Bloomberg Serves Oligarchy and Patriarchy Before Any Party

Alison Rose Levy / Truthdig Feb 20, 2020 Credit where credit is due: The DNC’s latest “moderate” prospect for 2020 comes complete with a slate of blatantly nonprogressive stances. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

McConnell Resists Pressure to Address Gun Violence

LISA MASCARO and MATTHEW DALY / The Associated Press Aug 7, 2019 The president is calling for an expansion of background checks for gun sales, but the Senate leader knows such ideas have little GOP support. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Dreamers’ Left in Limbo as Senate Rejects Immigration Bills

ALAN FRAM and KEVIN FREKING / The Associated Press Feb 15, 2018 Senators deal President Trump an especially galling defeat as more than a quarter of fellow Republicans abandon him on an issue that helped elect him. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Months After Calling the Prospect ‘Crazy,’ Facebook Brags About Its Ability to Swing Elections

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 5, 2017 A “made-for-Facebook creative strategy was an essential component" to Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Pat Toomey’s re-election, the company says. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Elizabeth Warren Skewers Wells Fargo CEO, Accusing Him of Greed and ‘Gutless Leadership’ (Video)

By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams Sep 21, 2016 "You should resign, you should give back the money you took while this scam was going on and you should be criminally investigated by both the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Way Forward on Guns

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Apr 22, 2013 Victories often contain the seeds of future defeats. So it is -- or at least should be -- with the Senate's morally reprehensible rejection of expanded background checks for gun buyers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Party Backs Away From Sanford, GOP Lawmaker Calls Women ‘Vaginas,’ and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Apr 18, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including a bipartisan gun control deal collapses in the Senate and a Texas congressman makes insulting comments about the Boston Marathon bombings. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Poison Sent to Senator’s Office, Erik Rush’s Incendiary Tweet, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Apr 17, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including the release of a post-9/11 torture report that lays the blame squarely at the feet of the nation's highest officeholders and the unveiling of a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Mass Violence, Gun Control and the American Culture of Death

Bill Blum / Truthdig Apr 16, 2013 In the wake of Monday's deadly Boston Marathon bombings, should we urge the Senate to proceed with the gun control debate as scheduled? Or should we condemn both chambers of Congress and the president for doing too little, too late to deal with the problem of mass violence and what some have termed the nation’s culture of death?The Boston Marathon blasts took the lives of three people. They also threaten to take another casualty, postponing, if not entirely derailing, the Senate debate on gun control. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Joe Sestak’s Witching Hour

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Oct 28, 2010 If there is one candidate who truly wishes that Christine O'Donnell had not won the Republican senatorial nomination in Delaware, it is the Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )