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By deporting 200,000 Salvadorans, Trump may be boosting gang recruitment
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Why don’t Trump voters feel betrayed? Because they’re getting what they wanted.
[caption id="attachment_50651" align="aligncenter" width="960"] (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)[/caption] Why doesn't President Trump's
President Trump talked tough on North Korea in the State of the Union. Here’s where things stand.
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What happened to the State of the Union address? Originally, it helped the president and Congress deliberate.
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Obama’s State of the Union: More foreign than before
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The State of the Union address in a single figure
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Tuesday, I posted a graph of the relative liberalism or
How liberal was Obama’s State of the Union address?
Tuesday, I posted a graph of the relative liberalism or
SOTU 2014: Another Laundry List After All
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The political ideology of State of the Union addresses (in 1 graph)
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State of Union address won't turn Obama's polling numbers around
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Rating the Presidents
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Black-Rimmed Glasses
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Potpourri
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Political Science and the SOTU Address
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