Here’s How Democrats Should Investigate Trump, From the Congressman Who Investigated Bush
Alex Wong/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twelve years ago, Democrats won control of Congress in a landslide midterm election. It was six years into the unpopular George W. Bush administration. The war in Iraq was dragging on, the administration had bungled its response to Hurricane Katrina, and a top…
Can Georgia’s “Hipster Mayor” Help America Embrace Refugees Again?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On a sweltering July 4 evening, with mosquitoes out in force, Mayor Ted Terry presided over the grill at Clarkston, Georgia’s annual Independence Day pool party. Nigerian pop blared from loudspeakers as a group of women in hijabs sat in the shade, talking and laughing.…
How Trump’s Latest Attack on Transgender Rights Will “Inflict Significant Harm”
Demonstrators gather in front of the White House on Monday to protest the administration’s new memo on defining a person’s sex.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Department of Health and Human Services proposal urging federal agencies to narrow the legal definition of a person’s sex “stands to inflict…
Unleash the Investigations! What Dems Could Do If They Win the House.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Doug ChaykaIf Democrats win one or both houses of Congress in November, they’ll have a real say in how the country is run for the first time since Donald Trump’s inauguration. Even if the White House and the GOP won’t cooperate with them, there are…
A Quick Correction of Donald Trump’s Standard Stump Speech
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LAT Poll: Democrats Still Far Ahead in Congressional Races
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The latest LA Times generic congressional poll of likely voters shows that apparently nothing—not Brett Kavanaugh, not Jamal Khashoggi, not North Korea, not NAFTA—has changed how we’re planning to vote this year: Back in January, Democrats led in the LAT poll by about 12 points.…