SAG Awards: A night when politics trumped the prizes themselves

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SAG Awards: A night when politics trumped the prizes themselves

Los Angeles Times
Politics blended into the awards themselves, including the night’s biggest winner, “Hidden Figures,” a historical drama about the largely unknown black women who helped NASA launch the space program.

Travelers Stranded and Protests Swell Over Trump Order

New York Times
But under pressure from opposition politicians, her spokesman later said the British government did “not agree with this kind of approach.

Soccer, the most international of sports, can’t escape real-world politics in wake of Trump’s executive order

Los Angeles Times
Sports are supposed to offer a relief from politics, except, of course, if the sport in question is soccer. In that case, the sport is impossible to separate from the outside world, as U.S.

The week in politics

CNN
… week in politics 0129 10 week in politics 0129 Pence and family at Life March 0127 11 week in politics 0129 12 week in politics 0129 13 week in politics 0129 14 week in politics 0129. Take a look at the week in politics from January 22 through

SAG Awards & Politics: Mahershala Ali, Taraji P. Henson, Denzel Washington, Lily Tomlin & Others Speak Their Mind

Deadline
Hidden Figures took the top prize tonight at the 2017 SAG Awards, but President Trump was no hidden figure onstage or in the press room backstage, as many of the night’s big winners continued their political thoughts for assembled hacks. Related.

California Politics Podcast: Reactions to President Trump’s first week

Los Angeles Times
Even before the weekend controversy and protests, California’s top elected officials spent much of the last week reacting to the first moves by President Donald Trump.

A Clarifying Moment in American History

The Atlantic
The question is, what should Americans do about it? To friends still thinking of serving as political appointees in this administration, beware: When you sell your soul to the Devil, he prefers to collect his purchase on the installment plan.

People Who Are Curious About Science Are More Open-Minded About Politics

Seeker
A new study shows that people who are curious about science venture outside their echo chambers and engage with information that runs counter to their politics. Recruiting these people for larger group discussions about controversial science topics

Kellyanne Conway: The Media Failed; When Will People Be Fired?

RealClearPolitics
Trump administration adviser Kellyanne Conway joins FNC’s Chris Wallace to clear the air about Team Trump’s feud with the mainstream media.

Could Someone Like John Edwards Have Saved the Democrats?

RealClearPolitics
And that’s where many political observers made a key mistake – Barack Obama built a winning coalition, but it wasn’t the one that Judis and Teixeira described.

In Divided Wisconsin County, Packers Talk is OK, but No Politics

New York Times
Al Exner, chairman of the Sauk County Republicans, sat in a diner in Reedsburg on a recent morning, recounting the times when arguments about politics could go on “tooth and nail” for hours, even among the best of friends, and nobody would walk away …

Trayvon Martin’s parents, five years after his shooting, weigh political bids

USA TODAY
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Trayvon Martin’s parents aren’t convinced much progress has been made on racial justice since the Florida teenager was killed five years ago in a shooting that helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement, but they say at least

‘He’s Going to Continue to Create Chaos’

The Atlantic
Subscribe to The Atlantic’s Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. Months before the 2016 U.S.

Questions multiply over Bannon’s role in Trump administration

Washington Post
President Trump’s elevation of his chief political strategist to a major role in national security policy, and a White House order banning refugees from certain Muslim-majority countries from U.S.

Can caste be banned from Indian politics?

Aljazeera.com
In the first days of this year, in a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of India banned political candidates from seeking election on the basis of caste, religion and language.

Ex-warlord could shake up politics

Albany Times Union
The only insurgent leader to sign a peace pact with Afghanistan’s government will return to the country within weeks, his chief negotiator says, in a move that could shake up Afghan politics and complicate the much wider war against the Taliban

Greg Hughes might be the most powerful man in Utah politics, if he could just stay out of trouble

Deseret News
There, a land developer and convicted fraudster named Marc Sessions Jenson was testifying in a hearing connected to the political corruption case against former Utah Attorney General John Swallow. Jenson said that on several occasions he met with …

Open doors, slamming gates: The tumultuous politics of US immigration policy

Washington Post
In his farewell address to the nation in 1989, President Ronald Reagan told the story of a Navy sailor patrolling the South China Sea who came upon a “leaky little boat” crammed with refugees from Indochina trying to find a way to America.

President Trump hits majority disapproval in record time, Gallup finds

Los Angeles Times
President Trump’s actions during his first week in office have appeared to be aimed at the voters who already supported him, not at reaching out to the rest, and that’s taken a rapid toll on his support, which was already historically low.

WSJ’s Daily Shot: US Politics Get Chaotic, But Markets Don’t Care…Yet

Wall Street Journal (blog)
Fitch downgraded Turkey’s government debt to junk, focusing (among other things) on deteriorating political situation and the weakening independence of the nation’s institutions.

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