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Mississippi Most Conservative State, D.C. Most LiberalMississippi, Utah, Wyoming, and Alabama are the four most conservative states in the U.S., each with 50% or more of its population identifying as conservative. The District of Columbia and Massachusetts are the most liberal states.
The right's stupidity spreads, enabled by a too-polite left | George MonbiotConservativism may be the refuge of the dim. But the room for rightwing ideas is made by those too timid to properly object Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today's progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as the social vivisectionists of the right slice up a living society to see if its component parts can survive in isolation. Tied up in knots of reticence ...
Saifuddin Abdullah: Creating space in MalaysiaDATUK Saifuddin Abdullah says he’s a reluctant politician who got into politics because he wanted to affect change. The Umno supreme council member and first-time MP is seen as being a minority voice of reform within his party and wishes his party was more “progressive”. In this interview, Saifuddin traces his family lineage and student activism, explains the dynamics within Umno, and wishes ...
Liberal Party celebrates Silver JubileePolitical parties were not recognised in order to contest elections at the introduction of Universal suffrage under the Donoughmore Constitution but political groupings were visible within the political space and the electoral mechanism.
N.Y.'s Cuomo tops Dems' 2016 list while O'Malley is at the bottomPaul Bedard Examiner Columnist Win or lose in the fall elections, President Obama will be off the 2016 ballot and many Democrats are already considering a shot at the White House. Topping the list, say several Democratic insiders: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, among the nation's most popular governors for his budget toughness and Clintonesque charisma. "I don't know of anybody who tops him right ...
Liberal Party, 25 years laterPolitical parties were not recognized in order to contest elections at the introduction of universal suffrage under the Donoughmore Constitution but political groupings were visible within the political space and the electoral mechanism.
Egypt Islamists on eve of power ease talk of IslamAfter decades of dreaming of power, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood finally comes face to face with the question of how to use it, as a new parliament that it dominates opens Monday.
Severed Komen, Planned Parenthood Partnership Draws Mix of Outrage, ApplauseThe Susan B. Komen Foundation's February 1 announcement that it would no longer provide grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates added fuel to the flame of a long-burning political fire. Although Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun attributed the change to a recently adopted Komen policy that prevents the organization from providing grants to recipients under governmental investigation -- as Planned ...
“The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics,” by Thomas Byrne EdsallAmerica’s fiscal situation appears grim. The “supercommittee” was unwilling to make tough decisions, mostly because voters won’t support the necessary mix of tax increases and spending cuts. Few politicians want to acknowledge that somebody’s standard of living will have to fall. It’s hard not to look at the current crisis in Europe and wonder if the United States might someday find itself in ...
Ryan Lizza: The Obama memos: How Washington remade the President.On a frigid January evening in 2009, a week before his Inauguration, Barack Obama had dinner at the home of George Will, the Washington Post columnist, who had assembled a number of right-leaning journalists to meet the President-elect. Accepting such an invitation was a gesture on Obama’ . . .
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