SPOTLIGHT
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidates say ‘bipartisan’ a lot. Trump’s Senate candidates…don’t. • Nevada Current
To paraphrase one of the more famous quips of Joe Biden’s long career, there are only three things Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen needs to make a sentence – a noun, a verb, and “bipartisan.” Okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. A recent (and typical) press release from Rosen’s office contained 12 sentences, but only used the word “bipartisan”…
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Sometimes being a pragmatic progressive is what’s needed • Nevada Current
Once upon a time, in a land where I was a much younger woman who had not spent over 25 years in the realm of social justice work, seeing how egos, passion and feelings — along with institutional roadblocks — get in the way of creating justice, I probably would have referred to myself as a leftist. At the very…
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The giant elephant-in-the-room ‘tax’ that we must no longer ignore • Nevada Current
When most Americans – including a frustrating percentage of elected officials — are asked about what they see as the issue that poses the greatest threat to our nation’s fiscal and economic wellbeing, the chances are high they will guess wrong. The current national electoral debate makes this unfortunate, if not terribly surprising, situation painfully clear. In campaign ad after campaign…
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Republican mockery of ‘laughing Kamala’ is nothing new to Black women • Nevada Current
With Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket, Republicans are rebuilding a campaign strategy that for months focused on running against President Joe Biden. One emerging theme asserts that Harris laughs too much at inappropriate moments – part of a broader argument that Harris is “weird.” “I call her ‘laughing Kamala,’” former President Donald Trump…
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College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right • Nevada Current
Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional representatives. Calls from right-wing senators for troops to intervene in campus demonstrations. Hundreds of student and faculty arrests, with nonviolent dissenters thrown to the ground, tear-gassed and tased. We’ve been here before. In my book “Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America,” I detail how, throughout the…
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3 out of 5 NV congressional Democrats want to let the mining industry party like it’s 1872 • Nevada Current
Three-fifths of the Democrats in Nevada’s congressional delegation agree with the state’s only Republican in Congress, Rep. Mark Amodei: If there’s one thing the federal government should do, that thing is whatever mining wants. Amodei got a bill passed on the floor of your United States House of Representatives this week. First, congratulations, Congressman. A representative getting the House to…
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Which white guy should Harris bring to Las Vegas next week? • Nevada Current
On Saturday, August 10, Kamala Harris is scheduled to be in Las Vegas with her running mate, the last stop in a Harris-Whoever battleground state tour the campaign has planned for next week. We’ll know who Whoever is no later than Tuesday, when the seven-state trip starts in Philadelphia. Sandwiched between Philly and Vegas are stops in Wisconsin, Michigan, North…
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A bulwark against the climate crisis • Nevada Current
In June, we witnessed the earliest ever category 5 hurricane to form in the Atlantic Ocean. The storm caused more than 1 million people to lose power for more than four days and caused deaths as far away as Vermont. In just the first 10 days in July, more than 28 people died from a record heat wave. And globally, July 22 marked the hottest day ever recorded. The…
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The future of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire could hinge on a legal effort in Nevada • Nevada Current
Conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch is making news again – this time, with a secretive effort to change an irrevocable trust. That trust has important ownership interests in both Fox Corp. and News Corp., so it affects broadcast news as well as The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Under the current terms of the trust, upon Murdoch’s death, his…
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Mass deportation would be an atrocity • Nevada Current
My mother is an immigrant. She left Ireland when she was 17. That’s what the young Irish did in the late 1950s. There were no jobs. And there was no opportunity. Forget college: There was no free secondary education until the late 1960s. Having finished the equivalent of eighth grade, the only way she could extend her schooling was repeating…
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