PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), along with a handful of her freshman Democratic colleagues, reaffirmed her commitment to her progressive values Saturday, after a week roiled by party infighting. “One thing I tell women of color is that we never needed to ask for permission or an invitation to lead,” Omar said in […]
Vice President Mike Pence visited a Border Patrol detention facility in Texas on Friday evening. The image of him in a blazer, blithely looking through a chain-link fence at hundreds of people, forced to stand in an overcrowded, confined space with no room to lie down, is destined to be one of the seminal representations […]
Thousands across the country are taking to the streets to protest ahead of the Trump administration’s planned immigration crackdown. President Donald Trump confirmed media reports on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids will get underway beginning Sunday. ICE is expected to target undocumented immigrants with court removal orders, but officials told the New […]
Saturday is “Nathan Bedford Forrest Day” in Tennessee, according to a proclamation signed Friday by Gov. Bill Lee (R). Forrest, for those who may not know their Civil War history, was a Confederate general who was elected to be the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest’s bust is on display at the […]
Cost-free birth control for thousands is safe for now, after a federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive mandate. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a district court decision issued in January that blocked regulations to allow virtually all employers to […]
Rarely has an elected official anywhere in the world lied with as much ease and disregard as the current occupant of the Oval Office. Donald Trump’s lies are so bountiful, it becomes necessary to group them into subcategories to catalogue them all. There are his broken promises, the things he said he would do as […]
On Wednesday morning, Megan Rapinoe, dressed in her “World Champion 2019” shirt, massive red-framed sunglasses, and her now-signature pink hair, was on a float in the ticker-tape parade in New York City, surrounded by teammates, fans, and, because nothing can be perfect, New York mayor Bill DeBlasio. She had been partying for three days straight […]
