Max Taves
Journalist at Freelance
Deputy Opinion Editor at The Mercury News
Concerned citizen @world. Contributing columnist @DCReportMedia. Former columnist @WSJ & @CBSi-@CNET and (award-winning) reporter @LAWeekly & https://t.co/DtYyaCjz6o.
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May 11, 2024 |
sacbee.com | Max Taves
Scapegoating immigrants is easy. Looking in the mirror? Not so much. But now’s the time for introspection. Inflamed by a Mein Kampf-quoting former (and possibly future) president, immigration ranks as the top issue on voters’ minds, surpassing the economy, deficit and crime in Gallup’s February . Immigration has never ranked this high in Gallup polls stretching back to 1981. Whether rising fears of immigrants are rational, the surge at the southern border is unprecedented.
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May 8, 2024 |
rawstory.com | Max Taves
When Mexicans are shot dead, the last thing they see are the barrels of American guns. The same could be said for thousands of Hondurans, Bahamians, Colombians, Haitians, Dominicans and Jamaicans murdered every year. The GOP is cool with that. Republicans in Congress get 95% of the gun rights lobby’s campaign donations, and they aggressively run interference for their base’s business — selling as many guns as possible to whoever wants to buy them wherever they are.
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Mar 22, 2024 |
dcreport.org | Max Taves
GOP Senate Power Contradicts James Madison, ConstitutionA rare thing happened last week. Republican Senators didn’t name-drop a Founding Father to justify their grip over America’s legal system. Last Tuesday, the U.S. federal judiciary announced it was closing a loophole which allowed plaintiffs to choose the judges that would hear their cases, a policy justifiably called “judge shopping” and regularly used and abused by Texas’ Attorney General and anti-abortion groups, among others.
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Mar 11, 2024 |
dcreport.org | Max Taves
Republicans Surge in Economic Confidence, Contrary to Democrats’ Historically Strong PerformanceIn October, Gallup noticed an ominous record for Democrats. That month, the pollster found Republicans had the biggest advantage over Democrats on the economy than at any point in 32 years. “Republicans’ 14-percentage-point lead in public preferences for keeping the country prosperous is up from a 10-point margin last year and is its widest advantage on this measure since mid-1991,” per Gallup.
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Feb 23, 2024 |
sacbee.com | Max Taves
Even before the embarrassing performances of the presidents of MIT, Harvard and UPenn on anti-Semitism in December, Republican leaders — particularly those representing the least educated voters — have been assailing American universities, dragging them into conservatives’ latest culture wars.
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