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Michael Bloomberg
sexual harassment
Feb. 21, 2020
Bloomberg Releases Women Who Complained About His Comments From Their NDAs The billionaire presidential candidate also said that his company would stop using confidentiality agreements for sexual harassment claims.
By Chas Danner
vision 2020
Feb. 21, 2020
By Eric Levitz
Can Twitter Fix ‘Misinformation’ Like Mayor Bloomberg’s Manipulated Video? On March 5, Twitter is rolling out new policies around misinformation. Will they work?
By Max Read
vision 2020
Feb. 21, 2020
No, Democrats Didn’t ‘Go After the Wrong Guy’ in Las Vegas Bloomberg’s wallet was as big a threat to other candidates as it was to Bernie, who is the career non-Democrat who best fits today’s Democratic Party.
By Ed Kilgore
so you want to be president
Feb. 21, 2020
By Bridget Read
michael bloomberg
Feb. 21, 2020
Op-Ed Asks: ‘Is Bloomberg Racist?’ Voters Should Answer: ‘Who Cares?’ To argue that Bloomberg’s policies as mayor were racist because he’s dense rather than evil is not consoling.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
vision 2020
Feb. 20, 2020
By Eric Levitz
michael bloomberg
Feb. 20, 2020
By Jack Denton
vision 2020
Feb. 20, 2020
Debate Infighting Won’t Kill Democrats’ Chances in November Until Democrats argue about their genitals, there’s a long way down to the behavior Republicans modeled before winning everything in 2016.
By Ed Kilgore
rap battles
Feb. 20, 2020
By Zoe Haylock
democratic debates
Feb. 20, 2020
Who Won (and Lost) the Democratic Debate in Nevada Elizabeth Warren raged against the dying of her campaign’s light, while Michael Bloomberg withered under scrutiny.
By Eric Levitz
democratic debates
Feb. 19, 2020
Bloomberg Walks Onto the Stage and Into a Buzzsaw The former mayor should have stayed far away from the Las Vegas debate.
By Ed Kilgore
michael bloomberg
Feb. 19, 2020
Bloomberg Defends Stop and Frisk With Lies at Democratic Debate Later, Elizabeth Warren pummeled him over his history of using nondisclosure agreements.
By Benjamin Hart
democratic debates
Feb. 19, 2020
Elizabeth Warren Goes in on Michael Bloomberg “Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.”
By Claire Lampen
nevada debate
Feb. 19, 2020
Elizabeth Warren Goes to War on Bloomberg in Nevada Debate Warren started off the debate with a brutal attack on Bloomberg, in which she highlighted his sexist comments.
By Chas Danner
so you want to be president
Feb. 19, 2020
The Worst Things Michael Bloomberg Has Said About Women “I’d like to do that piece of meat,” he allegedly remarked of female employees.
By Claire Lampen
vision 2020
Feb. 19, 2020
Bernie Sanders Opens Up Double-Digit National Lead But Michael Bloomberg is surging in Super Tuesday states.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Feb. 19, 2020
The 2020 Gerontocracy Intensifies With Bloomberg’s Rise The presidential contest for the Party of Youth and Diversity could soon turn into a vicious ideological fight between two 78-year-old white men.
By Ed Kilgore
democratic primaries
Feb. 19, 2020
Sanders Spokesperson Compares Questions Over Medical Records to Birtherism Despite an earlier pledge, Sanders is not releasing his “comprehensive” medical records.
By Adam K. Raymond
vision 2020
Feb. 18, 2020
There Is a Case for Bloomberg. It’s Just Bleak As Hell. Democrats are mulling a big gamble on the power of extraordinary wealth to bend our democracy to its will.
By Eric Levitz
democratic debate
Feb. 18, 2020
Mike Bloomberg Will Be on the Debate Stage This Week The billionaire businessman will finally have to face tough questions from moderators and attacks from his Democratic rivals.
By Adam K. Raymond
democratic primaries
Feb. 17, 2020
As Bloomberg Rises, Democratic Candidates Go On the Attack The ascendant billionaire is drawing fire over his remarks and his spending from nearly everyone else in the field.
By Adam K. Raymond
vision 2020
Feb. 17, 2020
What Obama Is Saying in Private About the Democratic Primary Sure, he’s got thoughts about Sanders and Bloomberg — and others in the field. But keeping mum is part of a much bigger plan.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
vision 2020
Feb. 14, 2020
De Blasio To Endorse, Campaign With, Sanders It’s unclear whether this was the mayor’s idea, or Bernie’s, but he’ll be back on the campaign trail in Nevada.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 14, 2020
Why Biden’s Candidacy May Survive He’s been left for dead by many observers, but Nevada and especially South Carolina could revive him in time for Super Tuesday.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 13, 2020
The Price of a Bloomberg Nomination Is Too Damn High Democrats must recognize that their party’s soul is worth more than Michael Bloomberg can afford.
By Eric Levitz
we live in hell
Feb. 13, 2020
FuckJerry and Other Meme Accounts Are on Bloomberg’s Payroll Now This is so shameless that even the Fat Jewish is calling it out.
By Megh Wright
michael bloomberg
Feb. 13, 2020
Bloomberg Defended Fingerprinting Food-Stamp Applicants As Recently As 2018 In the same 2018 talk, Bloomberg framed the minimum wage as an impediment to job creation.
By Sarah Jones
vision 2020
Feb. 13, 2020
Which Democratic Presidential Candidates Will Survive Until Super Tuesday? It could be lots of candidates, or just two or three, depending on what happens in Nevada and South Carolina.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 12, 2020
Will Bloomberg Break the Mold and Run a Competent Presidential Campaign? New York mayors, including the current one, who ran for president haven’t done very well. Maybe Bloomberg can do better.
By Ed Kilgore
michael bloomberg
Feb. 12, 2020
Why ‘Stop and Frisk’ Hasn’t Arrested Bloomberg’s Rise The former New York mayor’s ascension up the 2020 ranks, especially among black voters, seems incongruous. It’s not.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
vision 2020
Feb. 12, 2020
Lucy McBath’s Endorsement Reflects Mike Bloomberg’s Unique Appeal The former mayor faces big questions over his record on race, but a growing number of black lawmakers have gotten behind him.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 11, 2020
Who’s Left As a Democratic Unity Candidate? Maybe Nobody. As Sanders, Buttigieg, Klobuchar do well in New Hampshire, it’s looking like a Sanders-Bloomberg fight down the road with no compromises in sight.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Feb. 11, 2020
By Jonathan Chait
new hampshire primary
Feb. 11, 2020
Mike Bloomberg Ekes Out Win in Tiny Dixville Notch Amy Klobuchar and President Trump were the other big winners after midnight voting in New Hampshire.
By Adam K. Raymond
vision 2020
Feb. 11, 2020
Will Bernie-Panicked Centrists Stampede to Bloomberg? As Biden sinks and Buttigieg struggles to win minority voters, the ultrarich former New York mayor is looking stronger.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 10, 2020
By Brian Feldman
Two Career Non-Democrats Could Fight for the Democratic Presidential Nomination Sanders and Bloomberg have spent a lot of time avoiding identification with the party whose presidential nomination they seek — much like Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
Man Who Owns News Outlet Guilty of Plagiarism Michael Bloomberg copied entire sections of his policy platform from various news outlets — despite employing journalists on his campaign.
By Sarah Jones
the national interest
Feb. 6, 2020
If You Think It Looks Bad for Mainstream Democrats Now, Just Wait The center-left hasn’t unified around a candidate and appears helpless before Bernie Sanders.
By Jonathan Chait
Elizabeth Warren’s Tough Road Ahead She’s now clearly trailing Sanders as the progressive favorite, but still has some potential as a “unity candidate.”
By Ed Kilgore
the national circus
Feb. 4, 2020
Frank Rich: Iowa and the Rolling Democratic Calamity The Iowa debacle was a huge gift — and not the first — to Donald Trump and the Republicans.
By Frank Rich
the national interest
Feb. 2, 2020
By Jonathan Chait
vision 2020
Jan. 30, 2020
Poll: Jewish Voters Are Indifferent to Jewish Presidential Candidates According to a new survey, Sanders and Bloomberg are running fourth and fifth among Jewish Democratic voters.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Jan. 30, 2020
Watch Trump and Bloomberg’s Dueling Super Bowl Ads The president and Democrats’ biggest spender will compete for viewer eyeballs, at a hefty cost.
By Benjamin Hart
vision 2020
Jan. 29, 2020
If There’s an Anybody-But-Bernie Movement, Who Will Lead It? There are already alarms going up about Bernie Sanders sweeping the first three 2020 contests. But late-primary challenges don’t seem to work.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Jan. 28, 2020
Watch Michael Bloomberg Try to Shake Hands With a Dog’s Mouth A note to the former mayor: You shake a dog’s paw, not its upper jaw.
By Matt Stieb
vision 2020
Jan. 24, 2020
Could Bloomberg’s Billions Boost the Odds of a Contested Convention? If multiple candidates steam towards Super Tuesday, Bloomberg’s massive spending on that and later dates could make forming a majority tough.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Jan. 23, 2020
You Can’t Reform the Presidential Nominating Process With Wishes We don’t really have a unified system for nominating presidential candidates, so systematic reforms aren’t easy.
By Ed Kilgore
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