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.
“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.
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.
But will the June numbers hold up until midterm elections in November?
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.
They don’t make movies lionizing George Armstrong Custer any more, a small step in acknowledging the historical crime.
“The President’s lie was — and is — a dangerous cancer on the body politic,” testified Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat.
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.
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.
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.
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 that make America exceptional, and not in a good way.”
Seeing Putin’s aggression through European eyes.
“Police on Trial” features many of the Star Tribune reporters who worked on the story for the paper.
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.”
