It turns out that the services benefiting the well-to-do are most impacted by DC’s ICE crackdown.

The central question at the heart of so much of today’s political commentary is who best represents working Americans. Once the working class was solidly Democratic. Not anymore. Why did blue collar Americans — the heart of FDR’s New Deal Coalition — turn toward the Republican Party? That realignment, slow and seismic, is one of the most consequential in American political history. To understand what happened, it is instructive to go back to a violent afternoon in downtown Manhattan — May 8, 1970 — the day that labor erupted.

U.S. energy policy stinks because it accelerates rising methane emissions, which accelerate climate change. The Trump administration is attacking renewable energy, most recently taking a whole-of-government approach to savaging wind power, while aggressively pushing dirty natural gas production and LNG exports, and even threatening countries that try to decrease reliance on fossil fuels.

California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The ban is a direct response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, where federal agents wore masks while making mass arrests. The […]

NFL star and noted activist Colin Kaepernick is paying for an independent second autopsy for a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree. Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University whose body was found on campus a week ago. The state’s medical examiner ruled it a suicide, but […]