A Campaign Finance Rule Makes Life Much Harder for Working-Class Challengers
The FEC allows candidates to draw salaries from campaign contributions, but they cannot do so until the filing deadline for entering the primary has passed.
Politics
Targeting Iran
Key Architect of 2003 Iraq War Is Now a Key Architect of Trump Iran Policy
The continued self-confidence of neocons like David Wurmser is odd given how all their beliefs were proven disastrously wrong in Iraq.
Pete Buttigieg's Campaign Used Notoriously Low-Paying Gig-Work Platform for Polling
The campaign’s use of Mechanical Turk is in sharp contrast with Buttigieg’s outspokenness about the need for protections for gig workers.
Voices
Iran Tensions Showed How Much More Work an Effective U.S. Anti-War Movement Needs to Do
A path forward exists: the path of a solidarity-oriented mass movement coupled with direct action.
Trump Supporter Who Discussed Surveillance of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Has History of Stalking, Mental Health Issues
The Intercept obtained police records showing that Robert Hyde violated a restraining order sought by a Republican consultant for stalking.
At the Iowa Debate, Bernie Sanders’s Most Vociferous Opponent Was CNN
Bernie Sanders took a beating from CNN moderators in the January Democratic presidential primary debate — the last one before the Iowa caucuses.
Bernie Sanders’s Lonely 2017 Battle to Stop Iran Sanctions and Save the Nuclear Deal
With Iran tensions soaring, Bernie Sanders stands as a leading anti-war candidate — and a 2017 fight over sanctions bolsters his case.
Don’t Take the Bait, Progressive Leaders Warn, After Sanders-Warren Spat Overtakes the News Cycle
Leaders from several progressive groups, including Indivisible and MoveOn, called on the candidates to cease attacking each other and focus on the issues.
Fact Check: Joe Biden Has Advocated Cutting Social Security for 40 Years
“I tried with Senator Grassley back in the 1980s to freeze all government spending, including Social Security, including everything,” Biden said in 1995.
How Massive Donations From Howard G. Buffett Helped Block the Opening of a Pot Dispensary in Illinois
Buffett’s foundation has donated tens of millions of dollars to law enforcement programs and drug rehabilitation efforts in Decatur, Illinois.