Critics of the Green New Deal Rail Against Socialism. We’ve Seen This Before.
NurPhoto/Getty Images This story was originally published by High Country News and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Green New Deal and its proponents aim to tackle the intertwined issues of social and environmental justice in our age of anthropogenic climate change. To accomplish this, they believe they must deploy the federal government, since it…
Rep. Ilhan Omar Keeps Getting Death Threats
Douglas Christian/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, federal court filings revealed that a New York man, Patrick W. Carlineo, had been arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder Representative Ilhan Omar. The Democratic congresswoman, who represents a Minneapolis-based district, was first elected to Congress in 2018,…
Senate Democrats Urge FBI to Assess Security at Mar-a-Lago
Mar-a-Lago on April 03, 2019.Joe Raedle/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three senior Senate Democrats want the FBI to evaluate the national security risks posed by vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago in the wake of the recent arrest there of a Chinese national, Yujing Zhang. Zhang had allegedly gained entry to Donald…
Tammy Duckworth Forced Airlines to Report When They Break Wheelchairs. Hers Ended Up on the List.
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In December, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) caught a flight back to Washington after surveying tornado damage in her home state only to discover that, for at least the third time in three years, the wheelchair she relies on…
House Democrats Will Subpoena Mueller Report
Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House Democrats say they will vote this week to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s complete report, underlying evidence, and other material—rejecting as insufficient Attorney General William Barr’s pledge to produce a redacted version of the report later this month. House Judiciary…
Trump Has a New Favorite “Slush Fund”
David Norquist, the acting deputy secretary of defense, testifies before Congress on the Pentagon’s FY2019 budget request. Zach Gibson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Pentagon’s latest budget request contains all the usual line items one might expect from a fighting force that is reorienting and modernizing to compete with…