We’ve already got a Dictator-in-Chief: How absolute power corrupted the President
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Any presidential candidate who promises to be a dictator on day one, if elected, will be a dictator-in-chief for life.
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Lawrence S. Wittner: Replacing a disastrous war with a just peace in Ukraine
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Although the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has captured the world’s horrified attention, the war in Ukraine has had even more terrible consequences.
Bob Good elected chair of House Freedom Caucus: Analysis of 2024 impact
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Virginia Republican Bob Good is the new chair of the House Freedom Caucus, elected on Monday amid some controversy within the far-right caucus.
Kamala Harris breaks second Senate record with tie-breaking vote for judicial nominee
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America’s first woman vice president and first black vice president set another record by breaking the most tie votes in the Senate as VP.
Analysis: Does Northrop Grumman come to Waynesboro if Jim Wood is still podcasting?
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The big local economy news is that Northrop Grumman is going to be building a $200 million facility in Waynesboro that will bring more than 300 jobs paying an average of just a tick under $100,000 a year.
Lawrence Wittner: Billionaires in China, U.S. have much in common
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In recent decades, a growing similarity has developed between the Chinese and U.S. economic systems. Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s talk of “socialism,” the rapidly-expanding Chinese economy has become increasingly capitalist.
Poll: Democrats support Palestinians in Gaza, Republicans side with Russians in Ukraine
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Democratic voters lean more to supporting Palestinians in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Republicans don’t want more aid to go to Ukraine, so by extension, they’re more in the camp of Russia in that one.
Poll: Democrats, independents want more (read: better) choices for president
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There’s a whole lot of people running for president. A new Quinnipiac University poll says most of us don’t like any of what we’ve been seeing so far.
Retired Army Col. Eugene Vindman announces run for Seventh District seat in Congress
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Eugene Vindman will seek the Democratic Party nomination in the Seventh District, the seat currently held by Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who is not running for re-election as she prepares a run for governor.
Bob Topper: New House Speaker Mike Johnson has us heartbeats away from a theocracy
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What does it mean to US democracy that Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House, third in line of succession to be President of the United States of America?
