Ms. Ernst has scrambled to respond. When Mr. Schumer forced a recent vote to bar the Trump administration from arguing to overturn the health care law, Ms. Ernst broke with her party to vote with the Democrats. And she apologized repeatedly for her comment questioning the coronavirus death toll. I…
Early in the second volume of Maus the graphic novel about the Holocaust that made Art Spiegelmans reputation he includes a passage showing the reaction to the publication of volume one. The artist is sitting at his drawing board, perched atop a mountain of dead bodies, as a succession of…
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Texas, unions, and a Green New Deal are three ideas that on the surface seem incompatible. But dig deeper, and its clear thats not the case. In fact, a House race in Texas could well be the template that shows how to meld progressive climate politics and union organizing. Teacher…
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst struggled with an incredibly Midwest gotcha question: She couldn’t correctly state the price of soybeans. A clip of a debate between Ernst and her Democratic challenger, Theresa Greenfield, went viral after the incumbent seemingly struggled to rattle off crop prices. Moderator Ron Steele first asked…
William I. Hitchcock, the William Corcoran Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.” The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. (CNN)The 1950s are often portrayed as a…
LONDON Inua Ellamss plays have been such an enlivening presence on the London stage in recent years that it comes as a particular treat to make contact with the man himself. An Evening With an Immigrant, a solo play written and performed by Ellams, a London-based Nigerian author, allows us…
Candidates own cases of the virus have created all sorts of uncertainty for political races, yanking campaigns off the trail and into quarantine during crucial weeks and confounding political strategists, who have little precedent to lean on as they try to figure out how voters will respond. In North Carolina,…
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Fourteen years after television political drama The West Wing shut down its White House set, the show is back with its idealized version of a U.S. president and a mission to get Americans to the polls on Nov. 3 to choose a real…
