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…
Trump Is Spoiling for Yet Another Big Fight Over Border Wall Funding
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving for Alabama to survey areas devastated by powerful tornadoes, in Washington D.C., on March 8, 2019. Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump will again plunge the nation into a bitter fight and more uncertainty…
Jay Inslee Calls for the Nuclear Option to Combat Climate Change
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) launched his 2020 presidential campaign at a local solar energy company in Seattle on March 1.Paul Christian Gordon/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democratic presidential candidate focused on climate change, argued Sunday that the Senate will have to abolish the…
Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Flock to South by Southwest Festival
Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Presidential hopefuls are lining up in Austin, Texas, this weekend to appear at the trendy tech gathering known as South by Southwest (SXSW). The yearly weekend festival that features new technology, music, and film premieres attracts a young and liberal crowd that candidates…