Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Had the Perfect Response to People Who Think She’s a “Pretty Idiot”
Dan Herrick/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) doesn’t mince words. In an interview published Sunday in The New Yorker, the 29-year-old congresswoman took aim at her critics, whose attacks, she says, are rising to the level of “ravenous hysteria.” What has made her such a target,…
What Do You Want to Know About the Green New Deal?
Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since then representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined a demonstration pushing for a Green New Deal last year, politicians, pundits, and activists have debated the proposal’s ambitious goals for addressing climate change. In early February, Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution…
A Shadowy Conservative Group Has Started a Billboard War with AOC. She Refuses to Stand Down.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at a news conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Visitors to New York’s Times Square saw a new billboard earlier this week that spelled out the jobs, wages, and economic activity New…
From Hamilton to Beto, Politicians Who Shared a Little More Than We Wanted to Know
President Lyndon Johnson displays the incision from his gallbladder surgery in October 1965.AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her Instant Pot became social media sensations, a few American politicians had dared to share personal tidbits they hoped might endear them to the…
Poll: Likely 2020 Voters Support Parts of Green New Deal, Despite Concerns Over the Cost
The question described the job as a position that would pay “at least $15 an hour, included healthcare benefits, and collective bargaining rights.” The surveyors added that Republicans warned the policy “would increase the national debt, endanger the long term health of our economy, and this policy will end up paying people who can’t contribute in…
A Private Prison CEO Is “Hopeful” About the Budget Deal’s Boost for ICE Detention
A guard at the Adelanto Detention Facility, an ICE detention center run by the GEO GroupJohn Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As a congressional deal on border security funding came closer to passing yesterday, the CEO of the country’s largest private prison company told shareholders that he expects the…