Our republic is in the throes of a historic constitutional crisis — arguably the most serious since the Civil War. If that was not clear January 20, it’s inescapable now. It’s a complex, multilayered crisis unfolding so fast that it’s difficult to keep track of its moving parts. It’s important to watch the big picture,…
Ivanka Trump shook hands and exchanged pointed laughs with two prominent Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton policy advisers while breakfasting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. Trump was sitting down with Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi and White House aide Dina Powell, when Powell spotted the Democrats – former National Security Council member Ben…
Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart’s tech editor and darling of the “alt-right,” the label preferred by contemporary white supremacists, has some advice for American Jews: Change up those voting patterns. “Stop voting Democrat for a start, Jews keep voting for the Democrats,” he said in a talk at Western Carolina University last month. “Progressives care a lot…
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is pushing back against claims that fake news disseminated on the company’s pages helped Donald Trump win the election. “We don’t think it swayed the election,” Sandberg told NBC’s Today Show, “but we take that responsibility really seriously.” Fake news, or made-up stories, conspiracies and accusations, came to attention following the…
(JTA) — The Jewish president of a U.S. teachers union came to the defense of Rep. Keith Ellison, slamming claims that the Minnesota congressman holds anti-Semitic views. On Saturday, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers praised Ellison as “an agent of change” and called claims that he held anti-Semitic views “maddening.” Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress,…
Bernie Sanders has a message to the Democratic Party — if it wants to win elections in the future, stop fixating on the gender and race of candidates and instead focus on their economic platform. “It goes without saying that as we fight to end all forms of discrimination, as we fight to bring more…
After an ugly contest that filled the airwaves with attack ads, Democrat Josh Gottheimer has won a New Jersey congressional race against Republican incumbent Scott Garrett. After all the ballots were tallied on Wednesday, the Jewish former Bill Clinton aide held a 3% edge over his Tea Party rival, a bright spot for liberals in…
Democrats had long observed a code of omertà around Anthony Weiner, hoping to spare his estranged wife and top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin from the glare of the press. But now that his sexting habit threatens to derail Clinton’s presidential ambitions, party leaders aren’t holding back their anger toward the disgraced former congressman. “Well,…
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