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…
Elizabeth Warren Goes After Free Trade Agreements in First Speech as 2020 Contender
On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) gave a speech detailing her views on foreign policy, in an unofficial preview of what might come for her 2020 platform should she run for president. And she kicked it off with an attack on the free trade policies that have dominated Washington. “For decades, the leaders of both parties preached the…
What the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Wrong
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg places some items in her bag before speaking at Georgetown Law School, Friday, April 6, 2018, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the Basis of Sex, a feature film on the pioneering legal work of Supreme Court Justice Ruth…
Donald Trump Has a Sneaky New Way To Help Religious Employers Deny Women Birth Control
areeya_ann/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two years, the Trump administration has been trying to gut access to birth control coverage for women: It proposed rules that would allow almost any employer to claim moral or religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate of…