In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by David Rees, political-prediction maker and former Get Your War Oncartoonist forRolling Stone. Matt takes “a little shot at our ownRolling Stonefor its Andrew Cuomo cover.… He’s one of the biggest douchewads in politics, a …
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Speaking from Burlington on Wednesday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders cut to the chase: “Last night was obviously not a good night for our campaign, from a delegate point of view,” he said. And that, frankly, was understatement: Sanders was routed in Missouri, in Idaho and in Mississippi where, according to …
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“I’m a private person,” Hillary Clinton says in Hillary, the new four-part documentary series about her life that premieres Friday on Hulu. Director Nanette Burstein wanted to see if she could get her to open up. In January of 2018, Clinton’s camp came to Burnstein with 2,000 hours of a …
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On Monday, Super Tuesday eve, a cadre of independent Nashville artists will take the stage at the Basement East in support of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Dubbed “Concert for the Revolution to Elect Bernie Sanders,” the show is the brainchild of local musician Dean Moore and features performances by …
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“Mayor Bloomberg has a solid and strong and enthusiastic base of support,” Bernie Sanders said from the debate stage in South Carolina Tuesday night. “Problem is, they’re all billionaires.” It was a tidy one-liner (with the bonus that it happens to have a basis in reality: Jeff Bezos was among …
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Having reached the fifth Democratic debate of the 2020 primary cycle, habitual viewers risk coming away with that not-so-fresh feeling. They know that Bernie Sanders welcomes the rage of the billionaires, that Elizabeth Warren has big plans for the big ideas that Amy Klobuchar agrees with on principle but wants …
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