| Nov 14, 2018 | Economy / BusinessSomeone needs to buy a Grassroots USA tour package for the members of Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, so they can at least visit the real world once in their lives. The three advisors are ivory tower ideologues whose sole professional expertise seems to...
| Nov 13, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBeto O’Rourke may have lost his race for Senate, but he’s managed to change the political landscape of Texas — and maybe beyond — in just one campaign. He proved that Texas is more than the gun-slinging, oil-rich, old-fashioned state conservatives are trying so...
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| Nov 7, 2018 | RoundupAfter an exhausting midterm campaign, the results are in and they’re… mixed. Although Democrats won the House and several governor’s offices, the GOP scored a handful of Senate seats after a deeply disturbing late-stage campaign. This week in...
| | Rights / DemocracyWith the election over and a new Congress ready to be sworn in this January, I’m ready for a new, less toxic style of politics. Journalist McKay Coppins traces the toxic politics of today back to Newt Gingrich in the 1990s. Gingrich, he said, pioneered...
