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Ayanna Pressley

2020 elections July 20, 2020

Eliot Engel Regarded Himself As a Congressman-for-LifeEngel’s resentment of colleagues who endorsed his primary challenger for his ultrasafe seat betrays a sense of aristocratic entitlement.

By Ed Kilgore
john lewis July 3, 2020

John Lewis’s Lifelong Struggle for Voting Rights Isn’t OverOnce it looked like Obama’s election represented the culmination of John Lewis’s career. A new documentary shows battles for old causes persist.

By Ed Kilgore
supreme court Sept. 17, 2019

Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley Pushes Kavanaugh Impeachment ResolutionLeaders in the Democratic Party aren’t interested.

By Adam K. Raymond
inexperience July 23, 2019

President Trump Disdains Inexperience When It’s Not His or His Administration’sTrump’s latest tweets deride AOC and Ilhan Omar for their ‘inexperience.’ He also wanted Ivanka, who is ‘good with numbers,’ to run the World Bank.

By Zak Cheney-Rice
ilhan omar July 15, 2019

Ilhan Omar: Trump Has ‘Agenda of White Nationalists’At a press conference responding to Trump’s attack on four congresswomen of color, Omar repeated the call for Democrats to impeach the president.

By Matt Stieb
racism July 14, 2019

Trump Attacks Democratic Congresswomen With White Nationalist RhetoricWith his reelection campaign now underway, the president is trying out an even bigger dog whistle.

By Chas Danner
politics Feb. 27, 2019

No One Was As Tough on Michael Cohen As the Freshmen CongresswomenThe freshmen Democrats put Cohen through the wringer.

By Lisa Ryan
2018 elections Sept. 5, 2018

Ayanna Pressley Beats 20-Year Incumbent Mike Capuano in Democratic Primary UpsetShe’s the second woman to unseat a House Dem in 2018, after Ocasio-Cortez, and she’ll be the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in Congress.

By Margaret Hartmann