Will Bernie Sanders Stick With a Carbon Tax In His Push For a Green New Deal?
Sanders is a longtime proponent of taxing the country’s worst polluters, but he’s said very little about a carbon tax on the 2020 campaign trail.
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Rachel Cohen is a contributing writer for The Intercept and a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Vice, among other outlets.
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Kara Eastman Fell Just Short in 2018. The DCCC Is Recruiting a 2020 Opponent Anyway.
The DCCC seems to have little interest in 2020 in revisiting its assessment of candidates who almost won in 2018, despite having no party support.
Conservatives Are Nudging the Supreme Court to Dismantle Affordable Housing Policies
A conservative law firm has asked the Supreme Court to take up a challenge to inclusionary zoning, a tool localities use to increase affordable housing.
We Have to Finance a Global Green New Deal — or Face the Consequences
An international approach to tackling climate change would require the United States and other industrialized countries to give money to developing nations.
Conservatives Pushed a Strategy to Weaken Home Health Care Unions. The Trump Administration Bit.
In an audio recording obtained by The Intercept and Documented, State Policy Network leaders emphasized their plans to weaken home care workers' unions.
Connecticut's Democratic Governor Is Stonewalling a Bill That Would Make Phone Calls From Prison Free
With two weeks left in the legislative session, Gov. Ned Lamont has yet to express support for the bill, which is the first of its kind in the country.
GOP-Led Efforts to Crush Unions Have a New Target: Home Health Care Workers
Five states are suing the Trump administration for a rule that would impede home care workers’ ability to deduct union fees from Medicaid-funded paychecks.
Sunrise Movement Calls for Mass Climate Demonstration Outside Democratic Debate in Detroit
Sunrise Movement activists were joined by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Ed Markey at the final stop on the group’s road trip.
After a Black Cop Was Convicted of Killing a White Woman, Minnesota Activists Say Focus Should Be Police Reform
Mohamed Noor’s conviction marks the first guilty verdict for a fatal shooting by an on-duty cop in Minnesota in decades.
Washington Becomes First State to Approve Publicly Funded Long-Term Care
The measure is hailed as a monumental achievement for advocates working nationally to tackle the rising and formidable costs of care work and old age.