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On Thursday November 12, Pope Francis telephoned candidate Joe Biden to congratulate him on his apparent presidential victory, albeit one still vigorously challenged in several states by President Donald Trump. According to the Catholic News Agency, "President-elect Joe Biden spoke this morning with His Holiness Pope Francis. The president-elect
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When it comes to court picks, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's latest is a dud. Baker nominated Kimberly Budd to serve as the chief justice of the state's Supreme Judicial Court in late October, and the Governor's Council held their first public hearing for Budd
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Some people are saving the Sunday, November 8, 2020 New York Times with the banner "Biden Beats Trump" headline. The one I am thinking of framing and putting up on the wall, though, is the front page of the Thursday, February 27, 2020 Times. That is the one
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"Why should he concede? I wouldn't." — John F. Kennedy, the morning after the close 1960 presidential election, referring to opponent Richard Nixon
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"There's got be a morning after." That's the opening line from "The Morning After," a summer of 1973 chart-topping pop song sung by Maureen McGovern. Previously, "The Morning After" had already won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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Vice presidential candidates, like doctors in the Hippocratic Oath, are supposed to "do no harm." Joe Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, risks violating that traditional rule with an animated video narrated in her voice that she posted Sunday on social media. "There's a
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If you watch enough mainstream media, you know for sure that Donald Trump is down in the polls – probably hopelessly so – and that, above all, 2020 is not like 2016. But actually, 2020 looks a lot like 2016. Now as then, Trump has to win Republican-leaning battleground states Florida, North
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Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins in the presidential election of 2020, we need a new kind of Secretary of Education — someone who has classroom teaching experience beyond grade 5 and has administered an elementary, middle, or high school for at least a couple of years or so. This
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