There’s a Lot More to Investigate Than Just Russia
Sergei Malgavko/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the frustrations of investigative reporting is that usually you don’t see the impact of your work until much later—if at all. That’s why it was remarkable when, earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…
How Court-Packing Went From a Fringe Idea to a Serious Democratic Proposal
Protesters rally at the US Capitol hours before the Senate vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on October 6, 2018. Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The whole thing started at a town hall in Philadelphia last month with Democratic presidential hopeful…
“I’m Fighting for My Future”—A Climate Change Generation Is Making Itself Heard
Greta Thunberg, climate activist, who inspired global strikes.Daniel Bockwoldt/DPA via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2040, Haven Coleman will be 33 years old. Having grown up in Colorado, she may have left the state to attend college or start her career, but wherever she goes will be…
This 2005 Vote Could Come Back to Haunt Sanders in the Democratic Primary
Rick Majewski/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, Bernie Sanders had one vulnerability as a progressive reformer: guns. As the Democratic Party had moved to the left on the issue, embracing gun control in the years after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary…
On the Death Penalty, John Hickenlooper May Have Tried Too Hard to Find a Middle Ground
David Zalubowski/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In December 1993, 19-year-old Nathan Dunlap, who had recently been fired from a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Aurora, Colorado, shot five of his former colleagues—only one survived. The public was shocked by the gruesome and senseless nature of the murders in a…
Trump Continues Stirring Dangerous Hatred of the Media
Speaking at CPAC on March 2, 2019Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid the constant deluge of wild political news and Trump White House scandals, the president’s disturbing attacks on the press seem to draw less and less notice. (Which is not a coincidence.) Yet Trump’s taunts have continued…