How Democrats Could Beat Back Voter Suppression at the Ballot Box
Voters wait in line for ballots at the Polk County Election office on the first day of early voting for the Iowa general election on October 8 in Des Moines. Charlie Neibergall/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Deidre DeJear announced her candidacy for Iowa secretary of state last August, on the…
John Adams’ Fears About America’s Future Feel Pretty Darn Prescient Today
National Gallery of Art Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During America’s first Gilded Age, in 1898, Sen. Mark Hanna was sufficiently candid when asked about his political principles. There are two political truths, the Ohio Republican observed: “The first is money. I can’t remember what the second is.” Now, during…
A Record Number of Families Are Crossing the Southern Border Illegally
Families from Guatemala are detained by Border Patrol agents after crossing the US-Mexico border without authorization along the Rio Grande in Texas in June. Jahi Chikwendiu/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The number of migrant families entering the United States illegally has reached a record high, according to Department of…
Democrats in Congress Are Going After the GOP for Trying to Cut Entitlements
Protestors oppose Republican cuts to Medicaid.Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With the midterm elections weeks away and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reviving talk that social spending programs need to be cut in order to reduce the deficit, Democrats in Congress are trying to…
Ryan Zinke Fires Annoying Inspector General
Ryan Zinke, moral standard for our nation’s youth.Lou Maheda/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the latest from the most corrupt administration since … um, forever: At last count, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was the subject of 14 separate government investigations. (A new record!) But that number…
Getting the Kids to Vote
Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something I don’t get. Maybe it’s because I’m dumb. Or maybe it’s because I live in California and I don’t see the same TV ads as everyone else. But here it is. We liberals spend a lot of time…