Taylor for President

07 Feb 2024

Opinion

Could Taylor Swift be biggest election influencer of them all?

There is a long history in the United States of presidential candidates receiving important celebrity endorsements that many argue have tipped the tide from one candidate to another. As far back as 1920, when Warren Harding was endorsed by film stars including Lillian Russell, and 40 years later,

05 Feb 2024

Opinion

Increased security must for election workers

A county election worker in Oregon recently found himself in an unsettling situation during his rounds collecting ballots from drop boxes. A disgruntled woman, driving erratically, had been following him for hours. As the situation escalated, the woman began shouting that she had a gun and would continue filming him

14 Aug 2023

Opinion

Trump is on the cusp of a stunning turnaround

When he left the White House, Donald Trump was a pariah. After years of bending Washington to his will with a single tweet, Trump was, at least for a moment, diminished. He was a one-term Republican president rejected by voters and then shunned by large swaths of his party after his refusal to

05 Feb 2024

Opinion

Why 2024 may not be the worst political year ever

The 2028 presidential campaign can’t come soon enough. Just think: Fresh faces, furrowed by fewer lines. Fresh ideas, not of the authoritarian, willfully divisive kind (we can hope). Fresh blood, and without triggering Hitlerian talk of “poisoning” our nation. A new contest, not a rematch of two unpopular

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