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11/25/2019
Trump's Official Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement Mirrors George W. Bush's Exit from Kyoto Protocol
by Mark Detlor
The United States has a long history of being hesitent to match other western nation's commitment to the climate.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/17/2019
Joe Biden isn’t the only Democrat who has blamed black America for its problems
by Marcia Chatelain
Well-meaning liberals have long failed to recognize their own role in systems of oppression.
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SOURCE: NYT
2-17-18
Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in Elections. We Do It, Too.
“We’ve been doing this kind of thing since the C.I.A. was created in 1947,” said Mr. Johnson, the dean of American intelligence scholars, who began his career in the 1970s investigating the C.I.A. as a staff member of the Senate’s Church Committee.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3-14-17
Russian interventions in other people’s elections: A brief history
by Eric Lohr
Americans are shocked Russia meddled in our election. But there's centuries of precedent – and, at times, it’s been the U.S. meddling.
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SOURCE: CNN
10-31-15
So, who really won in 2000?
What the Bush v. Gore studies showed
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
1-14-15
Take Heart, Also-Rans: These Presidents Needed Multiple Tries to Get Elected
Here's a historical reminder that persistence sometimes pays.
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