Peter Dreier
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Peter Dreier is the E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College.
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The number of former Cabinet secretaries and staffers who have denounced their one-time boss, Donald Trump, is unprecedented.
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Attempts to cast Bowman as part of a trend gloss over the details of the district and the candidate.
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Although he liked to portray the NRA as representing grassroots gun owners, LaPierre was a corporate lobbyist and his major clients were the corporations whose profits grow when there are few restrictions on the sale and ownership of guns and ammunition.
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UAW president Shawn Fain described the victory as a 'turning point in the class war.'
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Most Jews reject Republican policy positions and trust Democrats over Republicans on all major issues, including fighting antisemitism, but Trump’s extremism is particularly unpopular among Jewish voters.
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Throughout the debt-ceiling crisis, news reports have wrongly suggested that each party's activist wings balance one another out.
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Public awareness is increasing. But police killings have not significantly declined.
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Commentators say it’s part of a broader conservative backlash. That's wrong.