Cory Booker Promises to Grant Clemency to a Record Number of Nonviolent Drug Offenders
Sen. Cory Booker at a presidential campaign stop in New Hampshire in AprilSteven Senne/AP New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, whose presidential campaign has focused largely on criminal justice reform, just made a big promise to incarcerated people: If elected, he pledged Thursday morning, he would immediately initiate clemency proceedings for roughly 17,000 people in prison…
Want to See How Disinformation Could Play out in 2020? Just Look Overseas.
Employees from Facebook, Google, and Twitter are sworn in at a 2017 Senate hearing on Russian disinformation.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images After the 2016 election, Mark Zuckerberg notoriously dismissed the idea that Facebook had any role in the outcome as “crazy.” Experts were skeptical of his denial, and Zuckerberg officially ate his words the next year when…
Joe Biden’s White Privilege
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA On Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden told a room full of wealthy New York donors about the good old days. When he first arrived in the Senate in the 1970s, Biden recalled, he joined a Democratic caucus that included staunch segregationists, such as Herman Talmadge of Georgia and James Eastland of…
Trump Campaign Purges Pollsters After Devastating Internal Polling Is Leaked
President Donald Trump speaks about expanding health coverage options for small businesses and workers event at the White House on June 13, 2019.Oliver Contreras/AP Just two days before Trump will kick off his reelection bid inside a 20,000-person arena in Orlando, Florida, NBC News and the New York Times reported on Sunday that his campaign has purged…
Trump Tries to Walk Back His Admission That He’d Accept Foreign Election Help
President Donald Trump on Friday attempted to clarify his astonishing admission that he’d be willing to accept damaging information on his political rivals from a foreign government—remarks Democrats, including 2020 candidates, say are clear evidence that the president has yet to learn from the Russia investigation. But in trying to settle the controversy, Trump on…
Elizabeth Warren Just Unveiled a Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Jack Kurtz/Zuma Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a plan Friday to close the racial wealth gap by issuing $7 billion in grants to entrepreneurs of color. The grants could be used for startup capital to support an estimated 100,000 new minority-owned businesses, potentially creating 1.1 million jobs. “Every American should have a fair shot at…