The fifth Democratic presidential debate was cordial and predominantly respectful up until the last 15-or-so minutes, once former Vice President Joe Biden began talking about race. It began as soon as Senator Cory Booker was pressed on a question about President Donald Trump’s recommended border wall. He answered the question before pivoting back to discussing the significance of B..

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The fifth Democratic primary debate on Wednesday (November 20) began on the same note because the fourth, third, second, and first debate: Healthcare. And, while the conversations on stage can definitely get tiring, there's a good reason we can't stop talking about healthcare. Simply, American people care about it. According to a FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted earlier this w..

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now, democracy in the U.S. Is delicately balancing atop a pile of potential Ukrainian bribery, congressional partisanship, along with a lot of tweets. Yet all I can think about is A$AP Rocky — and what, if anything, the President is saying about the rapper. On Wednesday (November 20), Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, testified in front of the Residence In..

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"I expect that few Residents of the United States have heard my name before these events," Gordon Sondland, the United States Ambassador to the European Union, said in his starting statement to the Residence Intelligence Committee on Wednesday (November 20). Given that about 70 percent of registered voters are paying attention to the impeachment inquiry currently being conducted by ..

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By Lily Herman By age 22, Cheniqua Johnson had plenty of experience with political organizing, and contained policy internships at the governor’s office and on Capitol Hill, nevertheless she’d never taken the step of running for office herself. Her time working in politics, although, abandoned her with a feeling she just couldn’t shake: Several elected officials didn’t adequa..

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On September 11, President Donald Trump said he was going to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes. The announcement came just as a mysterious and deadly lung illness with ties to vaping swept across the nation. Although two months later, he still hasn’t moved forward with any of these promises. “We can’t have our kids be so affected,” Trump mentioned that day in September. F..

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On Thursday (November 14), students at a high school just north of Los Angeles, California, were on lockdown. At least two students were killed and a couple of others were injured as soon as an armed classmate attacked Saugus High School in Santa Clarita. That same morning, Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut were in Washington, D.C., Trying to pass a universa..

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It's been just over each year since Brett Kavanaugh was designated to the Supreme Court, although activists aren't letting Washington, D.C., Do not consider the decisions made to give him that seat. On Thursday (November 14), the activist sort Demand Justice erected a screen in front of a gala contained at Union Station in the nation's capital, HuffPost reported. On it played a recor..

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I have unfortunate news: All I’ve been able to think about for the past five days of impeachment proceedings is the American horror punk musician Wednesday 13’s first live album, Fuck It, We’ll Do It Live. Let me explain: This was the opening starting week that the Home Intelligence Committee contained public impeachment hearings — on live television for all of the world to b..

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By Lauren Rearick Local elections have the power to captivate millions of people, even those who might not directly be eligible to cast their ballot. Take Harvard University's 2019 undergraduate student government election as a prime example: Thanks to a now-viral campaign video, more than three million people were invested in the fate of two creative candidates, and their collabor..

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By De Elizabeth Welcome to Got Issues?, MTV News’s candidate-by-candidate breakdown of your biggest concerns and questions about the 2020 race. It’s official: Election Day 2020 is much less than one year away. Next November, voters across the nation will line up to cast their ballot for the next president of the United States, potentially setting into motion a new era of governm..

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As soon as 19-year-old Keagan Roberts woke up on Tuesday (November 5), he wanted to go straight to the polls — after all, it was Election Day. Although because his vehicle wasn’t working, he had to drop it off at the mechanic, go back residence, and drive his mom’s vehicle to the town hall. If he finally got there, polls had been open for 15 minutes plus it was beginning to rai..

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