19th Amendment: A century of pioneering women in US politics BBC News One hundred years ago – on 4 June 1919 – Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the US constitution guaranteeing the right of American women to vote. “us politics” – Google News
Read More...Why Longer Lives Mean the Future of US Politics Is Female OZY Women live longer than men. And in the realm of politics, simply sticking around has an advantage, as seniority often dictates power — particularly in Congress and state legislatures. But that hasn’t helped women traditionally. Until now. For decades, men have more often gotten elected at a younger age, whereas women either struggled to win races or didn’t choose to join politics until after raising children. Take Nancy Pelosi, perhaps the most sustainably powerful female American politician in history,…
Read More...Trump defied the laws of politics. Now he’s trying to break the laws of economic gravity. CNN President Donald Trump came to office breaking the laws of US politics, knocking over Democrats’ blue wall in the Rust Belt and remaking the GOP in his own nationalist image. He basically spent 2016 saying there was a different political reality than the one politicians and most voters knew, and it turned out he had a point. There’s a similar alternate reality emerging where it comes to the President’s use of tariffs, first against…
Read More...Here Comes AOC: How She Is Changing U.S. Politics In Big Ways The National Interest Online The youngest woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is a force to contend with. With clear and forthright … “us politics” – Google News
Read More...Brazil’s Bolsonaro took a page from US politics by dangling the possibility of an evangelical Supreme Court Justice Vox.com Victor Moriyama/Getty Images But US evangelicals have been more loyal to Trump than Brazil’s evangelicals have been to President Bolsonaro, so this move may not work. Speaking at an Assembly of God Pentecostal church this morning, Brazil’s rightist President Jair Bolsonaro opened a new front in Brazil’s culture wars: the composition of Brazil’s Supreme Court. Decrying a recent Supreme Court ruling that hate crime legislation protects sexual minorities, Bolsonaro asked, “Isn’t it…
Read More...Political Cartoons: Game of Thrones melds with U.S. politics The Mercury News Global TV event of the decade ends, but its legacy lives on in Congress, at the White House and abroad. “us politics” – Google News
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