Michelle Childs Sentenced a Man to 12 Years for Selling Eight Ounces of Weed
‘I had more time than people in there who killed somebody,’ says Willie Roy Goodwin, who received the harsh sentence from the Supreme Court hopeful.
View ArticleMichelle Childs, Jim Clyburn, and One Man’s Love of Hunting Quail
A South Carolinian scion was facing stiff penalties for killing federally protected hawks. Rep. Clyburn asked Judge Michelle Childs to consider his character.
View ArticleProgressives Gain a Foothold in Texas
In the first primaries of the 2022 cycle, left-wing candidates for the House do well.
View ArticleThe Biden Education Department Drags a Bankrupt Cancer Patient Into Court
Despite vowing to change the way student loans are treated in bankruptcy, the administration is still using its discretion to limit payouts.
View ArticleWill Spiking Energy Prices Necessitate Student Loan Debt Cancellation?
The Biden administration has promised a decision by May.
View ArticleIf Only There Were an Infrastructure Bill to Deal With This Oil Crisis
By pouring money into fossil fuel infrastructure, the bipartisan law is already showing its tragic inadequacies.
View ArticleThe Eight Congressmen Subverting the SEC’s Crypto Investigation
Call them the ‘Blockchain Eight.’
View ArticleOil Company Profit-Gouging Began With the CARES Act
The benefits fossil fuel companies derived from COVID relief created the dynamic in the industry we see today.
View ArticleGOP to CFPB: Go Easy on the Banks!
The Republican caucus tries to protect a bank’s right to rip off its customers.
View ArticleHow Republican Rep. John Rose Found His Wife
This Tennessee representative married a college undergraduate when he was 45.
View ArticleConor Lamb’s Shift on Campaign Finance
The Senate hopeful is doing fundraising that would have been outlawed by voting rights bills he supported.
View ArticleJohn Fetterman vs. Every Predatory Financier in America
Wall Street money rains on the Pennsylvania Senate race.
View ArticleThe Ohio Model for Purging Progressives
A Democratic establishment victory in a House race last year has emboldened big money to upend this primary cycle.
View ArticleSuper PACs Play Loose With the Facts in Promoting Corporate Dems
In races in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, corporate PAC ads have been taken off TV for misinformation.
View ArticleDem Voters Want Dem Pols Who Do Things
The Joe Manchin wing of the party lost big on Tuesday.
View ArticleWill Progressives in Swing Districts Get the Cuellar Treatment From...
In recent House primaries, Nancy Pelosi saved Henry Cuellar but threw Kurt Schrader to the wolves. Now what?
View ArticleThe RNC’s Ground Game of Inches
Inside the secretive, dubious, and extremely offline attempt to convert minorities into Republicans
View ArticleWhy Are Police So Bad at Their Jobs?
It’s not just Uvalde. Cops nationwide can’t stop crimes from happening or solve them once they’ve occurred.
View ArticleWill AIPAC Crush One of Congress’s Most Prominent Jewish Democrats?
Former union organizer and synagogue president Andy Levin is being challenged by AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups, largely over his progressive views.
View ArticleSenate Feminist Spends Last Days of ‘Roe’ Shilling for Crypto Bros
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is teaming up with Republican Cynthia Lummis on a cryptocurrency bill that supporters and detractors alike see as mostly hands-off.
View ArticleNew York’s Democratic Primary Could Decide the Fate of Democrats’ Big Tech Push
If Jerry Nadler loses, the House Judiciary Committee leadership would likely go to Silicon Valley defender Zoe Lofgren.
View ArticleAIPAC Has Taken Over the Democratic Primary Process
What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul?
View ArticleSean Patrick Maloney’s Hazardous Support for Dirty Energy Infrastructure
The story of Maloney’s office shutting down a colleague who tried to stir up opposition to a fracked-gas plant is part of a pattern.
View ArticleIt’s Time for Public Pharma
Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care.
View ArticleHow Biden’s Biggest Achievement Got Derailed
Excessive reverence for unwritten Senate rules has dashed the campaign to remake the bench.
View ArticleNew York Times Faces Backlash Over Dan Goldman Endorsement Debacle
There are ties between the families of Goldman and Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, who took an interest in the endorsement.
View ArticleCould Yuh-Line Niou Run on the WFP Line?
A progressive split in New York’s deep-blue Tenth District could help self-funding moderate Dan Goldman win the primary. But the Working Families Party could run their own general-election challenger.
View ArticleThe ‘Dobbs’ Election
Democrats look to the ballot to punish Republican overreach on abortion.
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