It Could Take Weeks to Find Out If Democrats Won the House
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember this? Alan Diaz / APIf you’ve been nervously counting down the days until the November 6 election, we’ve got some bad news for you: You might have to wait quite a bit longer before you know who will control the House. That’s because roughly…
Republicans Have Cut Taxes on the Rich, Increased Them on the Middle Class
Image Source/Cultura/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So how are those tariffs going, President Trump? When President Trump placed tariffs on imported aluminum last spring in an effort to protect American producers, European rivals thought their U.S. profits would come under pressure. But months later European aluminum companies have yet…
In the Wake of the Pittsburgh Massacre, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Gaslights America
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was not surprising. Giving the first White House news briefing in weeks, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued predictable words: “The American people reject hatred, bigotry, prejudice, and violence.” But President Donald Trump has not rejected any of that. The case is…
This Climate Skeptic Could Lose His House Race After His District Was Flooded by a Hurricane
Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) could be unseated after nine terms in office.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Donald Trump swung through Houston last week to stump for embattled Republicans, Rep. John Culberson, who is in one of the most competitive races in the state, was…
Help Us In the Fight Against Hate
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This has been a bad week for hate. On Wednesday, a white man entered a grocery store in Kentucky, shot two black customers, and then tried to force his way into a black church to kill more people. (He didn’t succeed.) The FBI spent the…
These Musical Sisters Excel in New Albums
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Swearin’Fall Into the SunMerge WaxahatcheeGreat ThunderMerge Whether collaborating in the now-departed P.S. Eliot or working separately, sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield excel at urgent rock and roll combining garage-band scruffiness and confessional intimacy. On Fall Into the Sun, the third album by the rebooted Swearin’,…