Billionaire Tom Steyer announced last week that he is running for president, but this is far from his first foray…
The Truth Hurts
Libby Watson
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Splinter politics writer. libby.watson@splinternews.com
It is a day that ends in ‘y’, so we have another article about how Democrats are flubbing 2020 by not doing exactly…
Democratic supporters of the public option, which include Joe Biden but also Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand,…
The endless game of chasing down Republicans to ask them to condemn the racist president’s latest racist comments…
Tom Steyer has replaced Howard Schultz as the dumb, vain billionaire in the presidential race (Schultz hasn’t…
Joe my God what are you DOING!! Don’t you remember what happened last time you promised people they could keep their plans if they liked them? (28 percent of people with employer-sponsored insurance change plans or lose coverage within a year, so it would be an insane claim to make even if nothing changed.)
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After spending a few days lying about Medicare for All, Joe Biden has released his big plan to improve health…
BREAKING news in the EPIC civil WAR in the Democratic Party! The DEMS are in DISARRAY! The Hill got the JUICY DEETS:…
The Medicaid work requirements that states have implemented since the Trump administration allowed them to are…
Throughout this campaign, Joe Biden has not proved himself to have a particularly nuanced or accurate understanding…
Reset the old Days Without a New Democratic Presidential Candidate counter to zero: We’ve got a new one, and he’s a…
Here I am, putting my British Person in America hat, which is shaped like one of those Buckingham Palace guards’…
Remember Beto O’Rourke? That leggy Texan who stole our hearts and muddied the countertops of coffee shops across Iowa
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A feeling that has become familiar to many of us since November 2016: Oh my God, this is really happening? I did not…
It’s the first day of July, so summer is here and rent is due. You probably have to pay your student loans and…
Workers of Oregon, rejoice: The Oregon Senate has passed a House bill providing up to 12 weeks of paid family and…
Huge congratulations to Ivanka Trump for raking in almost $4 million from the Trump Hotel in DC last year, presumably for absolutely no work. More than 20 percent of American children live in poverty. But yeah, mainly, just massive congrats.
Remember in 2017, when Republicans said the tax bill would pay for itself—the idea being that the stimulant effects…
Centrist Democrats are ever so concerned, as they always are, about the unintended consequences of their progressive…