California Kindergarteners Need to Pick Up the Pace
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This caught my eye in the LA Times this morning: When students enter school in California, they learn at a pace on par with — if not better than — those in other states. The problem is that they arrive far behind their national peers,…
Rich People Can No Longer Hide Their Political Contributions
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sad news for rich people today: Advocacy groups pouring money into independent campaigns to impact this fall’s midterm races must disclose many of their political donors beginning this week after the Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in a long-running case. The high court…
Endangered Republican Falsely Claims He Hasn’t Taken NRA Money Recently
The March for Our Lives rally in San Francisco, March 24, 2018Josh Edelson/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An endangered Republican congressman from Southern California wasn’t telling the truth last month when he claimed that he hadn’t received any recent donations from the National Rifle Association, federal campaign finance records…
Trump Says He “Feels So Terribly” for Kavanaugh
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeatedly expressed sympathy for Brett Kavanaugh, his nominee to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, whose nomination is in turmoil after a woman came forward with allegations of sexual assault against him this week. Still, he restated his…
How Randy Bryce’s Arrest at an Immigration Protest Got Twisted in a New Republican Ad
Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Leadership Fund, a super-PAC tied to retiring Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, has been spending big this summer in support of Republicans fighting to hold the House of Representatives. Much of what CLF does is the dirty work—the sometimes over-the-top attacks…
In Kansas Governor’s Race, Key Republicans Are Backing the Democrat Over Kris Kobach
Kris Kobach (right) debates independent Greg Orman and Democratic Sen. Laura Kelly at the Kansas State Fair earlier this month.Jesse Brothers/The Hutchinson News via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former Republican Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum, who served from 1978 to 1997, endorsed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Laura Kelly over Republican…