Eric Trump Stands to Profit Bigly From Sweetheart Real Estate Deal With His Dad
Santiago Hafford/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and The Real Deal. President Donald Trump’s son Eric is preparing to capitalize on a windfall he received from his father during the presidential campaign: He’s combining three luxury Manhattan high-rise apartments, one of which he…
The Most Important Election of 2018 Might Be Happening in Maryland
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ben Jealous was in a hurry. It was a Sunday morning in early June and he had just addressed a few thousand Bernie Sanders followers at the People’s Summit, a Chicago gathering of lefty organizers. It had been a long weekend of workshops and plenaries…
These 7 Primary Fights Will Shape the Future of the Democratic Party
Mother Jones illustration; wakila/getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With 10 Democrats up for reelection in states Donald Trump won, the party needs a lot to go right if it’s going to take back the Senate this year. But at least one big thing already has: The most vulnerable Democratic…
Republicans Are Trying to Kill a Key Voting Rights Law
Student Anne Harris register to vote Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, at Lake Michigan College, in Benton Harbor, Mich. Herald-Palladium via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thirty years ago, the United States had a big problem. Barely half of eligible voters had cast a ballot in the 1988 presidential election—the…
Patriots Games, Birthday Bashes, and Vicious Tweets: Trump and Romney’s Failed Bromance
John Angelillo/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced his retirement from the US Senate on Tuesday, President Donald Trump marked the occasion with a Tweet that congratulated Hatch and called the senator a “tremendous supporter” and “friend.” Congratulations to Senator Orrin Hatch on an absolutely incredible…
Republicans Just Won Control of the Virginia House—in a Random Drawing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans will hold on to their majority in Virginia’s House of Delegates by the narrowest of margins, 51-49—all because their candidate’s name was drawn from a bowl. The outcome of the Hampton Roads-area 94th district race had seesawed back and forth since Election Day. Incumbent…