I never planned to spend this much time thinking about Kyrsten Sinema, the Democratic senator from Arizona. She wasn’t on my radar back in 2003, when she was a spokeswoman for the Green Party and dressed up in a pink tutu to protest the Iraq War. Or in 2011, when the Phoenix New Times named …
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DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. – This is the second in a two-part series on school board politics in Denver suburbs. Part 1 A slate of political novices in Douglas County, Colorado, told Fox News that divisive school board politics and COVID-19 protocols prompted them to put their names on the ballot for next month’s school board …
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In March, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Axios’ Jonathan Swan that former President Donald Trump “could make the Republican Party something that nobody else I know can make it,” adding: “He can make it bigger. He can make it stronger. He can make it more diverse. And he also could destroy it.” The interview is …
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Imagine learning from the local news that your son or brother, a paratrooper in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, is dead. For one family in California, that was just the beginning. The shock and confusion only worsened as the military opened — and then closed — a probe into the …
Submitted by Phil Bryant and Arne Duncan High achievement and graduation rates is something every politician and American can rally behind Nothing brings political opponents together quite like a shared goal — and no goal is more universally agreed-upon than offering high-quality education to every child in America. Unfortunately, when it comes to education, we …
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Yesterday, in Part 2, we covered two explicit ways to profit from journalism and campaign trends. Today, we’ll focus on the theater and casting of Missouri’s battle royals. 9. Most everything in Missouri politics can be explained through a pro wrestling lens. There’s kayfabe — the official, suspend-your-disbelief storyline you see on your TV …
The Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol raised important questions about the influence of social media, online misinformation and hate speech. For Ian Bremmer, founder and president of the political risk consultancy the Eurasia Group, the event showed how the growing power and influence of tech companies are starting to overshadow the influence of …
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The rise and fall of Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz is a case study in faking it as the means of making it. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N othing succeeds like success, says the proverb. And if you don’t have the real thing, fake success can do in a pinch. For a long time, it was standard …
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The people of Texas’s Rio Grande Valley are fiercely proud of their dual Mexican-U.S. heritage. “I don’t think that the rest of the country knows just who we are down here in the Valley,” Xavier Villarreal, a rancher, says. “We’re the greatest American people that can ever exist because we identify ourselves as Americans. We’re …
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At a corn maze and pumpkin patch in northern Virginia this month, former Carlyle chief executive Glenn Youngkin set out his stall. Dressed in a Nantucket red fleece vest, navy khaki trousers and a white collared shirt, the private equity boss turned politician confidently told hundreds of supporters that next month, he would be elected …