Trump Is Making an Ass of Himself Over the Shutdown
Chris Kleponis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things aren’t looking good for President Trump. The government shutdown—for which the public mostly blames him, despite his claims to the contrary—is now in its 16th day. Democrats are officially in charge of the House. Trump has made no progress on securing funding…
Beto O’Rourke Says He’s “Supportive of the Concept” of a Green New Deal
The term surged into mainstream political discourse just two months ago when activists staged a protest in now–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, demanding that the incoming Democratic majority in the House champion a sweeping climate policy to zero out greenhouse gas emissions and combat worsening income inequality. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) proposed a resolution to…
Trump and Social Media Could Be An Even More Dangerous Combination in 2019
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A country riven by ethnic tension. Spontaneous organizing fueled by viral memes. Hateful fake-news posts about “terrorism” from marginalized groups inciting violence and riots. It’s a story we’ve seen play out around the world recently, from France and Germany to Burma, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria.…
Beto O’Rourke Slams Trump Over Government Shutdown
Rep Beto O’Rourke at a rally in November.Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an email to his supporters on Saturday, outgoing Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke condemned President Trump for his handling of the government shutdown and attacking the country’s democratic institutions. “This shutdown—hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans working without pay…
How Donald Trump Has Made Christmas With Relatives Even Worse
AntonioGuillem/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s the time of year when families mingle, for all that entails, so we reached out to readers to ask how political differences among relatives have affected their holidays. Specifically, we asked whether anyone had kept quiet about their midterm votes in order to…
At Bernie Sanders’ Big Climate Change Town Hall, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steals the Show
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bernie Sanders didn’t have to remind the hundreds of activists, young people, policy wonks, and thousands of viewers online watching his climate change town hall Monday night of “the great crisis facing our planet and facing our humanity.” That was one of the central…