Beto O’Rourke Just Took the High Road in a Moving Concession Speech in El Paso
YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After narrowly losing to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Tuesday night in one of the country’s most closely watched Senate races, Democratic darling Beto O’Rourke gave a moving concession speech in El Paso, promising to work with “anyone, anytime, anywhere” to continue to be there…
House Dems Already Have Their List of Trump Scandals to Investigate. Here It Is.
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here comes the flood. With the Democrats having won control of the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump and his crew in the White House and assorted federal agencies can expect to be hit by a wave of investigations and subpoena requests from…
Americans of Color Are Way More Likely to Be Environmentalists
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Picture an environmentalist. For many Americans, that prompts an image of someone who’s white, well-educated, and in the middle class. That’s what researchers found…
Is This “Intensely Political Judge” Holding Off on a Major Obamacare Case to Help Republicans in the Midterms?
Michael Lummus talks to the media about his reliance on the Affordable Care Act outside a courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas.Max Faulkner/Star-Telegram via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Six months ago, Republican state attorneys general and governors from 20 states filed a lawsuit in Texas arguing that the entirety…
Here’s What It’s Like When You Can’t Vote in an Election
People gather around the Ben & Jerry’s “Yes on 4” truck to learn about Amendment 4 in Miami, Florida. Wilfredo Lee/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On election day, Susanne Manning plans to wake up early and head to the polls—but not to vote. Manning, 57, can’t cast a ballot because…
The Revenge of the Median Voter Theorem
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at National Review, Henry Olsen has an odd essay. It’s all about moderate Republicans, otherwise known as RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only: Movement types have long been enraged by RINOs’ cool attitude toward tax cutting and social conservatism and their willingness to cooperate…