House Impeachment Managers Started the Day by Slamming Trump’s White House Counsel
Bill Clark/AP Three hours before the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump was set to begin in the Senate, the House impeachment managers sent a letter to Trump’s lawyer, Pat Cipollone, accusing him of being a “material witness” in the case and demanding that he disclose any first-hand knowledge of evidence that he will present…
Ukrainegate Is All About a Personal Benefit
Erin Scott/CNP via ZUMA Scott Jennings, a longtime Republican political operative, writes in the LA Times today about Donald Trump: “We aren’t being willfully blind. We’re not liars or hypocrites. We haven’t abandoned our ethical standards. We do, however, have concerns about what’s driving this impeachment and whether the proposed punishment fits the alleged infraction.”…
Clinton Blasts Sanders, Refuses to Say Whether She’d Endorse Him Over Trump
Aaron Chown/ZUMA Hillary Clinton, nearly four years after a bitter race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, blasted her former primary opponent Bernie Sanders, claiming in a new interview that “nobody likes” him and that Sanders has achieved nothing during his time as a senator from Vermont. “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him,…
Raw Data: Prime Age Women vs. Prime Age Men
Whenever I hear the phrase “prime age workers” I have a hard time not thinking of cattle stockyards. But that’s just me. All it really refers to is workers aged 25-54, those who are in the “prime” of their working years. It’s a useful construct because it eliminates things like kids who are in college…
They Were Promised Broadband and High-Tech Jobs. They’re Still Waiting.
Imago/ZUMA This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. A year ago, Mary Lou Muncy landed her dream job advising home health care agencies on…
Jessica Cisneros Could Be the Next AOC. (But Don’t Tell Her That.)
Jessica CisnerosJosh Huskin Jessica Cisneros needed to find a dentist. When she decided to challenge Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar in the upcoming Democratic primary, Cisneros quit her job and moved back in with her parents in Laredo to save money. She’d bought her own insurance plan after turning 26 last May, but it didn’t include…