politics
Arkansas’ capital city elects black mayor for first time
December 5, 2018A banking executive and former highway commissioner became the first African-American elected to lead Arkansas’ capital six decades after it was the center of a school desegregation crisis.
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HIV/AIDS epidemic testifies to the problematic presidency of George H.W. Bush
December 5, 2018We continue to pay today for what the former president did not do as the AIDS epidemic first began sweeping across the nation.
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MLB to vet campaign contributions more carefully
November 28, 2018Major League Baseball will put in place new procedures for vetting political contributions after giving $5,000 to Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican senator from Mississippi.
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Liar-in-chief Trump never gave a damn about workers
November 27, 2018Trump told workers in the industrial Midwest that if he won no plant would ever shut down. General Motors has put the lie to that claim.
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Centrist politicians denounce “populism” in effort to equate left and right
November 27, 2018It’s not some new populism we are seeing but the return of the big ideological questions about society’s future and of mass politics.
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