Trump Just Lost Another Election In California
Jessica Patterson speaks to delegates at the California Republican Party convention in Sacramento, California.Steve Yeater/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, around 1,500 members of the California Republican Party gathered in Sacramento, California, for their 2019 convention’s main event: a debate between three candidates locked in a divisive battle…
Oakland Teachers Are Still on Strike. What Are Parents Doing With Their Kids?
Magdaline Armstrong (right), a first-grade teacher, and her eight-year-old daughter, Nilaya, eight, picket outside Futures Elementary School.Rosa Furneaux/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, before thousands of Oakland teachers went on strike to call for more pay and smaller class sizes, teachers’ union president Keith Brown asked parents…
The New Chief Campaign Finance Regulator Has a Plan to Make Her Agency Matter for the First Time in Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ellen Weintraub, the sole Democratic commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, just became chairwoman of the agency in January and she’s already trying to shake things up at her “dysfunctional” agency. The FEC chairmanship, which rotates among the commissioners each year, is mostly a ceremonial…
Hundreds of Young Protesters Confront McConnell Over Green New Deal
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of youth climate activists marched on Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s Washington office and 42 of them were arrested by police, according to organizers. The protesters—who…
Elizabeth Warren Announces Plan to Reject Big Donors
Larry Burton Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has decided to up the ante with her latest campaign finance pledge: No more fancy fundraising dinners, donor calls, or wooing wealthy donors. The 2020 Democratic candidate announced on Monday that her campaign “will be run on the principle of equal…
Is MMT the Liberal Version of Supply-Side Economics?
US Bureau of Engraving and Printing Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An interesting contrast between liberals and conservatives is playing out right now. Conservatives, as you probably recall, faced a problem 40 years ago: their concern over budget deficits always made them the bad guy. Democrats could spend with abandon,…