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I am an editor and writer specializing in politics, international affairs, public policy and sports. I hold an M.A. in Politics from George Washington University, and I have more than a decade of editorial leadership experience at several top digital news outlets and social media companies.
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The staging of a political redemption story during a crucial party primary might seem an unlikely strategy in this season of referenda on Donald Trump, especially when the protagonist is an ex-con known nationwide for threatening to toss a journalist from a balcony in the U.S. Capitol.
In the early hours of December 11, 2016, while cruising New York City's East Village neighborhood, 25-year-old David Martinez and his friends encountered a problem. Driving down E. 3rd Street, the group suddenly found themselves stuck behind a livery cab.
In Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West, journalist James Pogue investigates the 2016 occupation near Burns, Oregon, in which armed militants seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge demanding the return of federal land to local control.
To find true national reconciliation, we must search deeper than the ballot box.
Kevin Sullivan is a senior editor for RealClearPolitics. Follow him on Twitter @kevinbsullivan. This piece is part of a special RCW series on America's role in the world during the Trump administration. 2016 proved to be a challenging year for globalists.
Today it's among the trendiest neighborhoods in the world. Thirty-five years ago, this forlorn corner of Brooklyn was the epicenter of America's mafia-fueled drug trade.
MONTICELLO, N.Y. -- The cause of death, according to the scuttlebutt at the Miss Monticello Diner, was drugs, and the mournful mood that snowy spring morning in Sullivan County, New York, befit the affair at the funeral home next door.
Queens, N.Y. -- Nothing struck me as especially out of the ordinary about the Bait uz Zafar Mosque in the somewhat suburban neighborhood of Hollis. This Ahmadiyya Muslim center tucked alongside New York City's Grand Central Parkway resembled any other house of worship, and indeed was, at one point in time, a synagogue.
The Obama administration drew criticism in 2011 when one anonymous adviser, in an effort to explain the U.S.'s seemingly subordinate role in the military intervention in Libya, referred to U.S. strategy in the campaign as "leading from behind." The ill-timed and awkwardly crafted comment was dissected and maligned for months in American media circles, prompting eventual pushback and clarification from the administration.
Last week's arrest in Avon, Ohio, of an Emirati man in traditional garb is just the latest reminder of the charged and divisive political atmosphere that seems to permeate the United States this presidential election season, particularly when it comes to Muslims and Middle Easterners.