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    Small-town America is the real America to many, with cities seen as corrupt and violent (Adnan R. Khan)

    The stark, unbridgeable divide between rural and urban America

    Adnan R. Khan: How do you convince rural Americans that the cities are not the anarchy Trump says they are? How do you convince urbanites to engage with rural fears rather than dismiss them?
    Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden introduces her as his running mate in Wilmington, Del. on Aug. 12, 2020. (Carolyn Kaster/AP/CP)

    Kamala Harris is no friend of the community

    Andray Domise: Harris’s status as running mate to Joe Biden is indeed historic. But representation does not imply loyalty or any degree of respect to Black and brown communities beyond the superficial.
    U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, speaks to members of the media while standing beside a truck plastered with campaign posters after greeting voters in Astoria, Queens on Jun. 23, 2020, on primary election day in New York. (CP/AP/Kathy Willens)

    The rise of America’s NDP

    Rick Smith: There has never been a better moment for American progressives to flex their muscles
    Democratic candidate for US President Congressman Beto O’Rourke campaigns

    How small donations became the new currency of U.S. politics

    Democratic candidates for president are being measured based on two- and three-digit contributions to their campaigns—or lack thereof
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    Will America recover from Donald Trump and the Reign of Lies?

    Allen Abel: As the president’s hallucinatory world heaves and crumbles, Americans ponder what kind of country they wish to live in—and what kind of people they want to be
    CA: Lions Gate Premiere Of “See No Evil” – Arrivals

    Why wrestlers like Kane have a strange hold on American voters

    If politics is theatre, then no candidate is more authentic than the new mayor of Knoxville, Tenn.
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    The rise of the radical left in America’s Democratic Party

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has put a brash, fresh face on unapologetic socialism in the United States. Can Americans—or even Democrats—get behind her?
    Democrat leaders unveil the Democratic party’s “A Better Deal” for working Americans in Berryville

    What the Democrats’ new ’Better Deal’ policy means

    The Democratic Party’s new brand might feel like empty sloganeering—but it may also signal a big shift in thinking. Which one is it?
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    Trump’s Twitter blunder: How do you say ’covfefe’?

    U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted out an incomplete sentence with the word ’covfefe’ Tuesday night and the Internet is loving it. We asked people how they would pronounce the mysterious word.
    Donald Trump Is Sworn In As 45th President Of The United States

    Times Donald Trump outright lied

    The 45th President of the United States has developed a reputation for dishonesty in just a few months. Here is a selection of Donald Trump’s more egregious lies.
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