Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition

Democrats running for president are awakening to the reality that Latinx voters, poised to become the largest nonwhite eligible voting bloc in 2020, are crucial to their chances of winning the presidency. The desire to connect with Latinx voters was apparent in this week’s presidential debates, when several contenders made a direct appeal to the growing electorate by answering questions in Spanish on the national stage.

The mission ofUnite America is lofty. As its name implies, the little-known group wants to heal a political system that has become “more divided and dysfunctional with each election cycle.” Its bipartisan mission is an implied critique of Fox News, which has been identified, in study after study, as a principal causeof the polarization that Unite America seeks to cure.

Elizabeth Warren’s political obituary was written in a thousand hot takes, each one burning hotter than the last. She seemed to be the latest challenger who President Donald Trump had trolled into oblivion, deftly exploiting identity fractures on the left. But standing center stage at the first Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday night,Warrenwas back. Herpresidential campaign rolled out of the gate with anemic small-dollar fundraising, raising less than $300,000.

As election results in the Queens district attorney race began coming in Tuesday evening, it was looking quite good for Melinda Katz, the Queens borough president who had the backing of the famous Queens machine. That supporting cast included every local member of the congressional delegation (save one), as well as the most famous ex-member, the one-time King of Queens, Joe Crowley. Crowley lost his seat in a stunner a year ago this week, and a shock was in store for Katz, too.

In 2018, a handful of House candidates came within a few percentage points of winning despite serious reservations from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that they had a shot. This time around, even as the candidates have launched new bids for office, the party committee is taking a hands-off approach. That’s a departure from how the DCCC, which is responsible for electing Democrats to the House, has done it in the past.

As the year 2012 wound down, Democrats hopefully eyed what looked to be one of the last opportunities for genuine legislative progress in a divided government. The party had just stomped Republican Mitt Romney at the polls in a post-Occupy campaign that centered on economic inequality. Democrats picked up two seats in the Senate, expanding their majority to 53 and adding Elizabeth Warren to their ranks.

When it comes to conservatives and the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion and labor rights are often considered among their prime targets. Brett Kavanaugh’s ascension to the court last fall, though, opened the road for a host of other challenges for which conservatives have quietly been laying the groundwork for years.

For Islamophobes, Mohamad Tawhidi is something very close to a godsend. A Shia Muslimcleric, raised in Australia and educated in Iran, Tawhidi presents himself as an Islamic reformer who embraces and amplifies far-right warnings that immigration by his fellow Muslims poses an existential threat to Western civilization. “He’s a hero,” the former New York Assembly MemberDov Hikind said last month, introducing Tawhidi to an audience of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.

Jay Inslee, a 2020 presidential hopeful, released an expansive plan on Mondaythatattempts to capture and rein in the full range of what’s propping up the fossil-fuel economy, from big banks, to lax drilling laws, to federal subsidies.

As politicians talk more about ramping up their commitments to reducing carbon emissions — over the weekend, even Vice President Mike Pencesquirmedwhen pressed on his climate denialism and said the U.S. is making progress on that front— one key aspect of the crisis remains conspicuously absent from most U.S discussions: so-called climate finance. The question of how much money the U.S.

I should have kept my mouth shut about the guacamole; that made things worse for me. Otherwise, what I’m about to describe could happen to any American who travels internationally. It happened 33,295 times last year. My work as a journalist has taken me to many foreign countries, including frequent trips to Mexico. On May 13, I was returning to the U.S.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, left, and Bernie Sanders speak at the NALEO Candidate Forum in Miami, Fla., on June 21, 2019. Photos: Joe Skipper/Getty ImagesA few days ago, I shared what I thought was a fairly innocuous observation about a fundamental difference between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

For over 17 years, Moath al-Alwi has been held at Guantánamo Bay without charge. A Yemeni citizen, al-Alwi is one of Guantánamo’s “forever prisoners,” those whom the U.S. government has not charged with a crime but is unwilling to release. On June 10, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in his case, the latest setback in al-Alwi’s long effort to obtain due process rights. Even though the court wouldn’t take al-Alwi up, Justice Stephen G.

Transgender rights activists rally in New York on June 10, 2019, to demand an investigation into the death of Layleen Polanco, a transgender woman, who was found dead while incarcerated at Rikers Island Jail. Photo: Stephanie Keith for The New York Times/Redux Too little is known about the death of Layleen Polanco. This we know: The 27-year-old Afro-Latina transgender woman was found dead in solitary confinementlast Friday afternoon at Rikers Island Jail.

Mary Jo Kilroy was elected to Congress at the height of the financial crisis, in November 2008, to represent Columbus, Ohio, and the surrounding area. She landed a seat on the Financial Services Committee, where she had a chance to address the foreclosure crisis ripping through her state, as well as to push for tougher regulation of Wall Street. As she learned to navigate Washington during her first term, one of the more unexpected pressures she faced was about a foreign trip.