A Different Super Bowl Matchup: Politics vs. the NFL

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A Different Super Bowl Matchup: Politics vs. the NFL

New York Times
The Super Bowl, scheduled for Sunday night in Houston, is infused with national politics like never before. Fox’s pregame telecast will include an interview of President Trump by Bill O’Reilly.

3 ways to block political posts from your Facebook feed

CBS News
If you’re tired of seeing one political rant after another when you scroll through Facebook – it’s time to start filtering your friends’ politics-heavy Facebook posts from your precious news feed. During the election, Facebook users searched for apps

Want to run for political office? This website will tell you how to register and when positions open up

BGR
Donald Trump’s ascension to the Oval Office has taught us many things, not the least of which is that anyone can truly become President.

From “All Lives Matter” to Donald Trump’s white nationalism: The politics of fake empathy

Salon
Established in 2005, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was created by the United Nations “to serve as a date for official commemoration of the victims of the Nazi regime and to promote Holocaust education throughout the world.

Super Bowl as a Politics-Free Zone? With Trump, Lady Gaga and Some Ads, That’s Doubtful

Variety
In a hyper-partisan atmosphere, it seems a sure bet that some sort of red-blue divide will emerge in the theatrics and staging surrounding the game, despite New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady’s efforts to avoid politics

Politics Podcast: To Filibuster Or Not To Filibuster

FiveThirtyEight
President Trump announced his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch (an Antonin Scalia lookalike) to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday night.

In Response to Steve Bannon Appointment, Bill Aims to Get Politics Out of National Security Council

The Intercept
The top Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence introduced new legislation on Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to give political strategist Steve Bannon a seat on the White House’s most critical national

‘The Expanse’ imagines a future of power politics

Daily Kos
Whenever I try to merge the ideas of space travel and future societies from science fiction with the political realities humans have wrestled with for most of our existence, I’m always left with the uneasy feeling a united Earth government, working

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Rex and Balances

The Atlantic
President Trump made an unannounced visit to Dover Air Force Base to attend the return of the remains of Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a U.S.

Podcast: The Funky Politics Crew with DC and MD Ward

The Commercial Appeal
For Darrell “D.C.” Catron and Marcus “M.D.” Ward, hosts of “The Funky Politics,” the funk is all over town.

A Third Way in the ‘Respectability Politics‘ Debate

The Atlantic
In Kennedy’s view, “the politics of respectability is a tactic of public relations that is, per se, neither necessarily good nor bad.

Super Bowl LI: A guide to pigskin politics

Center for Responsive Politics
Bill Belichick, the Patriots’ coach, wrote a letter to Trump commending him for his campaign performance. But like Brady, he didn’t help fatten Trump’s coffers.

Sheryl Sandberg addresses her silence around the Women’s March, politics and Trump

TechCrunch
Sheryl Sandberg has been in the news lately for her opposition to the global gag rule and her more recent comments on Trump’s highly controversial and discriminatory immigration ban.

Star gets exploitative with its politics

A.V. Club
In previous reviews of Star, I’ve praised it for talking about issues that are rarely brought up in primetime: race, class, sexuality.

Brexit: MPs overwhelmingly back Article 50 bill

BBC News
By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor. This time last year few in Westminster really thought that this would happen. The then prime minister’s concern was persuading the rest of the EU to give him a better deal for the UK.

The ‘mansion tax’ is all about de Blasio’s politics of resentment

New York Post
Mayor de Blasio would really, really like to raise taxes on “the rich.” Reminding you of that looks to be his main point in calling for a new “mansion tax.

Tech, Entertainment, Politics at Center of Women’s Conference in San Jose

NBC Bay Area
Thousands of women gathered in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to talk about jobs, politics and the future. Actress Viola Davis was among the speakers at the annual Watermark Women’s Conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center, where she told …

Stick to sports? Jackie Robinson’s birthday reminds us sports and politics mix

CBSSports.com
There’s a perception that bringing up low pay for minor leaguers injects politics into an area where none should exist.

Kochs put political muscle into Gorsuch fight

USA TODAY
Concerned Veterans for America, one of four grass-roots groups in the conservative political and policy empire overseen by billionaire Charles Koch, will lead the campaign, which officials say also will include direct mail, phone calls and door-to-door

President Trump isn’t a fan of dissent — inside or outside the government

Washington Post
If there is to be a fight, the other side is preparing as well. Faiz Shakir, national political director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the group plans to dedicate significant new resources – including much of the more than $24 million in

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