Truth, Lies, and the Democratic Debate
With the focus on a potential Warren-Sanders rivalry, last night’s debate again let Joe Biden skate by without much scrutiny of his record.
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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.
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.
Colorado’s Democratic Governor Demanding Private Insurers Be Given the State’s Family Leave Program
A last-minute dispute over the structure of a paid family leave program is threatening to derail a signature piece of progressive legislation in Colorado.
What Reconstruction and the New Deal Can Teach Us About What Comes After the Pandemic Presidency
Yale professors and Pulitzer Prize winners David Blight and Greg Grandin are this week's guests.
Trump Bungles Hit on Cuomo and Shatters Own Wrongness Record on "1917" Pandemic
The president's attack on Andrew Cuomo misfired, and he mistakenly referred to the 1918 flu pandemic as something that happened in 1917 for the 24th time.
Buttigieg Blames Private Equity Firms for Surprise Billing. One of His Bundlers, a Blackstone Exec, Is Linked to the Problem.
Blackstone, a private equity firm, owns a hospital staffing company involved in manufacturing surprise billing schemes, which Buttigieg has pledged to ban.
Multiple Yvette Clarke Primary Challenges Put Progressives in a Strategic Quandary
While James’s campaign has stalled, Adem Bunkeddeko, who nearly unseated Clarke in 2018, is the leading progressive challenger in the primary.
Chasing Sales During Coronavirus Pandemic, States Declare Lotteries “Essential”
Lotteries have been deemed essential services because of the funding they provide to the state. Meanwhile, they put players and workers at risk.
The Trump Administration Just Killed Iran's Most Famous Military Commander. We're Not Ready for What's Next.
The assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani may be President Donald Trump’s most reckless foreign policy move to date.