A Federal Judge Just Called Out William Barr for Distorting the Mueller Report’s Findings
Attorney General William Barr arrives at the State of the Union address in on February 4. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Attorney General William Barr showed a “lack of candor” in his public descriptions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2020 election, a federal judge said Thursday in a strikingly pointed shot at…
So Your State Declared a Coronavirus Emergency? Here’s What That Means for You.
Rich Pedroncelli/AP On Wednesday, after the state’s first coronavirus death in Placer County, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state would be formalizing its action plan by declaring a state of emergency. “The State of California is deploying every level of government to help identify cases and slow the spread of this coronavirus,” Newsom…
Home Care Workers Are Underpaid, Uninsured, and on the Front Lines of Fighting Coronavirus
ipopba/Getty Etelbina Hauser has a tough job. The 57-year-old immigrant from Honduras and grandmother of 12 makes minimum wage cleaning houses and taking care of a 93-year-old client with dementia in Seattle. But recently, when a nursing home offered her better pay and benefits caring for a dozen residents as a certified nursing assistant, Hauser…
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…
On a Bad Night, Bernie Won Big With Latinx Voters. Here’s How He Did It.
When I first met Oscar Ortiz at his job in downtown Coachella, California, I noticed two things right off the bat. One, he’s very tall—like, 6-foot-enough to make it awkward for this 5-foot reporter to walk next to him and get a microphone anywhere near his mouth. And two, he’s got a pretty chill demeanor—at…
Sometimes the Obvious Thing Is True: Bernie Sanders Is Just Too Liberal
At the risk of stating the obvious—and the even greater risk of stating it a little too obviously—the most likely reason that Bernie Sanders is losing has nothing to do with his strategy or his toxic followers or Elizabeth Warren refusing to drop out. It’s because he’s too liberal. That’s it. Even among Democrats, there’s…