For Black Americans, It’s Not a Housing Crisis. It’s a Chronic Condition.
Donte Bruce holds the US flag during a 2000 march in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles to demand fair housing for low-income communities.Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Redlining is widely seen as the source of the vast disparities in housing and homeownership between white and Black Americans. Denied access to government-backed mortgages,…
Elizabeth Warren’s New Bankruptcy Plan Is a Big Dig at Joe Biden
Chris Carlson/Associated Press On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren released a plan for, in her campaign’s words, “fixing our bankruptcy system to give people a second chance.” Warren, who taught bankruptcy law at Harvard and spent years as a consumer advocate on the matter, is returning to the issue that drew her into politics. But less than one…
Republicans in Congress Urge Supreme Court to Reconsider Roe
Republican Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota both signed a brief urging the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade.J. Scott Applewhite/AP More than 200 Republicans in Congress are asking the Supreme Court to reconsider the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, which established the constitutional right to an abortion in…
Julián Castro Just Dropped Out of the Presidential Race
Paul Boucher/ZUMA Wire Former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Thursday morning. Castro, who served as Housing and Urban Development secretary under President Barack Obama, told supporters in a video that “it simply isn’t our time.” It’s with profound gratitude to all of our supporters that I suspend…
Will Small Farmers’ Beef With Trump Sway the 2020 Election?
Marco Cibola On an October morning, two men and a woman wearing cowboy hats, bearing American flags, and sitting atop horses rode into a windowless conference room in the depths of a Ramada Inn on the edge of Omaha. When they reached the front of the room and faced the crowd of about 500 ranchers,…
Ivanka Trump May Leave the White House Even If Her Father Wins a Second Term
Bill Ingalls/NASA via ZUMA Win or lose, Ivanka Trump may be leaving the White House in 2020. Trump has worked as her father’s adviser during his first term and signaled during an interview on Face the Nation that she would consider leaving the White House even if President Donald Trump wins re-election. It all depends on her…