Politics Archive
Archives for October 2015
There were lots of problems with the portrayal of the Senate in the Star Wars prequels, but the worst was the lack of parties.
Jeb Bush’s comments came off as tone-deaf, while President Obama’s revisited old arguments. Good rhetoric resonates and shakes things up.
His argument fundamentally misunderstands conservatives’ beliefs.
A top-secret Chinese communist military project led Tu Youyou to the Nobel Prize for medicine.
Her greatest weakness is also her greatest strength.
Clinton doesn’t want voters to forget what Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said about the investigation and presidential politics.
“This nightmare might never have happened if legislation that is before Congress now — the Brady bill — had been law back in 1981.”
A compromise over pharmaceuticals allowed President Obama to reach an agreement with 11 other nations on a massive trade agreement.
Hint: some really troubling anti-Muslim politics.
“As we’ve seen over the past 15 years with same-sex marriage, such deep cultural change is difficult — and possible.”
The US strikes that killed 12 health workers and 10 patients were no aberration. This is the strategy we’ve chosen, and not just in Afghanistan.
The biggest sticking point in negotiations had to do with data sharing around the world’s most expensive medicines.
Barack Obama, John McCain, and John Kerry all weren’t handpicked by the party.
Stop blaming mental illness for shootings if you won’t do anything about it.