The Sunrise Movement Is Taking the Fight to Big Oil’s Home Turf
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., addresses The Road to the Green New Deal Tour final event at Howard University in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2019Cliff Owen / AP Photo This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Sunrise Movement, the youth campaign behind the Green New Deal, called…
The Benefits of Being Joe Biden’s Brother
Joe Biden, is joined by his family including his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, left, his son, Hunter, his wife Jill and his brother Jimmy at a rally in Dubuque, Iowa in 2008Mark Hirsch/AP Photo This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story…
The Presidential Campaign That Made the Least Sense Has Come to an End
supergenijalac/Shutterstock Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick was among the last to arrive in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. And now he’s gone. After earning 0.4 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, Patrick announced Wednesday that he would end his longshot campaign. Patrick joined the race in November 2019; most of the…
The Democratic Primary Is About to Get Wild After New Hampshire
Bernie Sanders speaks at a primary night election rally in Manchester, NH.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Sorry, New Hampshire. A conventional rule of American politics is that the Granite State imposes order on the presidential campaign, with one of the top two finishers in its first-in-the-nation primary always going on to snag the nomination. But not this…
Joe Biden Had a Bad Night in New Hampshire. His Supporters There Hope Their State Doesn’t Matter.
Matt Rourke/AP It’s never a good sign when you’re addressing your New Hampshire supporters on primary night from South Carolina. Yet this was the position Joe Biden found himself in on Tuesday evening as his campaign sought to downplay his dismal showing in the Granite State, where he was on pace to finish 5th with…
Bernie Sanders Wins the New Hampshire Primary
Steven Senne/AP Sen. Bernie Sanders has won Tuesday’s New Hampshire Democratic primary, according to multiple news outlets. Tuesday marks Sanders’ second primary win in New Hampshire, which borders his home state of Vermont. Sanders defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the state’s 2016 primary with more than 60 percent of the vote. Sanders…