Last Night, Arizona Primary Voters Backed Two Competing Visions for the Democratic Party
Kyrsten Sinema and David Garcia, Arizona Democrats’ 2018 nominees for senator and governor.Ross D. Franklin/AP; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michelle Capriotti has been waiting for a political moment like this. One evening in early August, a few weeks before students returned to the nearby high…
Brett Kavanaugh Sure Does Love Giant Corporations
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Stephanie Mencimer reports that Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has a well-developed judicial philosophy: In both his rulings and public speeches, he has criticized a Supreme Court precedent that instructs judges to defer to federal agencies when interpreting environmental or consumer…
Too Young to Vote—But Too Riled Up to Stay Quiet
Students from the Arizona March for our Lives group at a rally in March. Courtesy of Jordan Harb High schoolers across the country are leading voter registration efforts—even though some are too young to head to the polls themselves. Some of these new organizers, like 17-year-old Jordan Harb of Arizona, were energized to call for tighter gun…
Study: Brett Kavanaugh Inevitably Rules for Whoever Is More Powerful
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, departs after meeting with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which will oversee his confirmation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brett Kavanaugh, President…
No One Knows How Big the Prison Strike Is, But Organizers Are Already Calling It a Success
LightFieldStudios/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For weeks, the outside organizers of the nationwide prison strike that kicked off last Tuesday had been spreading the word that inmates in at least 17 states had pledged to protest prison conditions over 19 days. The plan was for thousands of prisoners to…
Kids With Cognitive Problems Can Be Locked Up for Years Without a Trial
holwichaikawee/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By the time he turned 15, Jesus G. was hearing voices and having suicidal thoughts. It was early 2013, and he’d been living at the Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles for more than a year, though he’d never been tried or found guilty…