Janeese Lewis George secured victory in Tuesday’s Washington, D.C., Democratic mayoral primary. Her success positions Washington to install its first socialist mayor. The Ward 4 councilwoman trumped challenger Kenyan McDuffie by a significant margin. In a city where the Democratic primary effectively decides the office holder, Lewis George is nearly certain to become the next […]
Janeese Lewis George, an avowed socialist and proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America, took a commanding lead in Washington, D.C.’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, all but guaranteeing she will be the next mayor of the nation’s capital. As radical as Lewis George’s socialist policies are, however, they should not be thought of as […]
Some Republicans are already lacing into the agreement
The nation’s 44th president is preparing for the grand opening ceremony of The Obama Presidential Center, a 19-acre campus standing tall over Chicago’s south side where former President Barack Obama grew up. The center is a privately-funded complex that features interactive experiences, a basketball court, a community garden and a public library. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell shares an inside look for TODAY.
New York is celebrating the Knicks in classic style Thursday, throwing a ticker-tape parade for the team that brought home the NBA championship longed for by generations of fans.
"If it doesn’t get done in 60 days… we go back to bombing,” Trump said.
The memorandum of understanding President Donald Trump brokered to negotiate an end to the Iran war is already being harshly panned by many on the right — and some are beginning to set up Vice President JD Vance to take the fall.This pivot was demonstrated clearly on Fox News Wednesday, as GOP personality Ben Shapiro unloaded on the vice president."This MOU appears to be a disaster that does not achieve any of the actual goals set by the administration at the beginning," he said. "The Vice President, the chief negotiator on this project, has not well served the president."Shapiro's reaction got noticed by many observers on social media — many of whom noted that Vance wasn't even responsible for negotiating the deal, and he opposed the war with Iran from the beginning, but that none of that seems to matter in MAGA world."There it is," said Missouri Democratic congressional candidate Fred Wellman. "Vance didn't negotiate this, but he is the designated bus target because it was actually Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff who Trump will never turn on. This is the setup they always wanted. I love this for Vance because he thought he would be the one who survives.""Stab-in-the-back 2026: The process begins on the right of blaming @VP, not Trump nor the original Trump/Netanyahu conviction that war could break Iran to their demands, for the failure of the war to achieve what Trump allies promised it would (actually had promised for years)," said Bloomberg Opinion writer Ronald Brownstein.Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) had a blunt message: "Shame on you @benshapiro. This isn’t on Vance. This humiliating foreign policy debacle/disaster is on Trump. This is Trump’s [expletive] up, and only Trump’s [expletive] up. Have the guts to say that."
Following the supreme court’s gutting of the voting rights act, the president’s recent claims of fraud are cause for serious concernThe first case I argued in the supreme court was in 1982. I represented African American voters from Burke county, Georgia, where no Black person had ever been elected to office even though 40% of the voters were Black. The reason was simple. All candidates were elected at large by the voters of the entire county, and the white majority could outvote Black voters every time.Federal law banned many older methods of southern discrimination–the bogus literacy tests, “understanding” tests, and poll taxes, for example – but structural barriers like the one in Burke county were pervasive, and they suppressed Black politics across the south. In Georgia, fewer than one percent of the elected officials in the state were African Americans while more than a quarter of the state’s registered voters were Black. Continue reading...
Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. What cruel irony that we learned last week that Social Security is going broke even sooner […]