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On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders revealed a sweeping, 6,000-word reform plan aiming at totally overhauling the criminal justice system. The plan featured many progressive touchstones, from abolishing the death penalty to ending cash bail to legalizing marijuana and expunging sentences for drug possession. However, there was one criminal-justice …

Julián Castro will participate in the Democratic primary’s climate town hall next month after meeting host CNN‘s polling threshold, the campaign’s national press secretary confirmed to Rolling Stone Tuesday. CNN had previously stated that it would limit invitations to those candidates who had received at least 2 percent in at …

Clarification: This post has been updated to make clear Ryan is temporarily stepping away from campaigning but plans to return to it soon. Fed up Ohio Congressman and presidential candidate Tim Ryan blasted Republicans for doing nothing about gun control, telling MSNBC on Sunday, “Republicans need to, quite frankly, get …

Ross Perot, the Texas-born self-made billionaire who twice ran for president as a third party candidate, had died at 89 after a bout with leukemia. The former candidate died at his Dallas home on Tuesday surrounded by family members, according to a statement released by his family. “In business and …

On Sunday, Senator Chris Coons was a guest on CBS News’ Face the Nation. Host Margaret Brennan asked the senator to speak to the duration of time that families and children are being held at migrant detention centers at the U.S. border. Coons directly said the administration’s strategy is purposely …

For the 2020 election, Democrats are proposing policies of sweep and ambition not seen since the New Deal or the Great Society. Ideas that would have seemed radical even five years ago — publicly funded college, a Green New Deal, Medicare for All — are now at the top of …

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not like the line of questioning from Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace about President Donald Trump’s recent remarks regarding accepting information from a foreign government about a political foe. Pompeo seemed annoyed and dismissive as soon as Wallace broached the viral topic, asking …

Likely to the annoyance of many on the left, Bill Maher volunteered to coach-up the 2020 Democratic presidential field during his New Rules segment on HBO’s Real Timeon Friday night. Maher has argued for some time now that Democrats in general are much too apt to argue amongst themselves and …

On Friday, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace made news by merely stating the obvious while giving his take on an interview with Attorney General Bill Barr that aired on the same network. The part that stood out to most was when Wallace said, “What really comes across to me most …

On Tuesday, after weeks of suspense-less delay, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a six week abortion ban into law as he’d long promised. The bill, slated to go into effect in January 2020, includes an incendiary provision declaring “unborn children are a class of living, distinct person.” The impact of …