California’s Wildfire Policy Totally Backfired. Native Communities Know How to Fix It.
When it came time to set fire to the hillside, Kitty Lynch paused. A 70 year-old retired waitress, Lynch’s job during the controlled burn of a 2,200 acre ranch in Humboldt County, California this June was to keep the fire in check by tamping down small, errant flames with a tool called a McLeod. Lynch…
Appealing to Black Voters in South Carolina, Elizabeth Warren Fires Up White Liberals
Elizabeth Warren addresses a crowd at Clinton College, an HBCU in Rock Hill, S.C., on September 28, 2019.Meg Kinnard/AP Elizabeth Warren came to the South Carolina Lowcountry on Saturday and played all the standards. At a town hall in Goose Creek, about 20 miles north of Charleston, she talked about corporate greed and government decisions…
Turns Out, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Huge in Iowa
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stand on stage Friday on the campus of Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs.AP Photo/Nati Harnik Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was welcomed to Iowa with a roast. On Friday, while the first-term Democratic congresswoman from New York was introducing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at a rally in Council Bluffs,…
Trump’s Plot to Kill DACA Arrives in the Supreme Court, and the Protesters Are Here, Too
Georgetown student Anahi Figueroa-Flores, a DACA recipient, speaks during a rally Friday in front of the Supreme Court. Students at area high schools and universities had staged a walkout.Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program arrives in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, trailed by the anger…
Let’s Remember a Trump Official’s Terrible Old Tweet About the Berlin Wall
Jens SchlueterGetty Hey Monica, I saw an old tweet of yours resurface on Saturday to mark the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It’s from 2015, when you were a Fox News commentator and not a flack in the Trump administration, though these days is there any difference? This…
The Standard-Bearer of the Latin American Left Is out of Prison and Ready to Fight
SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, BRAZIL – NOVEMBER 09: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s former president, greets supporters outside of the Sindicato dos Metalurgicos do ABC on November 9, 2019 in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. Pedro Vilela/Getty Images A day after being released from prison, Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the…