Category: Politics

At a town hall, Elizabeth Warren had to explain why a woman is electable. Twice.

Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/22/18511866/cnn-townhall-elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton-trump…

Edward Snowden: Assange’s Arrest and the Mueller Report Show a ‘Two-Tiered System of Justice’

In this week’s CYBER podcast, we sat down with Edward Snowden to talk about his life in Russia, Julian Assange, and press freedom.Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/597pvk/edward-snowden-assange-arrest-mueller-report…

Nonfiction: Two Early Presidents Who Questioned the Wisdom of ‘the People’

In “The Problem of Democracy,” Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein show that John and John Quincy Adams were skeptical of popular democracy. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/books/review/nancy-isenberg-andrew-burstein-the-problem-of-democracy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…

20 years after Columbine, the guns are still the problem

Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18412627/columbine-anniversary-gun-control-mass-shootings…

Mitt Romney is “sickened” by the Trump administration’s “dishonesty” after reading Mueller report

Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/20/18508795/mitt-romney-is-sickened-by-the-trump-administrations-dishonesty-after-reading-mueller-report…

Following the Notre Dame fire, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame tops best-seller lists in France

Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/20/18507707/notre-dame-fire-hunchback-victor-hugo-best-seller…