Unless world governments, consumers, and businesses all work together to address the root causes of the current burning of the Amazon rain forest, the Arctic, and forests in the Congo and Angola, the planet will continue careening toward a point of no return, the U.N.’s top biodiversity expert said Friday. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, executive secretary […]
Howard Schultz was heckled Monday night at an event as he discussed his plans for a potential 2020 third-party presidential bid. The former Starbucks CEO was interrupted during an interview at a promotional tour stop at a Manhattan bookstore by a protester who warned Schultz could help reelect President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge […]
President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE waded into the 2020 Georgia Senate race on Wednesday, casting doubt on Democrat Stacey Abrams’s chances of beating […]
Sen. Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Democrats demand Republican leaders examine election challenges after Georgia voting chaos Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk MORE (D-Minn.) and […]
Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten GillibrandWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Warren, Pressley introduce bill to make it a crime for police officers to deny medical care to people in custody Senate Dems press DOJ over coronavirus safety precautions in juvenile detention centers MORE (D-N.Y.) on Sunday delivered a […]
In what Justice Democrats celebrated as “an incredibly important moment,” 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday endorsed Jessica Cisneros and Marie Newman—a pair of progressive primary challengers to conservative incumbent Democrats in Congress. Cisneros, who is challenging Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), and Marie Newman, who is challenging Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.), […]
With the prospect growing that the U.S. House could proceed with a formal impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Democrat’s 2020 presidential candidates are reassessing the political calculus and the campaign of Bernie Sanders made that fact apparent over the weekend by adjusting one of its existing slogans from “Bernie Beats to Trump” to a […]
Progressive groups and Democratic lawmakers expressed serious concerns Thursday about corporate attorney Eugene Scalia—President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Labor Department—as the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee met to consider his nomination. “If there’s one consistent pattern in Mr. Scalia’s long career, it’s hostility to the very workers he would be charged […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday evening used an attack from the right about her past experience with gender discrimination to lead a national conversation about a common occurrence in American workplaces—the firing, demotion, and unfair treatment of workers who become pregnant. “Rendering subjects of discrimination untrustworthy narrators, because they can’t prove it, or perhaps aren’t even […]
The national advocacy group Free Press expressed support Monday for the hundreds of Facebook employees who recently have signed on to an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticizing the social media giant’s policy of exempting political advertising from its “misinformation” standards. “Facebook’s own employees are rising up against the company’s dangerous decision to help […]