Tag: 2020 presidential election
A new Supreme Court nominee before the election may spark a...
If the institutions of government are deemed illegitimate, preserving democracy may well be left to the people demanding justice.
2020’s first presidential debate does not have climate as discussion topic
“It is critical that every debate includes questions that ask the candidates what they would do to address climate change and environmental injustice.”
As Trump sows chaos, Sanders and Schumer call on McConnell to...
“We believe this issue is above partisan politics,” the senators wrote to the GOP Senate Majority Leader.
Where the election can go badly—and what we can do about...
It’s never been a good idea to take voting for granted. That’s especially true this year, when the very foundations of our democracy are on the ballot.
The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest...
On the one hand, this year’s election seems to have historically low levels of undecided voters. But offsetting this is tremendous uncertainty about turnout and whose votes will be cast and counted.
Trump wants out – by losing the ‘rigged’ election, not by...
Finding the least bad way to escape being cornered for another four years is exactly how a discredited but unrepentant con artist makes his last public scam.
The presidential election: “A 200-pound sack of concrete” vs. “the orange...
The entrenched system is heavily weighted -- always has been -- against the interests of working people, women, people of color, the poor and others deprived of power by structural inequities.
My last (electoral) dance
“When November comes around (even earlier as we vote by mail in Florida, where the Republican Trump stooge governor has made it ok) my vote, FOR THE LAST TIME, will be for any and all Democrats on the ballot.”
How Trump will try to win the election
Donald Trump hates to lose. Here’s how he’ll try to steal an electoral victory.
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Ugliest of ugly Americans, desperate for face-saving charades, exports chaotic, boorish pestilence abroad
Stuntery, like putz-ery, is readily undone and when it flops, it turns against itself.
The rage of billionaires and the frenzy to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming New...
That strategy is now striking fear into the hard hearts of insatiably greedy billionaires.
GOP budget standoff deepens as internal revolt stalls Trump’s $3.3 trillion megabill
Senate hold-outs cite draconian Medicaid and SNAP cuts while a new CBO score warns the measure will add $3.3 trillion to the debt even as Republican leaders race to meet Trump’s July 4 deadline.
Heinrich-backed ORPHAN Cures Act returns in GOP reconciliation bill, critics say it gifts Big...
Senate parliamentarian reverses an earlier ruling, letting a provision that shields multi-use orphan drugs from Medicare price talks ride on Republicans’ budget package as patient advocates warn of higher costs for taxpayers and seniors.
A ‘striking’ trend: After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled to death during...
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.