Elizabeth Warren’s Protégée Is Running for Congress in Orange County—and Might Actually Win
Bill Clark/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Katie Porter was a rookie law professor at the University of Iowa in 2006 when she started asking questions about mortgage fraud. Egged on by a $100 million lobbying campaign from the financial services industry, Congress had recently overhauled federal bankruptcy laws,…
What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and the Right-Wingers Prevailed?
Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nature’s rights, universal basic income, keeping money out of politics: These are some of the principles guiding a coalition of left-wing Californians who want to serve as the “progressive voice” at a convention—which they believe is inevitable—to amend the United States Constitution.…
Key Arizona Republican Freaks Out Over “Another Generation of DACA-like People”
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a House hearing on immigration Tuesday, Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) accused most asylum seekers of immigration fraud and suggested that unaccompanied children who reach the United States are likely to become MS-13 gang members. She warned that if the asylum…
Dark-Money Group Targets Devin Nunes for Attacking “Conservative Hero” Jeff Sessions
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new radio ad is attacking Trump loyalist Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) for feuding with another Trump loyalist, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom the ad describes as “a conservative hero. An icon. A legend.” Earlier this month, Nunes, the…
Congress Prepares to Undermine Trump on Trade
Two weeks before the presidential election, Donald Trump flew into a faded textile town in North Carolina and riled up the crowd over one of his campaign’s signature promises: bringing back the jobs that businesses had shipped overseas. “They wouldn’t be doing it if I was president,” Trump said to cheers. “Believe me, when they…
“We Wouldn’t Need the Suicide Hotline If Dairy Farmers Were Getting Paid What They Deserve”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brenda Cochran was a self-described “city girl” before she married her husband in 1973. He was a dairy farmer, so she joined him on a small farm in Pennsylvania. They’ve been working together since 1975. Cochran says that if she’d known how difficult dairy farming…