On Friday morning, Andrew Yang dropped his first U.S. Senate endorsement of 2020. For those who’d been wondering how Yang might wield the political capital accrued during his giddy run for president — beyond championing Universal Basic Income and toying with a run for mayor of New York City — …
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A few weeks before President Trump was impeached last December for attempting to blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan warned the House Judiciary Committee of a future in which the president used similar tactics on his own country: “Imagine living in a part of Louisiana …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Matt Stoller, author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly, Power and Democracy, a book that Matt describes as having “venom for all the right people.” He is also the Research Director at the …
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For the past two months, as the novel coronavirus silently crept through her city, Lori Lightfoot, the Democratic mayor of Chicago, tried in vain to get the attention of the Trump White House. She wrote letters to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the White House Coronavirus …
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Lest you think coronavirus stupidity is solely a Republican problem, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made the same uninformed and incorrect statements that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp made this week. de Blasio also tried to claim that until very recently, scientists were not aware that asymptomatic or presymptomatic …
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There was, essentially, no Green New Deal before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It was just a slogan rolling around the mouths of newspaper columnists and environmental activists until the 30-year-old political phenom put her star power behind it. Just a month after she was sworn in as the youngest congresswoman in history, …
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Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her presidential bid on Monday. Klobuchar, who positioned herself as a Midwestern moderate, will endorse former Vice President Joe Biden at a rally in Dallas on Monday evening, according to her campaign. The senator finished third in New Hampshire but she couldn’t establish more …
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A little more than a week and a half ago, Mike Bloomberg’s Brooklyn campaign office was just an empty storefront —the kind of white-walled box one can rent on an app for $400 an hour, if they have an art show or a pop-up influencer event to throw —with inoffensive …
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Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) encouraged a crowd to continue booing Hillary Clinton at a Bernie Sanders rally in Iowa on Friday. While the event’s moderator began mentioning one of Clinton’s recent attacks against Sanders, the crowd started to boo. The moderator then tried to quell the audience’s reaction, saying …
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren submitted a question during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial about the legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court and the Constitution, leaving the chief justice no choice but to read it aloud. On Thursday while presiding over impeachment, Chief Justice John Roberts read the Democratic presidential …
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