by MCDC | Dec 7, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Opinion
UPDATE: Republicans threatening to shut down government to ram through Trump’s defense secretary nomination https://medium.com/@michaelarnovitz/faking-a-mandate-a379c802e540#.oo2nd31nm In 1903 the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party broke into two...
by MCDC | Dec 6, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Issues, Racism, Virginia
Anti-Muslim rhetoric currently receives widespread media coverage. In the face of a massive refugee crisis and growing instability across the Middle East and North Africa, the public discourse often eschews nuanced distinctions about extremism and misappropriation of...
by MCDC | Dec 3, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Environment, News
It’s not just misleading to tweet about bad science. It’s dangerous. The collapse in Arctic ice formations is already putting major cities in the crosshairs of sea level rise, and leaders in the federal government need to act. Unfortunately, Lamar Smith (R-TX), an...
by MCDC | Dec 1, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News
Half-term former Governor Sarah Palin is under consideration for secretary of veterans affairs, a close Palin aide and a top Donald Trump transition official told ABC News. The aide said that the Tea Party darling recently told Trump transition officials, “I...
by MCDC | Nov 29, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News
Oh, what a tangled web we weave.. In addition to insulting law-abiding voters everywhere, these lies about fraud threaten the foundations of American democracy. They have provided the justification for state voter-suppression laws around the country, and they could...
by MCDC | Nov 18, 2016 | 2016 General Election, 2017 General Election, News
Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future in an ex post facto world During the days immediately before and after the presidential election that shocked much of the world, The New Yorker’s David Remnick was spending...
