Michael Gianaris has a plan to address New York’s coronavirus-induced rent crisis, and he wants it implemented two weeks ago —not tomorrow. Gianaris, a state Senator from Queens, wants to cancel rent for 90 days, aiming to keep tenants safe and secure in their homes while COVID-19 has frozen large …
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T here is persona and there is reality in Greta Thunberg.It is Valentine’s Day in her hometown of Stockholm, but there’s only wind, no hearts and flowers. A few hundred kids mill about, with a smattering of adults. If there were not signs reading “Our Earth, We Only Have One,” …
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If Bernie Sanders believed he could win, he’d be trying harder to hype this weekend’s “virtual debate” with Joe Biden. Originally, the one-on-one showdown was scheduled in Arizona. In a surreal concession to the coronavirus disaster, the CNN-hosted affair will instead feature just Biden and Sanders onstage in Washington, D.C., …
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CHARLESTON, S.C. —Abe Jenkins is a Charleston native and a fixture in the political scene in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. His grandfather was the revered civil rights activist Esau Jenkins, a businessman and civic leader who organized the black community on the islands around Charleston. Esau and his wife, Janie, transported …
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Democrats’ Iowa caucus produced endless bitterness but no uncontested winner. Here are 10 ways the caucus process went wrong. Misapportioned “State Delegate Equivalents” The formula for determining the number of delegates a candidate receives in Iowa is based upon the number of “state delegate equivalents” received in each precinct. That …
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Lev Parnas, an indicted crony of personal Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, has given House impeachment investigators a new cache of documents, including a handwritten note from the Ritz-Carlton in Vienna, Austria, that appears to document the plot to get Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Parnas, a naturalized American citizen born …
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Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz created waves in Washington last week with the release of a lengthy report about the origins of the “Crossfire Hurricane” Trump-Russia investigation. Pundits focused on his finding of no “political bias” in the decision to investigate Donald Trump, while conservatives focused on abuses of …
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Andrew Yang is not your conventional presidential candidate, which is a large part of why the former tech executive who built his campaign around a promise to give every American $1,000 a month has been able to maintain momentum, keep raising money, and find himself polling better than all but …
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Donald Trump’s steady effort to sink Barack Obama’s legacy, and the country along with it, continues apace. Even as he frets about impeachment, this president is eliminating clean air and water standards, his administration is attacking Obamacare in the courts, and his torrid pace of judicial appointments already threatens to …
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When ABC News told Bernie Sanders that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may run for president because he did not like the current field of candidates, the senator from Vermont responded, “That is the arrogance of billionaires.” Sanders then went on to criticize the reported plans of the …
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