Will Michael Bloomberg Release His Tax Returns if He Runs for President?
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Donald Trump has enraged Democrats and ethics watchdogs with his ongoing refusal to release his tax returns, but with the possibility of another New York City billionaire mounting a bid for the White House, Trump may not be the only 2020 candidate trying to shield his finances from public scrutiny. On Thursday, supporters…
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Cut Veteran Suicides in Half
Scott Olson/Getty Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) unveiled a wide-ranging plan Tuesday to improve care for America’s veterans, active-duty service members, and their families, proposing to end discrimination toward LGBTQ, immigrant, and HIV-positive troops while substantially increasing the number of staff employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her campaign’s suite of ideas comprise Warren’s most…
Sherrod Brown Decided Not to Run for President. But He Has Big Ideas for How Democrats Could Take Back the Country.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) speaks at a culinary union hall in Las Vegas on February 23, 2019.John Locher/AP Sherrod Brown was going to run for president. But he wrote a book instead. Well, not exactly, the Ohio senator protests when I say as much. “I didn’t think, ‘Well, it’s a presidential primary and we gotta…
Progressive Challengers Hammer Incumbent Dems Over AIG Birthday Party
A man enters an AIG office building in 2009 in New York. American International Group Inc. used federal aid to pay out foreign and domestic banks, some of whom had received their own multibillion-dollar US government bailouts.Mark Lennihan/AP Insurance giant AIG held a 100th birthday party in the House Ways and Means Committee’s hearing room…
Judges Throw Out North Carolina Congressional Maps Ahead of 2020 Elections
Carolyn Kaster / AP North Carolina’s congressional maps were likely designed as “extreme partisan gerrymanders” and must be redrawn before the 2020 election, a panel of three state judges ruled Monday. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by Eric Holder’s group seeking to end gerrymandering. The group challenged maps the Republican state legislature had drawn…
Group Withdraws from Criminal Justice Forum After Giving Award to Trump
Scott Olson/Getty Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was one of ten Democratic presidential candidates slated to attend a bipartisan forum on criminal justice reform in South Carolina when she unexpectedly backed out after the event sponsor gave a “bipartisan justice” award to President Donald Trump. In a Twitter post Friday, the former California prosecutor said she…