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…
Trump Rants About Pelosi, Crime, and Climate Change in Sunday Morning Twitter Blast
President Donald Trump makes remarks to the media as he prepares to depart the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday, January 19.Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two years ago today, before a crowd of debatable size, President Donald Trump stood on the steps of…
Tulsi Gabbard Is Running for President. Can She Shake Her Ties to Dictators and Nationalists?
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) at a news conference in Washington on May 17, 2018. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) will run for president, she announced Friday, entering a soon-to-be-crowded field of Democrats hoping to unseat Donald Trump. But Gabbard will stand…
Schumer: President Stormed Out of Shutdown Talks in a “Temper Tantrum”
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump walked out of the latest round of negotiations to end the partial government shutdown after Democratic leaders continued to refuse his demands for funds to build a border wall, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday. Schumer, who along with…