Author: Daniel snow

Opinion | Elizabeth Warren Is Frustrated

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I feel so frustrated that we didn’t deliver more, that when we had the opportunity, we didn’t deliver more. And frankly, when we got into those elections, that we didn’t lay out a more ambitious agenda, more was needed. Damn, I wrote that book, “Two-Income Trap,” what has it been now, 20 blah, blah, years ago, I wrote it at a time when I talked about how I couldn’t get child care 25 years before that, how I almost ended up not being able to go to school, not being able to finish my education, and ultimately quitting my first…

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Opinion | This Administration Is Silencing Its Critics

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The best way I can, I think I can put this is that these people, the administration, the people eagerly trying to use Kirk’s death to impose, basically, state-directed speech restrictions, who are threatening to go after freedom of assembly —— This is when you’re threatening, saying, we’re going to use the state to go after NGOs, we’re going to use the state to go after organizations that do activist work — you’re threatening freedom of association. This, to me, is just like, these people hate your freedom. Like, I don’t know what else to say. They hate the fact…

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Opinion | How to Defeat Trump

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Almost at no point in the last 10 years has Trump been a majority popular figure with a majority of Americans. But at this point, I think we’ve learned that you’re not going to see something like, in the absence of maybe some catastrophic economic meltdown, you’re not going to see anything like the kind of low approval ratings that you saw for George W. Bush, say, at the end of his second term, that he has a higher floor than most politicians because of the dedication of that Republican base. However, however, the biggest issue in confronting Trump has…

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