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Dr. Robert Bullard had trouble selling a book in the late Eighties about what he knew to be true. He had written about a subject on which he’d long sounded the alarm: racism involving a sort of discrimination that is much more silent, a violence that doesn’t come via a …

Cardi B and Joe Biden had a candid discussion about Covid-19, police brutality and the upcoming 2020 presidential election in an interview in partnership with Elle magazine. The talk comes ahead of the Democratic National Convention this week. Over Zoom, Biden started off by asking what policies in the 2020 …

A new ad that attempts to capitalize on President’s Trump’s laissez-faire handling of the coronavirus crisis by using his own words against him seems to be a sure-fire strategy, but will it prove effective? The digital ad artfully pulls together clips of the president lying about the state of the …

When Julián Castro began telling me about the kind of person he is working to help, both with his campaign and with his new sweeping social-justice proposal, he started to talk about Freddie Gray. “He was the victim of police abuse,” Castro said over the phone about the 2015 homicide …

Maybe you thought that as time went on, the Democratic Party debates would become less chaotic, and easier to follow. Fooled you! Chapter four in the series of Democratic Party debates begins tonight in Westerville, Ohio, on the Otterbein University campus, and instead of ten candidates onstage, which has been …

The third Democratic presidential debate in Houston delivered. The diverse field — narrowed to the top 10 candidates, all sharing the same stage — engaged in a spirited disagreement about Medicare for All, grappled with the party’s (and Barack Obama’s) record on immigration and deportation, as well as shared personal …

President Donald Trump traveled to Pennsylvania on Monday to stand in front of Air Force One and speak to a fired-up crowd of supporters. Some of his time onstage was spent hammering 2020 election talking points, like immigration (“We don’t want people coming up here! Our country is full!”); the …

Related: 2020 Democratic Primary Leaderboard On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced she had turned down an invitation from Fox News to appear in a town hall event. She explained her reasoning in a Twitter thread, calling the network a “hate-for-profit racket,” and that she doesn’t want to “ask millions …

Maybe Joe Biden has been in politics too long. When he finally announced his run this week, he found he’d outlived the campaign cliché that once would have carried him to the White House: “electability.” After his launch, it seemed like the press didn’t know whether to describe Biden as …

To put it in standard public relations parlance, sex-work decriminalization is having something of a moment. New York lawmakers Julia Salazar and Jessica Ramos have announced plans to introduce a bill making New York the first state to decriminalize sex work, and last month a California senator introduced a bill …