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Matt Taibbi | The Great Middle East Head-Fake
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "On the surface, it was a truly bipartisan defeat of Trump. A full 22 of those 68 yeas were Democrats. But every Senate Democrat who's even rumored to be running for president voted nay."
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "On the surface, it was a truly bipartisan defeat of Trump. A full 22 of those 68 yeas were Democrats. But every Senate Democrat who's even rumored to be running for president voted nay."
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Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, with his wife, Pam Northam, at a news conference in Richmond on Saturday. He has denied posing for a racist photograph in his medical school yearbook and refused to resign. (photo: Parker Michels-Boyce/NYT)
Gov Northam Refuses to Step Down, Despite Flood of Calls for His Resignation Over Racist Photo
Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) faced the national uproar over a racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook on Saturday and refused to resign, defying nearly the entire Democratic establishment and insisting that it was not his picture."
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Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) faced the national uproar over a racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook on Saturday and refused to resign, defying nearly the entire Democratic establishment and insisting that it was not his picture."
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Nora Phillips, right, is in tears as she is greeted by fellow immigration attorney Helen Sklar, left, as Phillips arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. Phillips was sent home when her U.S. passport was flagged while she tried traveling to Mexico. (photo: Al Seib/LA Times)
Immigrant Rights Attorneys and Journalists Denied Entry Into Mexico
Kat Linthicum, Cindy Carcamo and Molly O'Toole, The Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "'I think this is retaliation,' Phillips said. 'I think this is because we sued the U.S. government. I think it's that we're pointing out gross, flagrant human rights violations being committed by the U.S. government, and they don't like that.'"
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Kat Linthicum, Cindy Carcamo and Molly O'Toole, The Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "'I think this is retaliation,' Phillips said. 'I think this is because we sued the U.S. government. I think it's that we're pointing out gross, flagrant human rights violations being committed by the U.S. government, and they don't like that.'"
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By 29 January, Clark county public health identified 36 confirmed cases of measles and 12 suspected cases. (photo: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images)
Measles Outbreak Sparks Concerns Over Anti-Vaccination Movement
Jason Wilson, Guardian UK
Wilson writes: "A measles outbreak which has spread from south-west Washington to other parts of the Pacific north-west has highlighted low vaccination rates in the region, and the danger the disease presents to unvaccinated children."
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Jason Wilson, Guardian UK
Wilson writes: "A measles outbreak which has spread from south-west Washington to other parts of the Pacific north-west has highlighted low vaccination rates in the region, and the danger the disease presents to unvaccinated children."
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Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York visited the jail on Friday. (photo: theinformer.life)
No Heat for Days at a Jail in Brooklyn Where Hundreds of Inmates Are Sick and 'Frantic'
Annie Correal, The New York Times
Correal writes: "More than a thousand inmates have been stuck in freezing cells at a federal jail on the Brooklyn waterfront that has had limited power and heat for at least this week, according to federal public defenders and leaders of the union representing the jail's corrections officers."
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Annie Correal, The New York Times
Correal writes: "More than a thousand inmates have been stuck in freezing cells at a federal jail on the Brooklyn waterfront that has had limited power and heat for at least this week, according to federal public defenders and leaders of the union representing the jail's corrections officers."
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Rahaf al-Qunun. (photo: Getty Images)
Here's How the Saudi Press Has Been Smearing the Teen Who Fled Her Family
Anonymous in Saudi Arabia, ThinkProgress
Excerpt: "For weeks, Saudi papers and online chatter have railed against Rahaf al-Qunun, a teenager who last month fled her Saudi family in Kuwait and, detained in Thailand en route to Australia, garnered worldwide attention in a bid for asylum."
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Anonymous in Saudi Arabia, ThinkProgress
Excerpt: "For weeks, Saudi papers and online chatter have railed against Rahaf al-Qunun, a teenager who last month fled her Saudi family in Kuwait and, detained in Thailand en route to Australia, garnered worldwide attention in a bid for asylum."
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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez kicks off the Women's March in New York City on January 19, 2019. (photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis/Getty Images)
The Green New Deal: Movements (Finally) Get Visionary Again
George Lakey, YES! Magazine
Lakey writes: "Without bad-mouthing the concept, most Democratic politicians are now rushing to find ways to whittle the proposal down to something that won't upset the status quo. That would, of course, prevent it from meeting the needs of either climate or justice."
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George Lakey, YES! Magazine
Lakey writes: "Without bad-mouthing the concept, most Democratic politicians are now rushing to find ways to whittle the proposal down to something that won't upset the status quo. That would, of course, prevent it from meeting the needs of either climate or justice."
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