Voters warm to candidates who are not religious
Source: Religious News Service (RNS) On the growing list of ways the “outsiders” election of 2016 is upsetting conventional political wisdom, here’s a new entry: A contender’s lack of strong […]
Source: Religious News Service (RNS) On the growing list of ways the “outsiders” election of 2016 is upsetting conventional political wisdom, here’s a new entry: A contender’s lack of strong […]
Source: The New York Times KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Hillary Clinton is Methodist, but she rarely talks about her faith on the campaign trail. On Monday, at a town-hall-style event in […]
Source: NBC News Two protesters were removed Sunday from a Donald Trump rally after holding up a banner that read “Stop Hate.” One of the protesters — Arish Singh, a […]
Source: Time A popular petition to ban the real estate mogul gets its day in parliament On Jan. 18, the U.K. parliament will debate a petition signed by more than […]
Jan 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ian Buruma Ted Cruz, one of the Republican candidates for the US presidency, recently said that his solution to the turmoil in the Middle East would be to “carpet-bomb” Daesh and see if “sand can glow in the dark”. Donald Trump, the Republican front runner, […]
Source: Time By Jay Newton-Small ‘There still is a double standard, there’s no doubt about that.’ I sat down with Hillary Clinton in October for an exclusive interview for my book, […]
Source: Time The former president is also opening up Hillary’s campaign to a new line of Republican attacks Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail for his wife in New Hampshire […]
Source: US NEWS By Robyn Blumner Now that news editors have assembled and disseminated their end-of-year lists – Top 10 of This, Worst 5 of That – I’d like to […]
Source: BBC The romanticised view of US presidential elections is that they present quadrennial opportunities for national renewal; that they are expressions of hope and optimism that reflect this country’s […]
Source: Huffington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — Taunted by Republicans to declare war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” Democrats are turning to an unlikely ally: George W. Bush. President Barack Obama, under […]
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) Evangelist Franklin Graham has announced he is abandoning the Republican Party in disgust over the move by the GOP-led Congress last week to pass a […]
Source: Pew Research Center But most say campaign has not focused on important issues As candidates in both parties prepare for the next round of presidential debates, a new national survey finds that the public is highly engaged by the 2016 campaign. Fully 74% of Americans say they have given […]
Source: Time ‘This campaign will be terrific! Huge!’ Russian President Vladimir Putin may soon be joining Donald Trump on the Republican presidential ticket in the culmination of a highly-publicized exchange […]
Source: Time Hillary Clinton’s rivals questioned her commitment to tighter rules on guns, her hawkish foreign policy tendencies and even her age. None of that mattered. The former Secretary of […]
Source: BBC Bernie Sanders has apologised to fellow US Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after his staff stole valuable voting data from her campaign. “This is not the type of […]
Source: Reason.com “I think if you’re in favor of World War III, you have your candidate,” said Sen. Rand Paul during the Republican debate. He was referring to Gov. Chris […]
Source: Time No one seriously hoped they’d snuff out the support Donald Trump enjoys in the Republican Party. Instead, on the debate stage on the Las Vegas Strip, his rivals […]
Source: Politico Muslim Republicans fear Donald Trump’s escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric — capped this week by his call to block all Muslims’ entry into the country — could turn Muslims away […]
Source: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee on Thursday rebuked Donald Trump by endorsing a measure that says barring individuals from entering the United States based on religion would be un-American. The Republican presidential front-runner has called for blocking Muslims from entering the country in the aftermath […]
Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor Writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He previously was a senior editor at TIME, based first in Hong Kong and later in New York. It has become a sort of mantra in the U.S. election cycle. When faced with questions of national […]