the mahablog

That, at least, is what Republicans want voters to think, newborn babies and turn blind eye to bigotry against Jews... ... Every Republican senator would have to go on record to show whether he stands with Trump or with Constitution. ..

federalism is a condition for better states

In reality, state power can perform important balancing act against grown sources of coercion — think of French secularism responding to the aggressive anti-republican Catholicism of the late 19th century, or of the civil rights in United States using levers of the government to respond to..

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intimidation, pressure and humiliation: inside trump’s two-year war

Using Congress oversight powers, Republican lawmakers succeeded in doing what Trump could not do on his own force into the open some of the government's most sensitive investigative files. ... The president cheered the lawmakers on Twitter, in interviews and private, urging Gaetz on Air Force..

farsnews

The shutdown ended in late January when Trump, his fellow Republicans and Democrats agreed to temporarily fund the government while talks on border security continued.  . Racing against the clock, Democratic and Republican negotiators came to an agreement last week to keep the government..

spanish state: early election announced

In the 1930s, the revolutionary crisis that swept through Second Republic was marked by different factors, and the important of all was the inability of Socialist Party, coalition with the bourgeois republicans, to carry out the social reforms that people longed for. ... By the relentless..

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