A group of young, white men in “Team Mitch” t-shirts gather around a cardboard cutout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Several of them hold their thumbs down, while one holds the cut-out aroun…
#IStandWithIlhan: Minnesotans Greet Omar With Love
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar arrived in her home state of Minnesota to a large crowd of supporters at the airport who cheered and shouted “welcome home Ilhan” as she greeted her loved ones.…
Sarah Sanders to step down as White House Press Secretary
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is stepping down from her role in the Trump administration. Trump announced her resignation via Twitter this morning. After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah H…
Universal childcare? Exactly the kind of bold idea we need
“I remember how hard it was to find affordable and high-quality child care when I was a working mom with two little ones. I had a job teaching at a law school in Houston when the babysitter quit…
‘You weren’t supposed to do that’: Trump upstaged by the women in white
There are 103 women in the 116th Congress, making it the most female Congress ever. And yesterday during President Donald Trump’s State Of The Union Address the large cohort of women certainly m…
Nancy Pelosi blocks Donald Trump’s State of the Union address
President Donald Trump will not be giving his State of the Union speech on the House floor next Tuesday after the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote him a letter telling him she would not authorise the …
An extraordinary year for women as record numbers contest US midterm elections
It was said that 2018 would be the ‘year of women’, and next week’s midterm elections in the United States could be the serious test of just what that means. A record number of women…
Barack Obama: Men are ‘getting on my nerves’, let’s empower more women
When things look too corrupt or too broken, that’s the time to get in and fix it. At least that’s what former US president Barack Obama suggested overnight to an audience of young leaders …
‘I misspoke’: Another astonishing display of “leadership” from Donald Trump
Throughout Donald Trump’s political career – from aspiring Republican candidate, to Presidential candidate, to President-elect to President – we have become accustomed to the shocks. To the unfathomab…
Donald Trump as President is worse than anyone imagined.
When he stood as a candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination? He’ll never get it, we thought. He did. When he ran against Hillary Clinton for President? He’ll never win, we thought.…
