Here’s How You Can Help Migrant Kids and Families Right Now
Protestors in Philadelphia, PA. Michael Candelori/Pacific Press/ZUMA Wire It’s one of the biggest fundraisers in Facebook history. In 11 days, more than 525,000 Americans have given over $20 million to help asylum-seekers and migrants at the border. And after President Donald Trump criticized the comedian as “whimpering,” Jimmy Fallon told his 51.2 million Twitter followers he was making a…
Republicans Use Church Tax to Fund Millionaire Tax Cut
Nice church you have there. Does the archbishop have his own parking space? He does? The IRS will be in touch.Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Now here’s a sentence I’ll bet no one ever expected to read: Republicans have quietly imposed a new tax on churches, synagogues…
Ben Jealous Is Trying to Succeed Where Bernie Sanders Couldn’t
Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When I first spoke last summer with Ben Jealous, the former NAACP president who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor of Maryland, he laid out his path to victory in clear, statistical terms. “My path is basically the two…
These 4 GOP Senators Are Shocked that the National Science Foundation Encourages Science Education
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four Republican senators described the National Science Foundation as a political rather than scientific organization because of its study of climate change and have called for an investigation into the group by the agency’s inspector general’s office. In a scathing letter to the…
New York’s Democratic Primary Is a Big Test for the Party’s Progressive Wing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The election of President Donald Trump sparked a grassroots resurgence in the Democratic Party, an organized resistance in red and blue America that has put Republican elected officials on notice. But in New York, the story has been a bit more complicated. Sure, Democrats are…
At a School Safety Conference, Sessions Spent a Lot of Time Defending Trump’s Immigration Policies
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on immigration and law enforcement actions to cadets from Lackwanna College Police Academy.Michael Candelori/Pacific Press/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, US attorney general Jeff Sessions doubled down on the Trump Administration’s immigration policies during a speech to 1,000 school cops at…