President Trump’s lawsuit-heavy coup to overturn the election results hit a little snag over the weekend. Sidney Powell, the very serious attorney who refers to herself as “The Kraken” while promising “biblical” revelations of nonexistent election fraud, went so far off the deep end that even Donald Trump had to …
Read More »Loving People Who Love Donald Trump
When news finally arrived last Saturday morning that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had been elected the 46th president of the United States, here is a non-exhaustive list of the things I wanted to do, in no particular order: Run out to the street with fists pumping, dance a jig, bang …
Read More »Joe Biden Punts on Packing the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — After weeks of ducking the question, Democratic president nominee Joe Biden finally offered a response to the question of whether he would seek to expand or reform the U.S. Supreme Court. Well, kind of. Biden told CBS’ 60 Minutesthat, if elected, he would appoint a “bipartisan commission of …
Read More »This November, Vote Like Your Abortion Access Depends On It
This is the story of two worlds in the U.S. — where the power to decide what happens to your body, your life, and your future depends on the state you live in, who you are, and how much money you earn. We are cisgender heterosexual women of color, representing …
Read More »Four Big Questions for Super Tuesday
As Joe Biden stumbled through months of debates and disappointed in the first three contests of the Democratic primary, his surrogates developed a kind of mantra: Wait until South Carolina— you’ll see. Variations on the theme were repeated so often thatthey felt destined to be proven utterly worthless,like so much …
Read More »Kamala Harris Has Dropped Out of the Presidential Race
Sen. Kamala Harris is dropping out of the presidential race, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday. The California Democrat, who was once among leading contenders for the party’s presidential nomination, broke the news to her staff on a conference call and in an email to her supporters, and she is expected …
Read More »Bernie Sanders on Democratic Socialism, Elizabeth Warren and the Media
If it seems like Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is fighting for his political life amid a series of negative articles, it might be because he always is. The Sanders campaign is grounded in a principle that an absence of controversy would be the real indication of trouble. It’s not a …
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