Booker Expresses Tepid Support for Charter Schools While Sanders Seeks To Stifle Them
Sen. Cory Booker's comments were in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders' public education plan, which targets charter schools.
Sen. Cory Booker's comments were in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders' public education plan, which targets charter schools.
Scuffling GOP primary challenger, meanwhile, defends his assertion that the president would prefer an "Aryan nation"
Competitors welcome chance to debate (and defeat!) the Republican congressman who is currently having a national moment.
As the special counsel steps down, he wants to make sure we understand why he won't accuse President Donald Trump of obstruction.
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.
Plus: Brexit triumphs in European Parliament elections and Princeton students want an Office of Intersectional Violence Investigations.
"Tariffs are taxes on Americans—and we talk as if that's not the case; we forget that Americans are paying them," says Pete Buttigieg. That shouldn't be noteworthy, but unfortunately it is.
There aren't more like him in Congress. Which is why he might take the third-party plunge.
Anti-prohibitionists are now trying to help those still impacted by old drug convictions.
It's a one-size-fits-all solution to a complex issue.
Bill de Blasio helped raise funds for the Sandinistas in New York and subscribed to the party's newspaper, Barricada, or Barricade.
Bill de Blasio's coming humiliation is just the latest evidence of the outer-borough president's revenge on Manhattan.
The president goes personal in his reply to a libertarian Republican congressman accusing him of obstruction of justice.
The unloved independent centrist is waiting to see if Joe Biden survives or is yanked too far leftward
The mayor of America's largest city is openly contemptuous of private property rights.
Trade has made Americans better off, and Democrats should use every opportunity to make that argument in the face of Trump's trade war.
If the past is any sort of guide to what comes next, his fears about a jobless economy (and his policy prescriptions to fix it) are completely misplaced.
Ilya Somin of "The Volokh Conspiracy" discusses the dangers of liberal proposals to pack the Supreme Court.
Single-payer would eliminate private health insurance as we know it today.
Biden, like Trump, understands the potential political appeal of "used to be," the warm nostalgia in the hearts and minds of older voters about what they imagine America was before its supposed decline.
Plus: Police raid reporters' home in San Francisco, a crackdown on free market economists in China, and more....
So much for impartial arbitration of intra-party competition.
Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates. There will be unintended consequences.
He'll creak in the direction of the prevailing political winds eventually, for good and mostly ill. It's his greatest weakness, and main selling point.
Cory Booker’s plan would unjustly deprive peaceful Americans of the fundamental right to armed self-defense.
The Democratic presidential candidate promises to fight for a design requirement that is not currently feasible.
Resist when politicians declare that speech (even radical speech) is a “threat to our democracy.”
Perhaps the biggest compliment to Trump's foreign policy is his political opponents largely want to make the 2020 election about domestic issues.
"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.
Friday A/V Club: Back in the '80s, Bernie Sanders had a public-access TV show. The archives are now online.
The Colorado Democrat opposes Medicare for All and universal free college.
The Democratic senator and 2020 presidential hopeful calls it her "Clean Elections Plan."
He's a centrist compared to Sanders, but he's also a classic big-government liberal.
The Vermont socialist can muster a lot of emotional outrage at CEO pay, but his argument about a "moral economy" doesn't add up.
With the Mueller report scaring off other GOP challengers, the special prosecutor's former boss calls on the president to resign, raises "millions," and continues to get drubbed in the polls.
Plus: A young adult novelist changes her mind about capitulating to the sensitivity mob.
Here's six reasons why early 2020 polls are likely underestimating Trump's strengths and overestimating his opponents'
O'Rourke wants net-zero emissions by 2050.
If you or your parents can afford to pay your way, you should.
Plus: life after ISIS, Kansas says state constitution guarantees abortion access, and more...
The libertarian-leaning senator also discusses his long, uphill fight to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
The former vice president has a long legacy of expanding federal power.
The democratic socialist from Vermont wants to radically expand coverage and benefits—while paying far less for health care services.
The California senator claims she could impose "near-universal background checks" and close the "boyfriend loophole" without new legislation.
Incarcerated people are already paying their debt to society. What good does it do the rest of the population to take away their right to have a say?