presidential elections
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Cory Booker Addresses Whether Democratic Leadership Is Supporting Progressive Congresswomen Enough
In an excerpt from an interview with The Root, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) acknowledged that some of the new congresswomen of color have been facing discrimination when he was asked if the Democratic leadership needed to do a better job of supporting progressive women of color like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) The freshman congresswoman…
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Washington, DC, May Give 16-Year-Olds Right to Vote for President
In the three years that I taught Intro to Journalism at the City College of New York, we’d have the most fun during our “Op-Ed” lesson, where students would have an in-class debate. Whenever we argued the question, “Should the drinking age be lowered to 18?” the pro side would inevitably argue that if kids…