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Reading Time: < 1 minute The United States has a long history of involvement and intervention in Central America – and that’s at the root of today’s border crisis.

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Reading Time: < 1 minute President Trump erroneously suggested raking the forest floors could’ve prevented the lethal California wildfires, and made other bizarre, inexplicable comments.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Turns out everyone in President Obama’s family does an impression of him, usually at the dinner table. But the leader of the free world would rather gossip.

Reading Time: < 1 minute White nationalist groups have become a force to be reckoned with in the U.S. We wanted to know who’s financially funding their hate – and there’s more money in it than you realize.

Reading Time: 2 minutes After unimaginable tragedy struck, Chris Hurst knew he was being called to something greater. His story isn’t just about an election — it’s about the people, and the proof that change is coming. Watch Virginia 12th – full documentary premieres right here, 10/30 at 5pm ET. » Get informed. Get inspired. 

Following a traumatic personal loss that made national headlines, local TV news anchor Chris Hurst quit journalism to run for political office. In the first wave of elections following a polarizing US presidential race, Hurst worked to rally support from a divided community to serve as delegate for Virginia’s 12th House District.

Reading Time: 3 minutes As it so often does, power throws a protective cape around the shoulders of the man, and he dictates the spin by denigrating the less powerful woman.”Monica Lewinsky

“If you want to know what power looks like, watch a man safely, even smugly, do interviews for decades, without ever worrying whether he will be asked the questions he doesn’t want to answer,” Lewinsky wrote of Clinton.

Reading Time: 6 minutes The more successful Pelosi is—the more she outmaneuvers and dominates her male adversaries—the more threatening she becomes. And the easier it becomes to tar the male Democratic candidates who would serve under her as emasculated yes-men. Which makes it harder for Democrats to retake the House.

It would be comforting to think that Pelosi is alienating because she’s a rich liberal Democrat from San Francisco—not because she’s a woman. Yet despite attributes that should make her endearing to cultural conservatives—she is a Catholic Italian American grandmother of nine who entered politics only after staying home to raise her kids—many Americans greeted her rise with, in the words of the Yale researchers, “contempt, anger, and/or disgust.” It was the same for Hillary Clinton: Her deep religiosity, career-long focus on child welfare, and insistence on keeping her family together in the face of near-unimaginable humiliation didn’t spare her in the 2016 presidential election.