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life after warming
6:00 a.m.
You, Too, Are in Denial of Climate Change Most Americans believe, abstractly, in climate change. That’s not enough.
Democrats Won Big With a Key Demographic of Trump’s Base During Midterms If you’re looking for a key 2020 demographic, white working class women who aren’t evangelicals could be crucial in battleground states.
Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Sound Too Excited About Enfranchising Voters Florida’s governor-elect appears to be preparing to drag his feet on the felon re-enfranchisement amendment which voters approved
transportation
12/13/2018
Off-Schedule and Over-Budget, California’s Bullet Train Is in Big Trouble New Governor Gavin Newsom is promising a “fresh start” on Jerry Brown’s pet project.
the national interest
12/13/2018
criminal justice
12/13/2018
Tom Cotton’s America Is Not a Free America The First Step Act’s most vocal opponent in the Senate has a bleak and all-too-familiar vision for what American criminal justice should look like.
reading the signs
12/13/2018
Melania Trump’s Blonde Bombshell The First Lady has an uncanny ability to reject the expectations of her role.
government shutdown
12/13/2018
Oops, Trump Now Needs the Votes of Those GOP House ‘Losers’ He Mocked Are the lame-duck Republicans Trump scorned going to race back to Washington to help him save face in the shutdown battle? Probably not.
foreign policy
12/13/2018
Democrat On Why He Voted for Yemen War: ‘I Don’t Know a Damn Thing About It’ Collin Peterson believes that America should have a global empire — but American congressmen shouldn’t have to keep up with international news.
2020 elections
12/13/2018
Does Donald Trump Have a Reelection Strategy? Trump seems incapable of “pivoting to the center” or becoming more popular. So either he’ll wing it, or focus on demonizing his opponent.
house democrats
12/12/2018
The Supreme Court Dealt a Blow to Unions, But It Wasn’t a Knockout Despite the dire outlook after June’s Janus v. AFSCME decision, union membership isn’t dropping as expected.
What Is a Tinkling Contest and Why Must It End With One Covered in Skunk Tinkle? A linguist explains what Nancy Pelosi meant when she warned against getting in a “tinkle contest with a skunk.”
2020 presidential election
12/12/2018
Warning to Beto-Maniacs: Early Presidential Buzz Can Be an Omen or an Illusion Beto O’Rourke is looking very good as a 2020 presidential prospect. But others have looked just as good and have quickly flamed out or failed to run.
Michael Cohen Headed to Prison for 3 Years, After Doing Crimes at Trump’s Behest “The irony is that today I get my freedom back,” Cohen said. “Blind loyalty to [Trump] led me to choose a path of darkness over light.”
reproductive rights
12/12/2018
There’s a New Push to Change New York’s Outdated Abortion Law With a Democratic trifecta set to take power, abortion rights advocates are launching a campaign to finally pass the Reproductive Health Act.
Christine Blasey Ford Makes Her First Appearance in Months In a video honoring the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar.
the national interest
12/12/2018
When You Can’t Go Forward and You Can’t Go Back The Cut went to Tijuana and spoke to five women fleeing poverty, domestic abuse, and gang violence in Central America.
separate and unequal
12/12/2018
America Is Sacrificing Black Education for a False Meritocracy A plan to integrate New York City’s elite public high schools has sparked outrage, exposing racial fault lines old and new.
russia investigation
12/12/2018
Michael Flynn to Judge: Don’t Lock Me Up Flynn’s lawyers say he deserves leniency, in part because he wasn’t warned that lying to the FBI is a crime.
Surprise: Black Voters Still Don’t Like Donald Trump Trump’s claim he would get 95 percent of the black vote in 2020 is looking like absolutely the polar opposite of reality.
Stormy Daniels Now Has to Pay Trump Almost $300,000 in Legal Fees A week and a half after she said she didn’t want her lawyer to file the suit in the first place.
2020 elections
12/11/2018
A Biden-Romney Fantasy Ticket So Ain’t Happening A Washington outsider revives the hoary fantasy of a centrist third party, but it has never made any sense.
Which Circle of Hell Do You Think This Is? Trump spent 17 minutes screaming while a catatonic Mike Pence looked on.
native americans
12/11/2018
The Washington Redskins’ Interest in Colin Kaepernick Went Nowhere. Good. Racism is the Redskins organization’s calling card. Kaepernick’s racial-justice protest is incompatible with its values.
With New SNAP Work Requirements Removed, We May Finally Get a Farm Bill The previous farm bill expired in October and lawmakers were at an impasse over a House Republican push to restrict access to food stamps.
charlottesville
12/11/2018
Man Who Killed Young Woman in Charlottesville Sentenced A jury sentenced James Alex Fields Jr., 21, to life plus 419 years, and $480,000 in fines for killing heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally.
government shutdown
12/11/2018
Trump Vows to Shut Down Government If He Doesn’t Get His Wall The president lost his temper and finally took total responsibility for a bad thing that may soon happen.
Pelosi May Accept 4-Year Term Limit on Speakership It’s mainly a face-saving measure for anti-Pelosi rebels who, at most, can keep her from serving as House Democratic leader well into her 80s.
Trump to Congress: Fund the Wall — Or Not, Either Way Works for Me The great negotiator says Congress must fund his border wall — unless they don’t want to, in which case the military can just build it anyway.
the national interest
12/11/2018
‘I Don’t Care’: GOP Senators Dismiss Allegations Against Trump “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president,” said Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.
very british chaos
12/10/2018
Oh No, He’s Gone and Grabbed the Ceremonial Mace A British Member of Parliament caused absolute chaos in the chamber when he broke the rules in an act of protest.
2020 elections
12/10/2018
Trump Better Get Used to a Democratic House The odds of Republicans regaining the House in 2020 even if Trump is reelected aren’t great.
higher education
12/10/2018
A New Study Illustrates One Easy Way to Increase Diversity on College Campuses New research reinforces the systemic nature of the barriers low-income students encounter when they consider higher education.
Trump Could Use Chief of Staff Appointment to Declare Total War on His Enemies A top staffer like Mark Meadows would be confirmation that Trump’s strategy to defend against political and legal threats is maximum polarization.
Why ‘Election Night’ Is an Outdated and Dangerous Relic of the Past More and more, the traditional media-driven drama of single-day voting and vote counting is out of line with reality. And that’s bad for democracy.
the national interest
12/10/2018
Everybody Says Mueller Is Almost Done. What If He Isn’t? What we know from Mueller is still a small fraction of the publicly available facts about Trump’s long relationship with Russia.
The Nation’s First Charter-School Strike Is Over – For Now Acero Schools’ management gave in on some of the educators’ key demands, agreeing to raise pay, reduce class sizes, and set a sanctuary school policy.
the national interest
12/9/2018
Sherrod Brown Has a Blueprint for America 2020 Is looking this rumpled a path to the presidency?
How Screwed Is Trump? Collected Commentary on the Cohen and Manafort Memos The president thinks he’s been cleared, but pundits and experts who actually understand the Cohen and Manafort sentencing memos beg to differ.
last night on late night
12/9/2018
house democrats
12/9/2018
Messaging or Investigating? How Should House Democrats Use Their Limited Power? Take a lesson from the GOP, Democrats, and focus on regaining power more than arguing over how it will be used.
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