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…
Trump’s “Rogue Killers” Theory Shows a President Once Again Eager to Defend Authoritarians
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump appeared all too eager to accept the blanket denials by the Saudi Arabian government that it had any involvement in the disappearance, and likely murder, of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “It sounded to me like it could have been rogue killers,…
President Trump Just Visited the Trail of Devastation Hurricane Michael Left Behind
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump headed to Florida to tour the areas affected by Hurricane Michael. Last week, the storm made landfall as a powerful Category 4 in Florida’s Panhandle, leaving behind a wake of devastation and destruction. Will be leaving for Florida and…
Republicans Are Spending Unprecedented Sums to Attack Democrats on Immigration
President Donald Trump speaking at a June rally in Fargo, North Dakota, where he attacked Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s record on immigration. Jim Mone/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There is a simple reason why Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s views on sanctuary cities shouldn’t have a major impact on North Dakota voters:…
The Inflation Rate is Holding Pretty Steady These Days
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Apropos of nothing in particular except the tedium of today’s news, here’s a chart that shows not the historical growth of inflation, but the acceleration of inflation. That is, the growth of the growth rate from year to year. To make the chart readable, I’ve…