On Wednesday—two weeks after a gunman killed 17 students and teachers at a school in Parkland, FL—a church in…
Emma Roller
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Senior politics reporter at Splinter.
Ben Carson—the esteemed neurosurgeon turned failed Republican presidential candidate turned secretary of Housing and…
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The 2020 Democratic presidential primary is shaping up to be as crowded as a Philadelphia light pole.
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