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Sanders Is Making Excellent Use of His Power as Budget Committee Chair Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders speaks as Neera Tanden, nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 2021. ANDREW HARNIK / POOL / AFP via Getty Images By Reading List After his defeat at the hands of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the 2016 presidential primaries, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders went back to work. Sanders’s supporters were in agony that November as they watched Clint...

James Weldon Johnson (1876–1938), who wrote “Lift Ev’ry Voice” with his brother, composer J. Rosamond Johnson, was a poet, novelist, Broadway lyricist, civil rights activist, and diplomat. Johnson expressed a diverse range of views about different subjects, including the affinities between African-Americans and Jews. As Leonard Dinnerstein’s “Antisemitism in America” notes, in a 1918 essay published in The New York Age, an African American newspaper, Johnson wrote of “the two million Jews [who] have a controlling interest in the finances of the nation.” Yet he nevertheless u...

The three members of the former president’s legal team made a number of misleading or false claims about the events of Jan. 6, antifa, the impeachment process and voter fraud.

Members of Sister Thea Bowman, Servant of God, Mass Choir sing during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 16, 2020, at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, N.Y.(CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) As a child I stood, hand on heart, pledging allegiance to the flag and singing about “bombs bursting in air.” I can never remember which lines come first in our national anthem: “gallantly streaming” or “twilight’s last gleaming”? While these patriotic customs may be more contentious these days I find them valuable, especially now as an adult. I worry about losing the ...

Rush Limbaugh, America's Anchorman and Doctor of Democracy, is known as the pioneer of AM radio. Limbaugh revolutionized the media and political landscape with his unprecedented combination o f serious discussion of political, cultural and social issues along with satirical and biting humor.