Remy: Democratic Debate (The Rap)
Remy joins the debate stage. Apparently they'll let anybody up there.
Remy joins the debate stage. Apparently they'll let anybody up there.
At the second Democratic debate, the presidential hopeful showed her affinity for executive action.
Several candidates seem to view profit as one of the biggest threats facing America.
The Democratic candidate absolutely destroyed the idea that violence is OK when the government does it.
"Working families should not have to pay the price for the president's reckless use of this tariff authority," says Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a Florida Democrat.
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Do anything else. Literally anything else. Please.
Early debates actually tell us a good deal about where political parties are heading.
Most of the party’s presidential contenders show little or no concern for the right to armed self-defense.
A discussion about the state of the party, as presidential debate season kicks off
A majority of Democratic voters now favor free trade. Some of the party's presidential candidates are starting to notice.
The benefits of a backlash
We’ve got so many giveaways, we’re practically giving them away!
Sen. Cory Booker's comments were in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders' public education plan, which targets charter schools.
The good news: Capitalism is working its way back to the Democratic mainstream. The bad news: This capitalism comes with a whole lot of government.
Recent articles by Tyler Cowen and Farhad Manjoo highlight anti-immigrant effects of many Democrats' policies on zoning and other issues. The party is not quite as bad as the Republicans. But that's damning with faint praise.
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"If we had to pick one of them to be our president, I think she would be giving us the best chance for bringing about peace."
And that's just one of the measures outlined in his new gun control proposal.
The Colorado Democrat opposes Medicare for All and universal free college.
O'Rourke wants net-zero emissions by 2050.
If you or your parents can afford to pay your way, you should.
Plus: Ohio moves to ban kids in drag shows while Washington wants to keep kids in car seats through middle school.
Harris supported a truancy law that listed jail time as a punishment for parents.
The Indiana mayor has already made a national name for himself.
Plus: a radical remembering of the suburbs; support for sex-work decrim in NY; Bret Easton Ellis on Mueller and media
The presidential candidate suggested at the time that charter schools and traditional public schools can coexist.
It's too early to make predictions based on public opinion surveys.
But that might not stop House Democrats from Net Neutrality-related histrionics.
Plus: An Ohio city just abolished its entire vice policing unit, and unfunded liabilities in public pension plans are now more than $5.96 trillion.
Legitimately interesting yet eminently mockable GenXer Beto O'Rourke joins the 2020 presidential scrum.
Plus: outrage over water bottles, and Cory Booker introduces the "next step" on criminal justice reform
Just 18 percent of Americans have favorable views of socialism.
Beto O'Rourke-who won't call himself a "progressive," let alone a "democratic socialist"-is expected to jump into the presidential race.
"This isn't a partisan issue," the Utah senator says. "This is a constitutional issue."
More than 200 Democrats-plus one Republican-co-sponsor a joint resolution against Trump's national emergency declaration.
The Vermont independent has yanked Democrats so far to the left that his competitors are becoming mini-mes.
The Minnesota senator says the national debt constrains policymaking, giving the rare impression of a candidate who has actually thought things through.
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They got nothing in return for handing Trump money except for a national emergency.
Congressional leaders have reached a compromise. But Trump will have the final say.
Trump won much more than the Democrats did.
New Yorkers don't want him. Why would the rest of the country?
Untethered from real-world constraints, progressive Democratic policy goes utopian.
It's an inversion of the formula Trump used to get elected by scapegoating illegal immigrants. She's just targeting a different minority group.
"Minnesota Nice" branding belies mean streak and temper, said staff. Will it harm her presidential chances?
There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America.