Pelosi Condemns Trump’s 9/11 Attack on Ilhan Omar: His “Rhetoric Creates Real Danger”
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday denounced President Donald Trump’s recent video attack against Rep. Ilhan Omar, which combined remarks given by Omar during a Muslim civil rights event with graphic images of the attacks on September 11th, and demanded that the president remove the video from his social…
Mayor Pete Buttigieg Officially Kicks Off His Presidential Campaign in South Bend, Indiana
Preston Ehrler/ZUMA Wire Pete Buttigieg launched his presidential campaign on Sunday afternoon, in the city he helms as mayor, South Bend, Indiana—officially joining a big, diverse field of Democrats vying to topple President Donald Trump in 2020. Buttigieg fans clad in rain gear packed an old Studebaker building in South Bend for the announcement, a…
A Note About Trump’s Asylum Tweets
I assumed everyone knew this, but now I’m beginning to wonder. So: this whole business of busing asylum seekers to sanctuary cities is just Donald Trump trolling the Democrats. You all get this, don’t you? It’s not actually a serious proposal that anyone needs to analyze. It’s aimed at his base, which thinks this is…
Kamala Harris Releases 15 Years of Tax Returns
Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released 15 years of her tax returns on Sunday morning, the latest in a steady trickle of Democratic presidential candidates to make the financial disclosure. According to her returns, Harris and her husband lawyer Douglas Emhoff made nearly $1.9 million together in 2018. Harris reported an income of…
White House Chaos Continues as Trump Claims “Absolute Legal Right” on Sanctuary Cities Proposal
Pete Marovich/CNP/ZUMA Wire In a late night tweet on Saturday, President Donald Trump added fuel to his latest immigration row, declaring the United States had “absolute legal right” to send migrants detained at the border to various sanctuary cities throughout the country. The president also demanded that California, a heavily blue-leaning state he has publicly…
A Death, a Life, and a Border Wall
The border wall between the USA and Mexico in Arizona.Getty Images In the fall of 1993, Aaron Bobrow-Strain arrived in Tucson, Arizona, near the jagged ridge of the United States’ southern border. Dominating the news was debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would be passed by the House that November. As Bobrow-Strain settled…