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SOURCE: HuffPost
6/13/2022
The Families of Victims of Anti-Abortion Violence Face a Post-Roe World
The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/25/2022
Ted Cruz is an Unwitting Publicist for Left-Leaning Books
If you have written a book about racism, policing, or other controversial issues, your best promotional strategy is to have Senator Cruz wave your book around in a televised Senate hearing.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/21/2022
Ted Cruz Called Bushrod Washington "Uncontroversial" Court Nominee. His Slaves Probably weren't Asked
by Gillian Brockell
The Texas senator identified the decisions of the Supreme Court on abortion, civil rights, and other issues in the 1960s and 1970s as the origin of political wrangling over court appointments.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/8/2021
Sometimes it Comes in Handy to Understand Historical Examples of Systemic Racism
by Philip Bump
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's references to racism in design and planning drew mockery from Republicans but reflect the history of political choices that shaped America's transportation networks.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
6/7/2021
Why Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Won’t Be Punished for Fomenting a Riot
by Alex Pareene
The Senate's ethics processes reflect an instution that has historically policed itself. They are completely useless when Senators ignore see political advantage in ignoring institutional norms.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
4/19/2021
On the Legacy of Jim Crow, Ted Cruz Picks the Wrong Partisan Fight (Opinion)
Ted Cruz imagines that the partisan affiliation of Jim Crow segregationists is a "gotcha" against the Democratic Party today, which only makes sense if you ignore everything that's happened since 1964.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
July 13, 2019
Ted Cruz criticizes Tenn. governor for day honoring Confederate general and KKK leader
Ted Cruz took to criticizing Tenessee for celebration of a Confederate general and KKK Grand Wizard.
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6-4-17
Ted Cruz vs. Harvard historian Joyce Chaplin
At issue: when the USA gained formal recognition as an independent country.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-8-16
Why Cruz Is Worse Than Trump
by Paul Krugman
On economics, that is.
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SOURCE: The Nation
3-30-16
Ted Cruz Embodies the Degeneration of Foreign-Policy Conservatism
by Andrew J. Bacevich
Think nothing could be worse than a Trump presidency? Think again.
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SOURCE: RealClearPolitics
3-31-16
The GOP's Resilience Is Time-Tested
by Nancy C. Unger
Some Republicans hope that the nomination can be wrested from Trump at the convention, a ploy that failed for Roosevelt supporters in 1912.
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SOURCE: KZBK
3-24-16
Julian Zelizer says Ted Cruz is hardly the reasonable alternative to Trump
by Julian Zelizer
"The greatest political sleight of hand in the 2016 campaign has been Sen. Ted Cruz's remaking himself into the reasonable, establishment candidate in the GOP race."
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SOURCE: New York Post
3-27-16
Smearing presidential candidates’ wives is totally normal
According to National First Ladies’ Library historian Carl Anthony, the first smear campaign aimed at a first lady came way back in 1808.
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SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
3-21-16
Daniel Pipes says he backs Ted Cruz
by Daniel Pipes
In an interview he says that we need to be sure to distinguish between radical and moderate Islam, but not ignore the religious component of Islamist terrorism.
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SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2-28-16
Dirty tricks are nothing new
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Surreptitious slander is a bipartisan tactic, though it’s become a mainstay for the GOP.
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2-28-16
Might Makes Right: An American Tradition
by William Astore
To hear Republican candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz talk, almost any act of violence is justifiable to defeat the enemy.
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SOURCE: Slate
2-8-16
Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible to Be President
by Eric Posner
At least according to the most plausible constitutional interpretation.
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SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
2-5-16
Legal scholars at Harvard debate Cruz’s eligibility to serve as president
Laurence Tribe said Cruz is disqualified.
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1-31-16
Ted Cruz: Is He or Isn’t He Eligible to be President?
by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and Sam Erman
Why these authors reach a surprising conclusion.
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SOURCE: The Nation
1-25-16
What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know About Ronald Reagan
by John Nichols
Reagan was a liberal Democrat who decried wrongheaded Republicans before he became the conservative hero of wrongheaded Republicans.