Heitkamp Apologizes for Outing, Misidentifying Sexual Violence Victims
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who is locked in a heated reelection race with Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, ran a campaign ad in several North Dakota newspapers Sunday that listed the names of numerous women that the ad described as survivors of domestic violence,…
Will Kansas Elect Another Republican Even After the Last One Nearly Destroyed Their State?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a nice, busy, colorful chart for you: Paul Krugman was tweeting about Kansas this morning, and now that Sam Brownback’s tenure as governor is over and we have pretty complete economic indicators for his entire disastrous governorship, I figured it was time to take…
This Video Perfectly Captures How the US Failed to Combat Climate Change
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a week of near-nonstop, dire climate news, Vox published a 12-minute video today that painfully illustrates how repeatedly the US failed to make an effective stand against global warming. Beginning, fittingly, with Al Gore—”I’ve been trying to tell this story for 30 years”—the video traces the history of broken…
Saudis Finally Make the Effort to Invent a Lie
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Phil Bredesen Is Testing the Limits of What Democrats Will Put Up With
YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As his party has continued to move farther to the left, Phil Bredesen has had an increasingly uneasy relationship with it, despite being one of Tennessee’s most famous Democrats. But when the former governor and current Senate hopeful issued a statement recently that said he would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh…
New Study Shows the Huge Costs of the Republican War on Obamacare
Alex Edelman/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new report from the investigative arm of Congress shows just how much damage Republican politicians have done by blocking the implementation of a key part of Obamacare. The study, conducted by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, looked at the impact of Medicaid expansion—a core Obamacare…