Why Biden shouldn’t run again — and should tell us that now
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.
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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.
Gerrymandering and partisan division in the U.S., as seen by a British-based paper
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 results are in, and they’re (still) pitiful
The Gallup Poll has been tracking confidence, and lack of it, in the news media since 1972.
The first NYT poll of voter sentiment before midterm elections, with a cautionary note
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).
Let’s make a deal: I’ll give you your U.S. attorney if you give me my judge
It’s how Republicans, mainly, have successfully rigged the game of judicial nominees — with a little help from the Electoral College.
Legitimate protest, riot or insurrection: Republican views of Jan. 6 are shifting
Many admirers of the former president have reverted to the Trumpian explanations of what occurred that terrible day.
Esteemed Gallup Poll has grim report about public confidence in institutions
Just between the 2021 and the 2022 surveys, confidence in the presidency and the Supreme Court went down by the biggest numbers, but police, the military, the medical system and the public schools all took a hit from the previous year’s approval number.
Marist Poll shows 10-point swing toward Democrats since April and after abortion ruling
But will the June numbers hold up until midterm elections in November?
Cassidy Hutchinson further damages Donald Trump’s reputation; your scribe apologizes to former president
The latest testimony makes clear that Trump really wanted to accompany his rioters to the Capitol and had to be physically restrained and dispatched back to the White House to watch the carnage he had inspired.
The Battle of the Little Big Horn, 146 years later
They don’t make movies lionizing George Armstrong Custer any more, a small step in acknowledging the historical crime.
Latest hearing on coup attempt relied heavily on Republican witnesses, including Trump supporter and AZ House Speaker Rusty Bowers
“The President’s lie was — and is — a dangerous cancer on the body politic,” testified Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat.
Eastman’s scheme: arrange for neither Trump nor Biden to win a majority of the electoral votes
If the Electoral College had not produced a majority winner, and if all Republican legislators had backed Trump over Biden, Trump would actually have won a second term even though he lost both the national popular vote and the national electoral vote.
The Jan. 6 committee plumbs the fragile ego that fueled the Capitol attack
Trump’s need to believe — and to convince others — that he had defeated Joe Biden seemed to drive the series of high crimes and misdemeanors he committed in the aftermath of the election.
An impressive opening act for the Jan. 6 committee
With Trump having never acknowledged his 2020 defeat and still hoping to mount a 2024 comeback, the stakes underlying the special committee’s probe are high.
Why making U.S. Senate campaigns all about Roe makes sense
Marshall isn’t just calling for commitments from Democratic Senators to enact Roe into federal law, but also to set aside the normal filibuster rules.
It’s the guns
“It’s the guns that make America exceptional, and not in a good way.”
Understanding how Europe sees Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Seeing Putin’s aggression through European eyes.
The new Frontline-Star Tribune documentary offers a powerful, sobering look at George Floyd’s murder
“Police on Trial” features many of the Star Tribune reporters who worked on the story for the paper.
Do yourself a favor and watch Yamiche Alcindor and Michele Norris discuss race, policing and George Floyd
Alcindor is now the moderator of “Washington Week” on PBS and a Washington correspondent for NBC News. Minneapolis-native Norris currently writes a Washington Post column and was, of course, the long-time host of NPR’s, “All Things Considered.”
Amy Klobuchar, John McCain (who’s dead) and Morgan Freeman: Russia’s very weird ‘black list’
In response to what it called recent “hostile actions taken by Washington,” Russia has banned almost a thousand Americans, some of whom are actually still alive.
