The State of the Union address is what historian Daniel Boorstin called a pseudo-event, a speech endowed with special meaning because of its pageantry and pervasive news coverage.
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Credit Madeleine Albright with good manners. After Mitt Romney labeled Russia America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe” during a 2012 presidential debate, the former secretary of state said his views were “out of date” and “just wrong.”
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Sometimes numbers do tell the story. In this case, they’re daunting for Democrats.
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Talk about telegraphing your punches!
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Tuesday morning, the hospital wouldn’t let me say goodbye to my sister.
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Getting the U.S. Senate to do something isn’t easy. How would you convince skeptical colleagues and outline thorny issues for voters?
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Anyone who’s served on a White House staff, Democrat or Republican, has some sympathy for what President Biden and his team are going through.
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President Biden went down to Georgia Tuesday to deliver an apocalyptic speech about the dangers facing our democracy.
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