The US Has No Decent Paid Sick Leave Policy. This Bill Attempts to Change That.
Chef preparing vine tomatoes, Antigua, Guatemala, Joe Schmelzer/Cultura Exclusive via Getty As the coronavirus continues to spread to more communities in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control has warned workers to stay home if they are feeling sick. The CDC recommended that employers “actively encourage sick employees to stay home” and maintain flexible…
Without Missing a Beat, Elizabeth Warren Vows to Take on Gender Politics
Steven Senne/AP As her dog Bailey watched curiously from the window, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday greeted reporters outside her home in Cambridge to confirm the inevitable: The former Harvard law professor and brief Democratic 2020 presidential frontrunner was suspending her campaign. It was a decision that had become all but certain following her…
She Has Endorsements. She Has Plans. But Warren Is in 4th Place Among Black Voters in South Carolina.
Elizabeth Warren stands with South Carolina state representative Wendy Brawley, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Columbia, South Carolina, city councilwoman Tameika Isaac Devine after an event in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 24, 2020.Patrick Semansky/AP When Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza took to the stage at Monday’s “Women for Warren” event in downtown Charleston,…
The Sanders Campaign Makes Its Case to South Carolina’s Black Voters
Sen. Bernie Sanders poses for a selfie in Denmark, South Carolina, in May 2019.Richard Ellis/Zuma On Saturday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign nearly filled a fellowship hall inside the First Calvary Baptist Church in Waverly, a historically black neighborhood in Columbia, South Carolina. The rally was just down the street from where George Elmore, the…
Bernie Sanders Wins the Nevada Caucuses
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Bernie Sanders has won Nevada’s Saturday caucuses, notching another victory on his quest to secure the Democratic nomination. His campaign counted on a massive field organization to turn out early voters, especially among Latinos, but it appears he also won most of the key day-of caucus sites staged at major hotels and…
Inside the Fight to Topple Lindsey Graham—and Trump’s Senate Majority
With a cheery drawl and an expression somewhere between exhausted and dead-eyed, Lindsey Graham spent a Sunday morning in November rattling off the greatest hits of GOP impeachment conspiracy theories before most Americans had finished their second cups of coffee. “When you find out who the whistleblower is, I’m confident you’re going to find out…