This Is Basically the Soundtrack to that Beto Sex Tweet
Brian Lowe Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Movement,” by Hozier (Rubyworks, 2018.) Why we’re into it: This follow-up to 2013’s “Take Me to Church” suggests Hozier is more than a one-hit wonder. 2013 had its fair share of hits, including “Thrift Shop,” “Roar,” and that Pitch Perfect song—with its countless covers and tutorials. But one…
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Has an Ambitious Plan to Govern From the Left
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a press conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday afternoon, just a block from the White House, a dozen of the country’s most liberal lawmakers gathered in the lobby of the…
Here’s How Different Groups Really Voted in 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Did Hispanics turn out in greater numbers this year than they did in 2014? I didn’t even bother looking at the exit polls for this, since virtually no one seems to trust them anymore. However, before the election Yair Ghitza at Catalist promised a super-sophisticated…
Katie Porter Wins the CA45; Mimi Walters Throws a Tantrum
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t know how this slipped my mind yesterday, but Katie Porter has beaten Mimi Walters to win my home district in Irvine: Porter is now 6,000 votes ahead and rising. CA45 has been officially called. The sad part of this is that a couple…
Trump Tried to Bypass the Justice Department and Extradite Turkish Cleric
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.Turkish Presidency/Depo Photos via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Does the name Fethullah Gulen ring a bell? Maybe not. Gulen is a 77-year-old Turkish cleric who has been a resident of the United States for the past 20 years—and who has been a mortal enemy…
Katie Porter Wins in California
Chris Carlson/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, nine days after polls closed in California, the Associated Press made it official: Democrat Katie Porter unseated Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in the 45th district. Walters, who led Porter in the vote-count until Wednesday, made false allegations about election fraud…