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USA Olympian says wearing American flag ‘is an honor,’ advocates for keeping politics out of games

The Olympics are inherently anti-political so there’s no reason for politics to be brought into Tokyo 2021, world-ranked archer Brady Ellison argued on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

“When it comes to the Olympics, this is truly one of the most unpolitical pieces of sport that we have,” he said. “Where else do you have all the different countries from everywhere all over the world come to this? And we’re not fighting; we get along inside this village and I think it’s a lesson for everyone.”

“And then when you bring politics into it… I think it just kind of taints

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Why it’s now ‘American identity, stupid’ in US politics

While White Christians have fallen below a majority of the US population over the past decade, they still made up almost exactly two-thirds of the adults in the counties Trump carried — and an even higher percentage in the counties that provided him his largest margins, according to the new findings. By contrast, White Christians represent only about two-fifths of the population in the counties that voted for Biden — and an even smaller percentage in the counties that gave him his biggest margins.

The grounding of today’s partisan differences in such elemental components of social identity as religion — … Read More

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Why America’s Politics Are Stubbornly Fixed, Despite Momentous Changes

In another age, the events of this season would have been nearly certain to produce a major shift in American politics — or at least a meaningful, discernible one.

Over a period of weeks, the coronavirus death rate plunged and the country considerably eased public health restrictions. President Biden announced a bipartisan deal late last month to spend hundreds of billions of dollars rebuilding the country’s worn infrastructure — the most significant aisle-crossing legislative agreement in a generation, if it holds together. The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Thursday that the economy was on track to regain all of the

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Exploring the cruel politics that define who’s American and who isn’t

“They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

She was expressing a sentiment that many Trumpists share: that the US belongs to Donald Trump (who at the time of the Capitol riot was still in the White House) and his overwhelmingly White disciples.

The dangerous messaging here is that they’re the real Americans, not the people who reject Trumpists’ beliefs, who want to improve the country and love it — even though that devotion is rarely reciprocated.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the above quote recently. And, ahead of the Fourth of July

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John Cusack says American politics is ‘awful’: ‘We have no leaders’

John Cusack didn’t hold back his feelings about the state of affairs in the United States of America.

The 54-year-old actor slammed the U.S. in a series of tweets on Tuesday referencing an experience he had recently at a baseball game.

“I was at a ballpark last night. And they did their support the troops ad – that conflate Boeing with troops serving – while supporting the gop – that means funding the insurrection – anti democratic forces – the opposite of what they claim to support – ‘US freedom,’” Cusack wrote.

A user commented, “Boeing supports highly inflated lucrative

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Republicans block independent probe of US Capitol riot | Politics News

Republicans in the United States Senate blocked a proposal to establish an independent commission to probe the January 6 attack by Trump supporters on the US Capitol.

A proposed bill, which seeks to create a commission modelled on the one that investigated the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks, failed a key procedural vote on Friday.

“We all know what’s going on here. Senate Republicans chose to defend the ‘Big Lie’ because they feared that anything that might upset Donald Trump could hurt them politically,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said after Friday’s vote.

On Thursday, Schumer pinned the riot directly on Trump

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White male minority rule pervades politics across the US, research shows | US politics

From county officials and sheriffs to governors and senators, white male minority rule pervades politics in the United States, according to a new report published on Wednesday.

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By contrast, women and people of color constitute 51{41490b4d0cf0dbc5ec3f65e11fff509c7d6ed2a53a838ebf7adf43f0908f07f3} and 40{41490b4d0cf0dbc5ec3f65e11fff509c7d6ed2a53a838ebf7adf43f0908f07f3} of the US population respectively, but just 31{41490b4d0cf0dbc5ec3f65e11fff509c7d6ed2a53a838ebf7adf43f0908f07f3} and 13{41490b4d0cf0dbc5ec3f65e11fff509c7d6ed2a53a838ebf7adf43f0908f07f3} of officeholders, according to the research by the Reflective Democracy Campaign, shared exclusively with the Guardian.

“I think if we saw these numbers

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Letter: American politics is stuck in a canal, too

This week, we saw a container ship stuck in the narrow Suez Canal, hindering shipping around the globe. We also have America’s political container ships stuck in the narrow media canal, suspending progress all through our country. I suggest, for starters, one remedy for each of our political parties.

For the Democrats, why not publicly concede that former President Donald Trump carried out a laudable role in the development of the COVID-19 vaccines? These vaccines were developed on his watch, with considerable support from his administration, in a time frame never before accomplished. Why not give Trump kudos for this

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Biden, Harris Meet With Asian American Community in Atlanta | Politics

President Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, had planned a Friday visit to Georgia as a victory lap after winning passage of a massive spending package to provide relief to those hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.

Instead, they ended up spending much of the visit – their first joint trip since their inauguration – meeting with distraught members of the Asian American community, mourning the deaths of eight people gunned down by a man who allegedly targeted people at Asian massage places.

While the motive of the accused killer is not yet clear, both Biden and Harris noted

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