President said ‘I don’t know about it’ when asked about the advert that included false claims and was criticized for stoking fear of immigrants
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Trump is in Indiana. Why Indiana? He hopes to tip the senate race away from Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly and toward challenger Mike Braun, a former R...
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The economy still matters for US elections, but not in the way many people think
The US economy is doing well. GDP growth is robust and the job market is strong. Yet Donald Trump’s approval rating is low, and his party is expected to lose a lot of seats in midterm elections on Tuesday. So does that mean the economy...
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Cohen told Vanity Fair that Trump ‘repeatedly used racist language before his presidency’. Meanwhile, Obama speaks in Florida before midterms
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Pramila Jayapal, a Washington state congresswoman, is one of hundreds of Democrats now running on single-payer healthcare, a monumental shift to the left for the party which – even when it controlled Congress and the White House in 200...
Trump brings his long war against legal immigration to the midterm elections
President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to strip many Americans of their legal citizenship by executive fiat, specifically targeting children born in the United States to undocumented immigrant parents. Such a move would immediately run afoul of the United States Constitution, as well as a federal judiciary whose fringiest right-wing judges have never cottoned on to such a radical revision of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Nevertheless, tearing down the infrastr...
There are not two sides to birthright citizenship. Reporters who say so are committing malpractice.
Reporters, please, for the love of God, don’t do this.
Breaking News: President Trump said he was preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship. It is unclear whether he can do so unilaterally.https://t.co/uAshSXiP10
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2018
It is not “unclear” whether Trump can act unilaterally. The Constitution’s text unambiguously says that Trump cannot do this — an...
Everything you need to know about why Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional
Donald Trump, in an interview with Axios, said that he plans to sign an executive order stripping many Americans of their citizenship. Though it is unclear how far Trump wants to go, or whether he would attempt to retroactively strip many existing citizens of their citizenship, Trump apparently wants to target the children of undocumented immigrants.
“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United...
This is how much more expensive health care premiums will be in 2019 thanks to Trump
Health care premiums will be up to 16 percent higher in 2019 than they would have been had the Trump administration not worked so hard to chip away at the Affordable Care Act.
A new study released Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the Trump administration’s decision to repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate and expand skimpy short-term health plans have made premiums across the board — whether on the Obamacare marketplace or not — an average of 6 percent h...
The US government is finally stepping in to help the babies of the opioid epidemic
The opioid crisis in the US has ballooned into a full-blown public health emergency. Every day, 115 Americans after overdosing on opioids.
The administration of US president Donald Trump has been slow to respond to the magnitud...
The US government is finally stepping in to help the babies of the opioid epidemic
The opioid crisis in the US has ballooned into a full-blown public health emergency. Every day, 115 Americans after overdosing on opioids.
The administration of US president Donald Trump has been slow to respond to the magnitud...