @PreetBharara @theNFLton I will shut down the government I am proud to shut down the government I will be the one to… -
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Why We Worry: Cracks are widening between Trump and the GOP Senate. This article has rare public criticism of the president from… https://t.co/wPrldAE7wQ
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Why We Worry: "So long as Mattis stayed on the job, Republicans in Congress could indulge the hope that responsible people remain… https://t.co/MIv4bkX3XD
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Why We Worry: RT @Elizabeth_McLau: Defense Secretary James Mattis has resigned. Here’s the letter: https://t.co/e2PulyXpXZ
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Author Archives: Clint
Adding Obama’s Electoral Votes
Why We Worry / Prognostications Desk Media reporting tends inexplicably to focus on national poll numbers, when the race will ultimately be decided by state-level votes in a half dozen or so battlegrounds. The national numbers are useful only for assessing a candidate’s general level of support, which might maybe possibly help predict how toss-up […]
Can Obama win North Carolina?
Why We Worry / Raleigh-Durham Bureau After favoring Republican presidential candidates for seven consecutive elections, North Carolina – in a surprise result – voted for President Obama in 2008. He won by less than 14,000 votes. But Mitt Romney is currently leading the polls in this battleground state. Though Obama’s deficit has been low (generally […]
Greased with cash and covered by paint
By Daniel H. Why We Worry / Middle America Bureau For at least the last four or five years (longer if you’re a natural pessimist or a good prognosticator), the most important question in America has been What Went Wrong? People felt like they understood what their deal in life was, what the rules of […]
Does funding make candidates win, or do winning candidates get the funding?
Mitt Romney holds a commanding position in the GOP primary, despite acerbic opposition among Republican activists to his centrist record and near-universal distaste for his character among anyone who’s ever seen him or heard him speak. It often seems that Romney – who, with $250 million in personal worth, is easily the richest in the […]
The next bubble: student loan debt
Students graduating college last year owed a record amount in loans. Compared to five years ago, borrowing has increased 20% to an average bill of $25,250. The rise in borrowing is unsurprising considering that, while American wages have generally stagnated, tuition has swelled. For instance, under the most optimistic projection, the University of California system […]
Green on green crime
Daniel H. works in renewable energy development in the Houston area. He studied at Rice University and researched energy policy in Denmark as a Fulbright Scholar. If you were driving from L.A. to Phoenix, and you happened to look left a few minutes after driving through Barstow, C.A., you would see an open expanse of […]
Move the ‘Mosque’
The majority of Americans oppose construction of the Islamic community center near the former World Trade Center. While they acknowledge its right to exist, they would prefer it not to. They consider it callous to build an Islamic site near the scene of a crime perpetrated in the name of Islam. Their opposition has been dismissed […]
Highlights from British inquiry into Iraq war
The UK’s public inquiry into the Iraq war (the “Chilcot Inquiry“) has featured testimony from major figures at the time of the invasion and has further strengthened criticism of the war on multiple fronts. Testimony affirms that pre-war intelligence did not paint Saddam Hussein as a threat, that the coalition had decided to wage war […]
Ahmadinejad Proposes Debate with Obama
“We are ready to sit down with Mr .Obama face-to-face, and put the global issues on the table, man-to-man, freely, and in front of the media and see whose solutions are better,” Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday. His country has been the target of a series of U.N. sanctions, most recently in June, because […]
Inside Howard Zinn’s FBI File
The FBI released 423 pages Friday from its secret file on Howard Zinn – a leading figure on the Progressive Left best known as the author of A People’s History of the United States. Zinn was actively involved in civil rights and anti-war movements until his death in January of this year. In the files, […]