Pete Buttigieg speaks with members of the media on March 1 in Plains, Georgia.
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Research on stigma and discrimination – and LGBTQ people’s own stories – can help Americans make sense of Pete Buttigieg’s historic candidacy.
What message is Attorney General William Barr sending citizens in defying court order?
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Could defiance of court orders at the highest level undermine the Constitution’s authority in the eyes of American citizens?
House Democrats have more tools up their sleeves than impeachment alone.
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The Constitution provides Congress with plenty of tools to hold the White House to account. So what moves does the legislative branch have left?
Brokered conventions are a cloak-and-dagger affair. Just ask Henry Clay.
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Some Democrats are fearing chaos at the convention if no candidate meets the nomination threshold. History suggests they are right to be concerned.
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Different types of rule-breaking leaders can appeal to transgressive parts of ourselves.
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Post-truth questions the very nature of truth itself – that’s why it’s so dangerous.
Qasem Soleimani pictured in 2018.
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The Trump administration is only the latest to push the boundaries of the law to take out foreign adversaries.
Withe the impeachment vote passing the House of Representatives, Donald Trump will now face a trial in the Senate.
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In the Trump era, one crisis – even one as grave as impeachment – is simply replaced by another. In more tranquil times such crises may spell the end of a presidency – but not so in the age of Trump.
To some, White House aide Jennifer Williams and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman are impartial truth-tellers; to others, they are power-hungry bureaucrats.
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Public officials are now in the spotlight: Does the public view them as professionals, bound by duty, or as elites who invoke ideals while pursuing their own agendas?
Abortion rights advocates wear pink shirts while opponents wear red at a public hearing in Boston.
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The Hyde Amendment bans federal abortion funding for most people.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi poses with Rep. Katie Hill and her husband, Kenny Heslep, in January 2019.
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Just as domestic violence was once misunderstood and tolerated, many today fail to grasp how nude photographs can be wielded as weapons of abuse.
Democratic candidate frontrunner Elizabeth Warren’s signature policy proposal is to tax the rich.
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Other measures might raise as much as her proposed wealth tax, but Democratic front-runner Elizabeth Warren likes big gestures.
Canada’s Christian right is largely isolated, and has little of the clout of evangelicals south of the border.
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While they’re not going away, evangelicals and social conservatives in Canada are distinctly different from the American Christian right.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads a Congressional delegation to Ireland in April 2019.
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Northern Ireland looms even larger an issue for Brexit as US Irish Americans wield influence.
Protestors make their voices heard in New York City following Donald Trump’s 2016 election.
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In Trump’s America, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and scope of the First Amendment.
Of Jennifer Silva’s sample of 108 working-class people, over two-thirds didn’t even vote in the 2016 election.
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A sociologist spent over a year interviewing black, white and Latino residents of a declining coal town in central Pennsylvania, plumbing the sources of their political disillusionment.
Ten presidential candidates debate on July 30. Marianne Williamson, Tim Ryan, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O'Rourke, John Hickenlooper, John Delaney, Steve Bullock.
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The winner will set the course of America for years to come.
Democrats are frustrated that Robert Mueller did not make a clear-cut case for impeaching President Donald Trump.
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While some have seen Mueller’s testimony as a disappointment, Democrats may still initiate impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump in the House of Representatives.
Joe Biden is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
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Joe Biden remains the favourite in the Democratic race - but there are question marks over whether he can beat Donald Trump.
Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back at the president’s tweets.
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President Donald Trump has appealed to his base by attacking four Democratic Congresswomen of colour.