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One Of Deval Patrick’s Appearances Draws Empty Room
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick isn’t exactly starting out on the right foot.
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick isn’t exactly starting out on the right foot.
The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.
Taking a look at the state of the race as Democratic prepare to clash in tonight’s fifth debate.
Chick-Fil-A is ending its charitable giving to organizations that oppose LGBT rights, and conservatives are predictably freaking out.
Bowing to Immense political pressure to pay college athletes will dramatically change the game.
The oldest living former President has some reflections on age and the strains of the office.
Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.
Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.
After coming under attack from within his own party, former Vice-President Joe Biden has changed his position on the Hyde Amendment.
Quietly, Elizabeth Warren has been campaigning and putting out policy proposals while also appearing to gain ground on her closest rival, Bernie Sanders.
The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.
Stacey Abrams, best known for losing the race for Governor of Georgia in 2018, is still apparently thinking of getting in the race. Her chances seem slim at best.
The narrow loser of the Georgia governor’s race has left open the possibility of running for President.
The Supreme Court has agreed to accept a group of cases dealing with the issue of whether or not existing civil rights laws bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.
A confidential agreement has ended a collusion suit filed against the National Football League in 2017.
A death penalty case from Alabama raises First Amendment issues that the Supreme Court chose to brush aside.
A Mississippi law that seeks to ban most abortions after 15 weeks was struck down by a Federal District Court Judge.
The issues are different than in Florida or Arizona, but the Georgia Governor’s race remains unresolved as Stacey Abrams hopes to find enough votes to force the race into a runoff.
Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.
A Georgia County is abandoning a dubious plan that would have closed 2/3 of the county’s polling stations.
Care to guess the demographic makeup of the county?
Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.
In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.
Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.
Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?
The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.
The N.F.L. has come up with a dumb “solution” to a non-existent problem.
If we’re going to have a death penalty, he was its poster boy.
Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.
Johnetta Benton was caught on tape in a 15-minute rant against President Trump’s campaign slogan. She ain’t wrong.
Much of Atlanta city government has been forced to rely on pen and paper this week thanks to a Ransomware attack.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rules that existing civil rights laws bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.
I don’t see how the state legislature making tax decisions on the basis of the public position an company takes is legal under the 14th Amendment.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a major case regarding discrimination based on sexual orientation, but the issue is likely to come up again in the very near future.
Ezekiel Elliott got a legal reprieve late last week, but it may not last for long and it could have a big impact on the fortunes of the Dallas Cowboys.
A legal setback for Ezekiel Elliott and the Dallas Cowboys.
The Las Vegas shooting provides a good opportunity to enact a common sense gun control law that even Second Amendment advocates agree is called for.
The battle over Confederate statues that was resurrected by the violence in Charlottesville is off the front pages, but that doesn’t mean it’s over quite yet.