High Court Kicks Silicon Valley Investor’s Plan to Split Up California Off Ballot
Venture capitalist Tim Draper points to a computer screen at his offices in San Mateo, Calif., showing that an initiative to split California into three states qualified for the ballot.Haven Daley/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California voters will no longer have the option to vote on splitting the largest state in…
“I’m Rested and Ready to Fight”—The Reverend Barber’s Battle Cry Is One for the Ages
Anne Wernikoff Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reverend William Barber II was born just two days after the historic March on Washington, and he went on to become one of the most prominent civil rights leaders in the South. Now, fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr’s first Poor People’s…
Alabama Republican Who Refused to Back Trump Survives Brutal Primary
Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., attends a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Justice.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After an unusually fractious debate among Republicans about Rep. Martha Roby’s fealty to President Donald Trump—which resulted in a bitter runoff for the GOP nomination…
California’s Most Powerful Latino Politician is Trying to Unseat Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the leadership of California’s Democratic Party endorsed state Sen. Kevin de León in his campaign to oust Sen. Dianne Feinstein. It was an upset—not least because Feinstein has been in office since 1992. She won 44 percent of the vote in California’s primary election…
He’s Running as a Hero of the Opioid Epidemic. Here’s the Catch.
Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ/ZUMA; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid calls to “drain the swamp” and “reinvent” Washington, Patrick Morrisey—the West Virginia Republican running for US Senate—often brags that no one has done more than he has to address the state’s devastating opioid epidemic. Since first working on opioid issues in 2013,…
Obama’s Homeland Security Chief Just Waded Into the “Abolish ICE” Fight
Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last few weeks, fueled by Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary upset in New York and and a frenzy of damning stories about the Trump administration’s immigration policies, calls to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency…