As sky-high rents and a housing shortage become major issues in the 2024 presidential election, the U.S. Justice Department has sued software company RealPage, alleging its algorithm enabled landlords nationwide to collude in raising rents on tenants. The DOJ says the price-fixing scheme has impacted millions of renters across the United States.
We speak with Human Rights Watch researcher Milena Ansari about the organization’s new report detailing the torture of Palestinian medical workers in Israeli prisons. HRW spoke with eight doctors, paramedics and nurses who were picked up in Gaza before being transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman camp and other facilities, where they say they suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, electric shocks and other forms of abuse.
With a huge swath of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts set to expire at the end of next year, the presidential candidates are putting down markers on the issue.
“Using rehearsal time efficiently is a whole separate skill.
Overzealous lawyers caused a PR disaster.
The former top U.S. infectious disease expert is expected to make a full recovery.
The state Supreme Court ruled in favor of Attorney General Tim Griffin, who had accused the initiative’s backers of failing to submit the proper paperwork.
Democrats this week spotlighted stories of unwanted pregnancies and men who feared they’d lose their wives because they couldn’t obtain emergency abortions.
Many prominent conservatives and anti-abortion activists were outraged by the remark, calling it “nonsensical” and “cowardly.
Democrats have made restoring abortion access a cornerstone of their campaign for the White House and Congress, but there are divisions over what, exactly, that means.
The vice president makes her pitch in North Carolina, where Democrats have long hoped to flip the closely divided state.
The vice president’s plan aims to make housing more affordable, ease health care costs and crack down on corporations for rising grocery prices.
Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, vowing in her speech to the Democratic National Convention to continue the Biden administration’s tough line on immigration.
The Texas lawmaker trolled the former president over the upcoming debate against Kamala Harris.
The former president says he may not debate the vice president. Elizabeth Warren explains why.
The Georgia Democratic Party claims Trump’s allies are trying to “establish a new power of not certifying an election result should their preferred candidate lose.
Trump’s lawyers argued the Fulton County district attorney “obviously” wanted people to think Donald Trump was racist.
President Joe Biden announced the program in June.
Kamala Harris’ campaign announced Sunday that it had racked up $540 million in donations over its first month—an amazing number. But the $82 million that came in during last week’s Democratic National Convention shows that the campaign is maintaining the momentum and excitement that greeted the vice president’s late entry into the race after President Joe Biden stepped aside on July 21.
Not done quite yet processing my DNC 2024 Cartoon Sketchbook. Here’s DNC vs.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters has proved once again that there is wiggle room at the bottom. During primetime show “The Five,” Watters’ grotesque misogyny toward Vice President Kamala Harris prompted his fellow right-wing panelists Jeanine Pirro and Dana Perino to object.
“We don’t know who she is. We don’t know what she believes, Watters said.” She’s going to get paralyzed in the Situation Room while the generals have their way with her.
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Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election “on character.”
No, really. But bear with me; the headline wasn’t quite accurate.
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential bid, furthering her shift away from the party she sought to represent four years ago and linking herself to the GOP nominee’s critiques of Vice President Kamala Harris and the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal.
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know.
Trump flirts with bailing on Harris debate—again
His reasoning here is as believable as his claim that he’s “a better-looking person than Kamala.”
‘This is a problem’: The Trump train is running out of steam
“He’s not the same candidate we saw in 2016 or 2020.
The Atlantic has hired Shane Harris as a staff writer to cover national security and intelligence, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced today. Shane has been at The Washington Post since 2018, and will join The Atlantic in October.
Below is the staff announcement from Jeffrey Goldberg:
Some exciting news to start off the week: Shane Harris, one of the country’s most outstanding intelligence and national security reporters, will be joining us as a staff writer this fall.
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The 2024 presidential election was already like none in living memory: a matchup between the sitting president and a former president.
Then it got even more historically unusual.
We end today’s show in conversation with New York City Councilmember Yusef Salaam. He was one of five teenagers from Harlem — four Black and one Latino — wrongfully accused and convicted of raping and nearly killing 28-year-old white investment banker Trisha Meili in 1989. Meili had been jogging in Central Park when she was assaulted, and the accused teens became known as the Central Park Five.
