Just four months ago, Virginia’s gubernatorial race saw historic voter turnout — as casting ballots at the time meant extending Medicaid coverage to 400,000 people. On Thursday, voting paid off. Virginia is currently one of 18 states that has not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) despite a majority of residents’ support. But the […]
On Thursday, Stormy Daniels’ name was uttered for the first time during a White House press briefing. “Last week the president’s personal lawyer acknowledged a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. Is the president aware that his lawyer paid that kind of money to a porn star to buy her silence? Does he approve of that?” […]
Despite a modest increase in overall coverage of climate change, Sunday news shows completely excluded scientists and climate journalists from their segments, while including few women and minority voices, according to new analysis from Media Matters. In 2017, the four major cable networks’ Sunday news shows — ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CBS’ Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the […]
For more than a decade, the First National Bank of Omaha has offered special branded Visa cards to National Rifle Association members to support the group. On Thursday, following two days of public pressure, the bank announced it “will not renew its contract” with the NRA. The bank confirmed, in a tweet, that “customer feedback […]
President Trump’s relentless crusade against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is already creating trouble for a community the White House has long purported to champion: U.S. farmers. An exclusive report from Reuters published on Thursday indicates that Mexican buyers are following through on their threats to shift away from U.S. suppliers. According to […]
In an about-face, Iran on Thursday indicated that it is willing to walk away from the 2015 nuclear deal if major banks continue to stay away from doing business with Iran, for fear of violating U.S. sanctions that remain in place. Reuters reports that Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said, […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND — Before getting to the hotel complex hosting the annual CPAC convention Thursday morning, 20-year-old Tabitha Jackson and 21-year-old Teresa Taborga-Urquiola spent part of the morning, like most days, on Facebook. Jackson said it was on the social network that she saw “pretty good evidence” and “proof” that at least one of the […]
On Wednesday evening in Pyeongchang, Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall made history when they won the first women’s cross-country gold medal for Team USA in Olympic history in the Team Sprint relay. It was a finish for the ages. After Diggins sprinted past the Swedish skier in the final meters of the relay, and crossed […]
President Trump campaigned on a pledge to end the supposed “war on coal” that he claimed President Obama had been waging. But the reality is that more coal capacity was retired in the first 45 days of 2018 than in each of the first three years of the Obama administration. In fact, Bloomberg New Energy Finance reported […]
On Thursday in Pyeongchang, the U.S. women’s national hockey team earned a victory 20 years in the making when it beat Canada in an overtime shootout to win the Olympic gold medal. The physical, electric, instant-classic of a game was capped off by a jaw-dropping shootout goal by Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, who employed a move that […]
Appearing Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch attacked ThinkProgress by name for allegedly failing to cover America’s broken background check system. Loesch suggested that the failure of media outlets including ThinkProgress to cover those deficiencies was driven by a desire for the system to fail and, presumably, for mass […]
A poll conducted by Democrats interested in taking control of the U.S. House seat currently held by retiring Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) finds that voters prefer a Democratic candidate to a Republican by 7 points. Nevertheless, Democrats could lose this seat thanks to the unusual way that California conducts elections. Rather than selecting candidates in […]
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s expensive first class travel isn’t just raising objections from environmentalists and Democratic legislators — Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) also wants answers. In a letter sent to Pruitt on Wednesday, Gowdy asked for information on all flights that Pruitt took in the last year, including whether […]
NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch claimed on Thursday that the crowd of shooting survivors in attendance at CNN’s gun control town hall on Wednesday night had threatened to hurt her, forcing her to flee the event with her husband to avoid any danger. “I had to have a security detail to get out,” Loesch said, speaking […]
If you just listened to what National Rifle Association national spokesperson Dana Loesch said on Wednesday’s CNN Town Hall on gun violence, you might think that the NRA’s positions on background checks and bump stocks are quite reasonable. The Tea Party co-founder and conservative radio host turned NRA flak responded to questions from survivors of last week’s horrific […]
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump sent out a series of tweets attempting to defend a point raised in another tweet from 2016 that suggested he was not in favor of arming teachers as a solution to school shootings. Crooked Hillary said that I want guns brought into the school classroom. Wrong! — Donald J. […]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) seemed to score a remarkable own goal during CNN’s gun violence town hall on Wednesday, when he mentioned the possibility of an assault weapons ban as though it would be a very bad thing — and the crowd erupted in cheers. “It’s not the loopholes, it’s the problem that once you […]
Tess Raser’s students have been studying colonialism in Africa for a month now. Next week — as part of the lesson plan — she intends to take her sixth graders to see Marvel’s Black Panther. For Raser, who teaches at an elementary school in Chicago’s South Side, Black Panther invites her students to meditate on […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An era of hate-filled rhetoric and global insecurity has endangered human rights around the world, spurring an extraordinary wave of social activism. Those are the underlying findings of Amnesty International’s (AI) annual State of the World’s Human Rights report, released for the first time on Thursday. Spanning more than 400 pages, the […]
During CNN’s Wednesday night town hall event, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Cameron Kasky asked Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) a simple question: will he continue to accept funds from the National Rifle Association in spite of the 17 lives that were taken last week. Rubio dodged the question. “The answer to the question is that people […]
Sen. Marco Rubio defended his opposition to an assault weapons ban Wednesday night at a town hall, where he was pushed by the father of a teenage victim of last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead. “I want to like you. Here’s the problem. And I’m a brutally honest person […]
In the days after the Parkland school mass shooting, President Donald Trump zeroed in on mental health as a primary culprit, but on Wednesday parents whose children were slain in the massacre called on him to acknowledge the role that guns played in the tragedy and to take action. Quoting the words of two families […]
As students across the country continue to advocate for gun control in the wake of last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would consider a proposal allowing teachers and other school staff to be armed. At a White House listening session that featured students and parents […]
Imagine being a teenager still reeling from the trauma of surviving a school shooting. Imagine being so infuriated and grief-stricken that you and your classmates decide to demand action on gun control. Then imagine being smeared by trolls on the internet as a liar and pawn in a Deep State conspiracy to deprive Americans of […]
During an interview with an Albany radio station on Wednesday, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) reacted to calls for gun control following the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida by claiming that “so many of these people that commit mass murders end up being Democrats.” Tenney made that claim as she […]