Andrew Oneschuk and Jeremy Himmelman had been living in Tampa, Florida, for two weeks when, on Friday, May 19th, 2017, their roommate Devon Arthurs picked up an AK-47 rifle and shot them at close range. Oneschuk had just turned 18. Himmelman was 22. They’d been staying in a lush gated …
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Thomas Piketty, the French economist whose 2013 bestseller Capital in the 21st Century awoke upscale Americans to the shocking news that their economic system was not working for everyone, has written a new paper exposing more uncomfortable truths. Piketty’s new essay, called Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right, studied electoral trends …
Read More »Democrat Declares Victory in Pennsylvania – Here's What You Need to Know
With Conor Lamb clinging to a tight lead in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, Democrats appear to have finally broken through in a special House election, flipping a district that president Donald Trump won by nearly 20 points in 2016. Seen as a referendum on the president’s performance, Tuesday’s outcome is raising …
Read More »A Progressive Revolt Is Brewing in West Virginia
There is a revolt brewing in West Virginia politics. Last Friday Lissa Lucas, an author and celebrated backyard chicken farmer from Cairo, in the northwestern part of the state, brought the fight to the floor of the state capitol. The House of Delegates Judiciary Committee was hearing comments on House …
Read More »Mueller Starts Coming for Team Trump
Update:Minutes after announcing the indictments against Manafort and Gates, Mueller announced a plea agreement with George Papadopoulos, a former Ben Carson aide who served as one of Trump’s foreign policy advisers starting in March 2016, on a team overseen by then-Senator Jeff Sessions, now the U.S attorney general. In a …
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