At around 1 p.m. ET in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday, protest puppeteer Elliot Crown twirled a paper mache planet over a bed of flames, playing a silent violin. Around him, a neon-dotted crowd gathered next to the Plaza Hotel to protest the collapse of life on Earth. Numbers soon swelled …
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wins this round. After a week of sending letters back and forth debating whether the State of the Union address will be delivered as planned while the government remains shut down,the president tweeted on Wednesday that he will respect Pelosi’s “prerogative” to decline to open …
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There’s no end in sight for the longest government shutdown in American history. President Trump and congressional Democrats have dug in to the point that some senior Republicans close to the White House have said the only way it’s ending is through some sort of external disaster, like TSA employees …
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Bad news for anyone who had hopes of enjoying a few rancor-free months of 2019 before the presidential-election insanity begins. Not only is the race fully on, we’re already in our third or fourth toxic electoral narrative — the most recent involving that most infamous campaign cliché, “electability.” The target …
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A month to the day after firing Jeff Sessions, President Trump has announced his pick for U.S. attorney general. “I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating The Honorable William P. Barr for the position of Attorney General of the United States,” he tweeted Friday morning. “As the …
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