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2024年11月19日 · Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP (sometimes referred to as food stamps) equaling the amount necessary to cover that budget shortfall would affect around 70 million Americans with lower incomes, according to the report by the Post, which cited anonymous sources with knowledge of the discussions.. Nothing has been finalized, the Post emphasized, but the discussions indicate a willingness by many in the ...

2024年11月20日 · Chief among the president-elect’s controversial picks is former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was nominated for attorney general despite being investigated by the Justice Department and the House Ethics Committee over allegations that he paid to have sex with a 17-year-old girl, which he denies. Trump also chose former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of ...

2024年8月26日 · In this interview, Miller Karalunas explains the mandatory duty of election officials to certify the results. She details what would happen if the 2024 election results are not certified by the constitutional cut-off date, the legal remedies available to protect certification of the results of the election, and whether the strategies of the election deniers to undermine the outcome could be ...

2022年7月14日 · As Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit have reported, democracy is losing ground around the world as more people betray a liking for authoritarian leaders. The most recent examples of this global trend can be found in the rise of Donald Trump in the U.S., Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Philippines and Narendra Modi in India, among others.

2024年9月11日 · Harris had clearly been coached, to devastating effect, on how to bait Trump into saying the most obnoxious things possible, the sorts of things that independent voters will cringe on hearing and that even many Republicans will realize shouldn’t be coming from the mouth of a man who seeks the world’s most powerful position.

2024年10月28日 · Over 1,000 authors and literary industry workers have signed a letter vowing to boycott any Israeli literary institutions that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and occupation of Palestine, in an effort that organizers say …

2024年11月7日 · Control of the House is still up in the air, with the outcome hinging on just a handful of races in competitive purple districts. While both parties are declaring that they are likely to win a majority, it’s still not clear which will come out on top. Republicans currently have a slight advantage, having flipped three seats to the Democrats’ two, …

2024年11月10日 · This election cycle was defined — yet again — by Donald Trump’s fearmongering over immigration. Like his previous two campaigns for president, Trump fueled a racist panic over “migrant crime” and capitalized on people’s fears over economic insecurity by scapegoating immigrants for all of the U.S.’s problems, including but not limited to the housing crisis, opioid crisis and ...

2023年5月21日 · Scholars are currently tracking fascist movements in India, Hungary, Brazil, the Philippines, Russia and the U.S., among others. In each of these places, fascism has different qualities. What they have in common is that these movements seek to take over all aspects of public and private life and to eliminate people and communities who …