Moderate Colorado Republican switches parties, citing stolen election claims
Colorado state Sen. Kevin Priola announced on Monday he is switching to the Democratic Party, saying he could not “in good conscience” be silent about Republicans who baselessly cast doubt on the validity of the 2020 election and the existence of climate change. Priola, a moderate who served four terms in the Colorado House before arriving in the state Senate in 2017, said the GOP has changed since the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and he had hoped the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol would cause Republicans to distance themselves from former President Trump.
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Story at a glance Researchers conducted a series of experiments both in the field and in the lab to measure the attitudes of both the performer and the recipient of the kind act. One experiment allowed 84 participants at a park in Chicago to decide whether to keep or give away a cup of hot chocolate. Those who gave away their cup und
Read MoreLarry Summers says White House shouldn't extend student loan payment pause
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on Monday cautioned the Biden administration against extending the moratorium on federal student loan repayments and knocked "unreasonably generous student loan relief" he said could worsen inflation. “I hope the administration does not contribute to inflation macro economically by offering unreasonably generous student loan relief or micro economically by encouraging college tuition increases,” Summers, who served during the Clinton administration, said in a series of t
Read MoreDid Newt Gingrich wreck American politics?
Pundits and scholars looking for someone to blame for the dismal state of our politics often end up pointing their fingers at the same man: former U.S. representative and speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank argues in a recent column (and in his new book “
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