If UK voters opt to leave the EU, the fundamental cause will be the long-term failure of the British political leadership to make a real case for the U.K.'s EU membership on anything other than instrumental grounds.
In the lead-up to a political cartoon and satire festival on Duke’s campus this fall, members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists have agreed to let Campaign Stop republish their work. Today’s work is produced by the Charlotte Observer’s Kevin Siers, who joined the paper in 1987 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2014.
In the same way that Donald Trump has thus far benefitted from a visceral connection with angry Republican primary voters, the Orlando attacks may provide him with an opening for a similar connection with angry general election voters. That would compound an already horrible tragedy.
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If UK voters opt to leave the EU, the fundamental cause will be the long-term failure of the British political leadership to make a real case for the U.K.'s EU membership on anything other than instrumental grounds.
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In the lead-up to a political cartoon and satire festival on Duke’s campus this fall, members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists have agreed to let Campaign Stop republish their work. Today’s work is produced by the Charlotte Observer’s Kevin Siers, who joined the paper in 1987 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2014.
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In the same way that Donald Trump has thus far benefitted from a visceral connection with angry Republican primary voters, the Orlando attacks may provide him with an opening for a similar connection with angry general election voters. That would compound an already horrible tragedy.
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