Quote of the Day: Next Time, Health Care Reform Will Be a Real War
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From Harold Pollack, mild-mannered professor at the University of Chicago, on the strategy for health care reform when Democrats return to power: Democrats will be much more ruthless the next time around. Pollack explains this further in more academic tones, but I’m not sure he…
Trump Clearly Doesn’t Understand Anything About the Paris Climate Accord
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Does Donald Trump have any idea what the Paris climate accord really does? Based on the president’s speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it seems unlikely. In his longest remarks on the subject since announcing last June that he would…
Kids Have Alway Led the Way for Progress. The Push for Gun Control Is No Different.
Stop Mass Incarcerations Network sponsored a children’s march demanding accountability on the one year anniversary of Tamir Rice’s death at the hands of the Cleveland police. Andy Katz/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last week, it quickly became clear…
Rick Gates Has Agreed to Cooperate With Mueller’s Team. Here’s What He Might Know.
Rick Gates departs Federal District Court, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rick Gates, the longtime business partner of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, has decided to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors, ending weeks of speculation about his fate and highlighting…
This Democrat Doesn’t Want to Ban Assault Weapons. Republicans Are Attacking Him Anyway.
Keith Srakocic/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Next month’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, between Republican state Sen. Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb, will be the first congressional election after last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. While many Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have been put on…
The NRA’s Plan to “Harden” Schools is Terrifying
tiwaongin/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During Wednesday night’s CNN town hall on school shootings, Lori Alhadeff, the parent of a 14-year-old victim of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting confronted the NRA’s national spokeswoman Dana Loesch on why her organization hadn’t done more to make schools safer. Alhadeff pointed…