2020's Underdogs Are Attacking Bernie Sanders at Their Own Peril






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2020's Underdogs Are Attacking Bernie Sanders at Their Own Peril 
Bernie Sanders. (photo: Antonella Crescimbeni)
Hanna Trudo, The Daily Beast
Trudo writes: "Several of 2020's biggest Democratic underdogs are learning a hard lesson trying to break out from the bottom: attacking Bernie Sanders as a primary campaign strategy gets you nowhere."
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Robert Mueller. (photo: NBC)
Robert Mueller. (photo: NBC)

Justice Department Tells Mueller to Not Answer a Wide Swath of Questions
Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The Justice Department instructed former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in a letter Monday not to answer a wide variety of questions about his investigation of the president and Russian interference in the 2016 election."
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The 1971 May Day protests against the war in Vietnam. (photo: Wally McNamee/Getty Images)
The 1971 May Day protests against the war in Vietnam. (photo: Wally McNamee/Getty Images)

Tom Engelhardt | Planet of the Surreal: Turning 75 in the Age of Trump
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "As I turn 75, there's no simpler way to put it than this: I'm an old man on a new planet - and, in case it isn't instantly obvious, that's not good news on either score."
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CBP was demanding ID before allowing passengers to get off the plane. (photo: freeCodeCamp)
CBP was demanding ID before allowing passengers to get off the plane. (photo: freeCodeCamp)

The Stuff of Dystopian Nightmare: ACLU Lawyers Stop Border Agents From Demanding ID After Domestic Flights
Garrett Epps, The Atlantic
Epps writes: "Even today, it seems like the stuff of dystopian nightmare. In February 2017, as the country confronted the reality of Trump's immigration agenda, it was (to employ an overused Trump-era word) terrifying."
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Dr. Ben Carson speaking at a luncheon at the National Press Club. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
Dr. Ben Carson speaking at a luncheon at the National Press Club. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)

Ben Carson Admits That Black Americans Are Struggling in Trump's Economy
Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
Israel writes: "Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson admitted Sunday that America's black homeownership rates have fallen to the lowest levels on record during President Donald Trump's administration."
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Boris Johnson. (photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)
Boris Johnson. (photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)


Boris Johnson to Be UK Prime Minister After Winning Party Vote
Stephen Castle, The New York Times
Castle writes: "Boris Johnson, Britain's brash former foreign secretary, on Tuesday won the contest to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, with his party handing the job of resolving the country's three-year Brexit nightmare to one of the architects of the project, and one of the country's most polarizing politicians."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Bernie Is the Best Chance We Have on Climate
Matt Huber, Jacobin
Excerpt: "Electing Bernie Sanders president wouldn't be enough to fight climate change. But his class-struggle politics give us the best chance we have to take on the fossil fuel companies."
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