Elections
Violence and threats of more: Brazil’s electoral drama gets more bizarre
September 13, 2018After a far-right candidate is stabbed, his VP running mate threatens to bring out the military. Meanwhile, with Lula in jail, the left has to bring in a substitute candidate of its own.
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Midterm elections on agenda at Congressional Black Caucus conference
September 12, 2018Politics, and specifically the mid-term elections, was a big part, but not the only part, of the agenda at the Congressional Black Caucus foundation’s D.C. conference.
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Wisconsin’s Sen. Baldwin gets strong backing of Emily’s List
September 12, 2018Despite a welter of political topics and local pocketbook concerns from the voters, “health care is what I hear about most,” said Baldwin.
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Far right breakthrough prevented in Sweden
September 11, 2018No one can dress up a far-right general election vote of 17.6 percent as good news, but nor should the disappointment felt by Sweden’s Democrat fascists in suits be ignored.
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Katie Porter battles right-wing Republican in California’s Orange County
September 11, 2018At a service in a California synagogue on Friday the tone was set for healing and change. For many at the service it meant making Porter Congresswoman Porter.
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