Forget the sharp attitude. Offer coffee instead.

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Is it smart to fight fire with fire in politics? Some months back, Congresswoman Maxine Waters urged her constituents to be uncivil to Republicans in public. A restaurant owner in Northern Virginia asked White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave. Protesters disrupted the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Hillary Clinton said that Democrats should not be civil with Republicans until they change their way of thinking.

Columnists Michael Gerson and Bret Stephens warn us about the futility of fighting ...

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Political Issues

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More diversity would make for a better Congress

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If you haven’t noticed, Congress doesn’t represent a cross-section of America. Its members comprise a narrow sector of the nation, and that’s a problem for reasons I’ll discuss in a minute. First, let’s look at the numbers.

Non-Hispanic whites make up 61 percent of our population, but 80 percent of representatives and senators are white. People 60 years old or older make up just 20 percent of the population but the average age of a representative is 57; for a senator ...

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NOV
7

Political Issues, Uncategorized

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