Veteran journalist Eric Black writes Eric Black Ink for MinnPost. His latest award is from the Society of Professional Journalists, which in May 2017 announced he’d won the national Sigma Delta Chi Award for online column writing. Email him at eblack@minnpost.com.
Republicans and conservatives have taken to labeling as “socialists” many liberal political figures who do not call themselves by that term. Here’s what happened when a liberal suggested Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is a fascist.
The change seems to have been driven substantially by the Dobbs ruling that overturned the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion.
Harvard-based political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol tells The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey the movement is a metaphor for something else.
Cheney, who is 10 times more conservative than Donald Trump and 100 times more honest, never flinched from her duty.
Ida Mae Fuller received the very first Social Security benefit and ended up living until she was 100 years old.
Americans have grown more open to the idea since the question was first asked in 1939.
Boston University historian Heather Cox Richardson reminds us Nixon “never did admit wrongdoing, and he was never held accountable.”
The Electoral College system has almost nothing going for it and introduces many unnecessary flaws and distortions into our poor, dear old nation’s effort to choose a leader.
And neither will the sickness in the Republican Party disappear with the former president.
Personally, I doubt they would have faced treason charges. More likely some form of election fraud, which is nonetheless a felony.
The New York Times columnist considers the 2022 Arizona U.S. Senate contest.
Tim Walz was included, after nine likelier contenders each got their own paragraph, in a collective 10th ranking with Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (who is currently running for Senate in Ohio).
I wouldn’t get carried away with this. But it’s encouraging that the group that best represents the presidential swing vote has moved steadily in favor of holding Trump accountable.
“The Ukrainians have to demonstrate resolution of every kind. All [Americans] have to do to see things as they are, show some patience, and support the democracy that is under attack — with the right attitude, and the right weapons.”
Conventional wisdom always held that, even if Biden doesn’t plan on a 2024, he should postpone saying so, in order to avoid lame-duck status any sooner than he must.
If one party controls the state, its political manipulators are expected to design district boundaries once every decade to maximize their party’s ultimate yield.
The Gallup Poll has been tracking confidence, and lack of it, in the news media since 1972.
The poll shows an impressively close division on the question of which preference for which party should control Congress in 2023-24 (Dems 41; Repubs 40).
It’s how Republicans, mainly, have successfully rigged the game of judicial nominees — with a little help from the Electoral College.
Many admirers of the former president have reverted to the Trumpian explanations of what occurred that terrible day.
