Farmers at the Iowa State Fair Say They’re Backing Trump’s Trade War
A man trips a sheep before showing it at the Iowa State Fair.Jack Kurtz/Zuma Beneath a blazing mid-August sun at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines last week, liberal voters crowded around the Des Moines Register’s political soapbox to hear the Democratic presidential candidates speak. Meanwhile, on the other side of the fairground, farmers…
How Worried Are People About Climate Change?
I was on the phone with my editor yesterday and we happened to get on the topic of public opinion about climate change. I thought that concern about climate change had peaked around 2006-08 after Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth tour, while she thought it was peaking now. Gallup has a series of questions about climate…
Democrats Need to Get Smart on Immigration
Peter Shuck thinks Democrats are right to favor legal status for millions of undocumented workers, including Dreamers. He also believes we should legally admit “many more” than the 1.1 million we do now. He also wants to raise refugee admissions to 75,000. But he also thinks Democrats should take enforcement of immigration laws more seriously:…
Trump Fat-Shamed a Supporter. It Went Just How You Would Imagine.
Preston Ehrler/Zuma President Donald Trump ridiculed a man’s weight at a Thursday night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire. “That guy’s got a serious weight problem. Go home. Start exercising,” Trump said as protestors were being led out of the venue, according to the Associated Press. “Got a bigger problem than I do.” But it turns…
Michael Flynn Wants a Judge to Allow Him to Travel to a Conference Held by a QAnon Fan
Michael Flynn leaves court on June 24, 2019 in Washington.Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images Michael Flynn wants a judge to allow him to travel to Atlanta to raise money at an event organized by a QAnon supporter. Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor before he…
LA Democratic Party Turns On One of Its Own
Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images via ZUMA Last month I wrote about LA County’s newly-elected sheriff, Alex Villanueva, whose top priority since taking office has been a project to reinstate deputies who were fired for things like domestic violence, using unreasonable force, lying, and so forth. Earlier this week, even the Democratic Party had finally had enough:…