In the preface of the Contract With Black America that Ice Cube published in late August — amidst the ongoing global civil-rights uprising — professor and economist Darrick Hamilton wrote about what the 22-page document hoped to accomplish. Encouraged by the reinvigorated movement he’d seen around the world, Hamilton wrote …
Read More »The 5 Exchanges That Defined the Most Disgraceful Debate in Presidential History
Hours before Tuesday night’s debate, Donald Trump‘s campaign accidentally sent its post-event cash-call email early. Subject line: “I just stepped off stage.” “This debate will go down in HISTORY,” the Donald Trump of the future wrote to his supporters. And he was right, though probably not in the way he’d …
Read More »There's a Right and a Wrong Way to Talk About Trump's Attempts to Rig the Election
WASHINGTON —The communications guru Anat Shenker-Osorio likes to say that if liberals were writing a story about the mythical giant-slayer David, they’d end up making the story all about Goliath. Democrats and those on the left love to promise their supporters a fight and can’t talk enough about the opposition. …
Read More »Kamala Harris Is the Right Pick for Every Reason That Should Matter
When Joe Biden declared in March during a debate with Bernie Sanders that “there are a number of women who are qualified to be president tomorrow” and that he “would pick a woman to be my vice-president,” many celebrated it as a feminist victory. Sadly, as became evident within the …
Read More »Useful Idiots: Noam Chomsky on the Primary, Media Criticism, and COVID-19
In this week’s self-quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by linguist, historian, and activist Noam Chomsky, who offers a simple piece of advice for today’s politicians: “You have to face people where they are, not where you think they ought to be.” In addition …
Read More »Everything You Need to Know About the March Democratic Primary Debate
Related: RS Politics 2020 Democratic Primary Leaderboard Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have canceled their campaign events in response to the coronavirus outbreak, but the 11th Democratic primary debate will take place as scheduled. Kind of. Though the debate will air at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 15th, the …
Read More »Fox News Poll: 49% of Voters Want Trump Impeached and Removed From Office
President Donald Trump received bad polling news on Sunday, with a Fox News poll and NBC/WSJ both showing that 49 percent of voters want him impeached and removed from office. Not surprisingly, the president dismissed the results saying that he has “the real polls” and that all others are “fake” …
Read More »The Biden Paradox
Listen to this story below: On a blistering afternoon in the courtyard of the East Las Vegas Community Center, former Vice President Joe Biden steps to the lectern. With white hair and aviator glasses, he looks like he wandered off the set of an Invisible Man remake. “How’s he going …
Read More »2020 Dems: The Debates Aren't Going to Save You
WASHINGTON — The conventional wisdom that followed the first Democratic presidential debates looked something like this: Kamala Harris: dominant. Julián Castro: ascendant. Joe Biden: eviscerated. Harris and Castro were deemed the victors of round one of the DNC Battle Royale 2019. Biden was the clear loser and he knew it: …
Read More »