So, this happened.
The socialists now running the House Democratic caucus won't be the first ones to put political adversaries "on a list". https://t.co/1gC8tJHTe8 pic.twitter.com/zsrP9Gy0iH
— NRCC (@NRCC) March 1, 2019
This is not the first time, and it won’t be the last, that the Republican Party tried to associate its opponents with socialism — the belief that the government should take control of the mean...
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FDA head Gottlieb leaves behind legacy of tackling big tobacco and underage vaping
Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who spoke out against a number of public health issues like youth vaping and vaccine misinformation, resigned Tuesday after nearly two years on the job. He is reportedly resigning to spend more time with his family.
“Scott Gottlieb, who has done an absolutely terrific job as Commissioner of the FDA, plans to leave government service...
Bernie Sanders leans in on race as he launches his White House bid
Addressing cheering crowds on a frigid winter’s day, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delivered a campaign message familiar to his supporters, pledging to lead the charge for a $15 minimum wage and to fight for access to health care, among other causes he has championed over the years.
What was different at his official campaign launch on Saturday was the backdrop: a sea of black and brown faces made up a good number of the thousands of supporters who had turned out in the bitter co...
The Red Scare is in full swing at CPAC
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — From the very start of CPAC 2019, the dreaded “s” word was on everyone’s lips.
Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka declared that “socialism is here in America,” noting a recent study which found that 40 percent of Americans described themselves as socialist, to loud boos from the crowd. Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council, asked attendees to “put socialism on trial,” and said...
The Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest threat to separation of church and state in decades
The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Wednesday that never should have been filed in the first place.
The outcomes in American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, two consolidated cases considering the fate of a cross-shaped monument in Maryland, are as preordained as anything in the Supreme Court can be. Every single member of the Court’s conservative majority...
The Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest threat to separation of church and state in decades
The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Wednesday that never should have been filed in the first place.
The outcomes in American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, two consolidated cases considering the fate of a cross-shaped monument in Maryland, are as preordained as anything in the Supreme Court can be. Every single member of the Court’s conservative majority...
Bernie Sanders’ 2016 run changed politics. His aides say it also changed Bernie Sanders.
On April 30, 2015, the day Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced his first ever presidential run, more than three-quarters of the electorate had no idea who he was.
Sanders, of course, went on to give former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a run for her money in the 2016 Democratic party primaries. His rallies attracted both enormous crowds and a healthy supply of young voters, for whom he articulated — in a thick Brooklyn accent — a vision of a government that he said...
One Democrat in the race seems serious about governing, and it’s not Bernie Sanders
Whatever you think of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the frumpy Vermont senator deserves credit for expanding the substantive ambition of the Democratic presidential field. Sanders’ unexpectedly strong 2016 primary campaign proved that there is a hunger for big ideas like Medicare for All within the Democratic electorate, and it’s now likely that whoever the 2020 Democratic nominee is, they will support some form of universal single-payer health care.
Yet, for all of Sander...
Speeches, speculation and snowstorms: Here’s the weekly roundup on the 2020 field
Fractures have emerged among Democrats on Medicare-for-all and the "Green New Deal."