Ian Reifowitz's Profile
I am the author of Obama's America: A Transformative Vision of Our National Identity (Potomac Books), and I am professor of Historical Studies at S.U.N.Y.-Empire State College.
Groups: Daily Kos, DK Fans of 90 for 90, 50 State Strategy Project
Home Page: http://www.ianreifowitz.com/Ian_Reifowitz/Welcome.html
Twitter: @IanReifowitz
Diaries published: 595 (6 days since last diary on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 11:15 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 15742 (0 days since last comment on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 05:03 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 44719
Total Comment Ratings: 4148
Most Recommended Diary: Every voter needs to know this about Ted Cruz, 416 comments, 623 recommends
People Following Ian Reifowitz: 420
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A new report issued this week details a fascinating, real-life experiment. Imagine, for a second, if New York City had announced that, after years of NYPD officers stopping hundreds of thousands of people—overwhelmingly black and Latino, almost nine...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 11:15 AM PDT
with 135 Recommends
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But let's give it a shot. This week the nonpartisan Congressional Budget ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun May 28, 2017 at 12:01 PM PDT
with 97 Recommends
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For all his crocodile tears, the media has always graded popular vote loser Donald Trump on a curve. Oh, he read a speech to Congress that didn’t include him spewing insults? How frickin’ presidential! The latest example of this relates to Zombie...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Thu May 25, 2017 at 09:51 AM PDT
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It shouldn’t be a tough question, even for Republicans. Yet many of them still fail to come up with the right answer.
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun May 21, 2017 at 11:20 AM PDT
with 122 Recommends
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As you maybe, possibly, have heard, the president of our country this week fired the person who was leading the investigation into collusion between his campaign team and a foreign power seeking to ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun May 14, 2017 at 01:30 PM PDT
with 104 Recommends
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Freedom. It’s what the Freedom Caucus TM is all about, their name suggests. And the Freedom Caucus is the group that made its voice heard, the group of Congress members that forced changes to the ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun May 07, 2017 at 07:20 AM PDT
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- DOJ exec gave jobs to friends, retaliated against employees, solicited gifts, doesn't get prosecutedAccording to one hell of an eye-opening report, the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General found that an unnamed (um, why exactly?) senior executive from the Executive Office of Immigration Review, a federal department responsible for adjudicating...15 comments 85 Recs
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- As of Wednesday morning, a search of The New York Times on "Eric Trump Foundation" shows the latest result being from January 6, 2017. That's when Eric Trump stepped down from the foundation that bore his name. The headline to that story: "Hospital...47 comments 98 Recs
- Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was rather reserved in his testimony before Congress, and in his most recent appearance his comments were nearly drowned out by the strong interest in hearing from former acting attorney...66 comments 108 Recs
- Towards the end of the day today I published a diary purporting to show unpopular President Donald Trump ignoring his translating headphones while amongst other world leaders at the G7 Summit in Italy. The story, it turns out, had already been debunked...141 comments 436 Recs
- When Kansas Governor Sam Brownback launched his experiment, he told Kansans that it would be an injection of adrenaline and that the economy would come roaring back to life. But after 5 years, the economy struggles and the state budget is a disaster....369 comments 669 Recs
- A new study of police in Oakland, California, demonstrates what systemic racism looks like. It might be invisible if you examine it one interaction at a time, but Stanford University researchers used body-cam footage to demonstrate that police used...25 comments 84 Recs
- “If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.” Happy Birthday to Marian Wright Edelman Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez This woman has been a tireless ...96 comments 56 Recs
- Chapter 33 of my upcoming book, The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump (pre-order at that link!), is titled “Help the Census Count Everyone.” At first blush, that might seem to be a weird thing to include in a book about anti-Trump activism,...84 comments 204 Recs
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