When Is Medicare 4 All Not Really Medicare 4 All?
Ten candidates squared off in the third Democratic primary debate in Houston on Thursday, September 12. Brian Cahn/ZUMA I know that what I’m about to write is obvious to a lot of people, but I think it’s probably worth making a lot more obvious. Here goes. Elizabeth Warren announced her Medicare for All plan last…
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Cut Veteran Suicides in Half
Scott Olson/Getty Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) unveiled a wide-ranging plan Tuesday to improve care for America’s veterans, active-duty service members, and their families, proposing to end discrimination toward LGBTQ, immigrant, and HIV-positive troops while substantially increasing the number of staff employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her campaign’s suite of ideas comprise Warren’s most…
How Russian Hackers Conquered the World
FangXiaNuo/Getty Before the 2016 US presidential election, most Americans had very little sense of Russia’s hacking capabilities and the extent to which its operatives were causing havoc. But the country’s hackers had been quite active and well known in some communities well before, staging a series of increasingly brazen and destructive attacks against regional rivals,…
Today New Yorkers Have the Power to Overhaul Their Elections
Richard Drew / AP In today’s election, New York City is considering adopting ranked-choice voting. If passed, it will be the largest municipality to adopt the innovate voting process. Ranked-choice voting is basically an “instant runoff”: Voters not only vote for one candidate but rank their preferences. New York City’s version of RCV would, for example,…
Why We Teamed Up With the Weather Channel to Bring You a Different Kind of 2020 Climate Debate
The Weather Channel Over the summer, the Democratic National Committee rejected calls to focus one of its dozen formal debates on the single issue of climate change. The outrage and disappointment from advocates and candidates was immediate: They argued that what could be considered the most important issue facing any president should not be given…
Taxes Are Surprisingly Similar in Texas and California
The LA Times tells us today that conservatives are leaving California for “redder pastures.” As it happens, the piece provides no evidence that this is happening more than usual, or even that conservatives are leaving the state at higher rates than liberals. But it does offer us this: Republicans and conservative voters were nearly three…