Cory Booker Has a Betsy DeVos Problem
Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker speaks during groundbreaking ceremonies for a mixed-use complex of charter schools and teachers housing on Feb. 9, 2012.Mel Evans/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the spring of 2012, Cory Booker delivered the keynote address at the third annual School Choice Policy Summit at a…
What It Was Like to Watch Stacey Abrams’ SOTU Response With Her Biggest Fans
Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When I profiled Stacey Abrams for Mother Jones last year, before she won the Democratic primary for governor, she seemed like Georgia’s best kept secret. Now, in her home base of Atlanta, on the eve of arguably the most important speech of her political…
David Duke Has a New Favorite Candidate for 2020: Tulsi Gabbard
Win McNamee/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since launching her campaign for president on January 11, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has had to weather one controversy after another, from a shakeup in her campaign leadership to resurfaced allegations of her ties with nationalists and foreign autocrats. Tuesday brought more…
Howard Schultz Has No Good Explanation for Why He’s Mulling an Independent Presidential Bid
Kathy Willens/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to…
Sherrod Brown Could Be Bernie Sanders’ Biggest Threat in 2020
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, Sherrod Brown didn’t want to be president. “I know you don’t believe this, but I don’t really think about it all that much,” he told the Washington Post at the time. Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, a longtime friend of the Ohio…
Kamala Harris’ Presidential Run Will Force Democrats to Decide Where They Really Stand on Criminal Justice
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s finally official: Kamala Harris is running for president. She made the announcement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, meaning that the biracial junior senator from California is only the third black woman (after Shirley Chisholm and Carol Moseley-Braun) and second Indian-American (after…