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Nude photographs published this week are raising fresh questions about the accuracy of a key aspect of Melania Drumpf’s biography: her immigration status when she first came to the United States to work as a model ( Read more... )

Kris Kobach's efforts to make voters prove that they're citizens aren't going so well


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Despite the No vote in Scotland's referendum, there are still questions to be resolved about British identity, writes Richard Weight ( Read more... )

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Sen. Tim Kaine did something rare on Tuesday: he delivered a speech in Spanish on the floor of the Senate ( Read more... )

Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American
There is a double standard: White terrorists are dealt with as lone wolves, Islamists are existential threats

Updated: Sirota responds to critics of this piece over here.As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing - the period that will determine the ( Read more... )

At noon on 8 January, the first day of the 2013 legislative session, around 200 Texans stood stubbornly in the rain on the north steps of the capitol building in Austin. Some carried state flags, others placards bearing messages such as “I want off the sinking ship”. To cries of “Remember the Alamo!” and “Liberty or Death!”, Daniel Miller, the ( Read more... )

Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold.

How the GOP’s War on Voting Backfired

Since the 2010 election, Republicans passed new voting restrictions in more than a dozen states aimed at reducing the turnout of Barack Obama’s “coalition of the ascendant”-young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics.

“This is not rocket science,” Bill Clinton said last year ( Read more... )

( says the NY Times, 'Many brave people have fought back against Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s anti-immigrant campaign. Now, with a lawsuit under way in Phoenix, their work is finally being recognized. )