The New York Times tweet was triumphant, music to #Resistance ears: On the surface, it was a truly bipartisan defeat of Trump. A full 22 of those 68 yeas were Democrats. But every Senate Democrat who’s even rumored to be running for president voted nay. The list included Kamala Harris, …
Read More »Andrew Yang Wants to Be President — and Give You $1,000 a Month
In a year when the progressive Democratic platform is coalescing around variations of Medicare-for-All, free college and the Green New Deal, presidential candidate Andrew Yang stands apart — with a bold proposal to provide a “Freedom Dividend” of $1,000 a month to every adult in America. Yang — a lawyer, …
Read More »Heidi Heitkamp Refuses to Be a Lame Duck
Heidi Heitkamp sat in a meeting the other day with some surprised insurance lobbyists — they hadn’t expected her to take the appointment. The North Dakota Democrat told them: “How I was raised is, when you’re hired to do a job, you do the job until you’re done doing the …
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