The Rent’s Too Damn High Everywhere. Can This California Ballot Measure Do Something About It?
Southern California mobilizers supporting Bakersfield renters ride on the Yes on 10 bus. Silvia Flores/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In California, where residents have been wrestling with one of the worst housing crises in the country, a ballot measure to repeal the state’s limits on rent…
These Prisoners Locked Up for Life as Children Could Have a Chance at Freedom After the Midterms
A juvenile lifer in Michigan wears handcuffs as he appears for his resentencing hearing at the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids in September 2016. Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kevin Boyd distracts himself these days by running 10Ks around the track. Or…
Trump Accuses Oprah of Burning Tapes That Don’t Exist to Hide Interview That Never Happened
Chris Kleponis/CNP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid a fact-free tirade against Georgia’s gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, President Donald Trump on Sunday falsely accused Oprah Winfrey of attempting to “burn” tapes showing Trump appearing in the final days of the iconic Oprah Winfrey Show. “I was on her full show…
Barack Obama Tells Voters Exactly Why Donald Trump Is Stoking Fears About the “Caravan”
Bastiaan Slabbers/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former President Barack Obama on Sunday mocked his successor’s efforts to fear-monger over the so-called “caravan” of migrants coming to the United States, warning supporters that such tactics were designed to distract from larger Republican goals, including scaling back health care access and…
Anti-Clean Energy Groups Have Come Up With a Way to Show They Have Grassroots Support
Leah Nash for the Washington Post via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Javier Torres Jimenez was surprised to find his South Seattle grocery store, Mi Ranchito, on a list of Latino businesses opposing a…
The US Has Never Had a Native American Governor. This Idaho Progressive May Change That Tuesday.
Madeline Scott/Jordan for Governor Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At first glance, Paulette Jordan seems like an improbable choice for Idaho governor. She’s a young Native American woman running on a progressive platform in a state that has never had a governor who wasn’t a white man and hasn’t elected…