Major Labor Strikes Surged in 2019
Thousands of teachers and their supporters march through downtown Raleigh, North Carolina during a one-day strike in May 2019.Ethan Hyman/ZUMA Last May, for the second year in a row, thousands of North Carolina public school teachers marched to the state Capitol in red t-shirts to demand better funding for public schools and Medicaid. In part…
Joe Biden Had a Bad Night in New Hampshire. His Supporters There Hope Their State Doesn’t Matter.
Matt Rourke/AP It’s never a good sign when you’re addressing your New Hampshire supporters on primary night from South Carolina. Yet this was the position Joe Biden found himself in on Tuesday evening as his campaign sought to downplay his dismal showing in the Granite State, where he was on pace to finish 5th with…
The Democratic Primary Is About to Get Wild After New Hampshire
Bernie Sanders speaks at a primary night election rally in Manchester, NH.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Sorry, New Hampshire. A conventional rule of American politics is that the Granite State imposes order on the presidential campaign, with one of the top two finishers in its first-in-the-nation primary always going on to snag the nomination. But not this…
Bernie Sanders Wins the New Hampshire Primary
Steven Senne/AP Sen. Bernie Sanders has won Tuesday’s New Hampshire Democratic primary, according to multiple news outlets. Tuesday marks Sanders’ second primary win in New Hampshire, which borders his home state of Vermont. Sanders defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the state’s 2016 primary with more than 60 percent of the vote. Sanders…
The Big Winner in New Hampshire Is . . . Amy Klobuchar?
CNN As we all know, the key to winning the media race is to do “better than expected.” By that measure, Amy Klobuchar blew away the competition in New Hampshire tonight. She went from 9 percent in the weekend polls to 12 percent in the final polls to 20 percent in the actual voting. That’s…
As the Democrats Await Results From New Hampshire, Trump Has Taken to Twitter
Mother Jones illustration As results from the New Hampshire Democratic primary rolled in Tuesday night, President Donald Trump—who, despite doing very bad things earlier in the day, strode to an easy victory in the state’s Republican Primary—took to Twitter with a string of unhinged remarks about Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, John Podesta, and Elizabeth Warren.…