Articles Written By: David Weigel

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Montana governor, legislators condemn plans for white-nationalist march

Montana governor, legislators condemn plans for white-nationalist march

December 27, 2016

Montana's top elected officials in both parties have denounced plans for a white-nationalist march in Whitefish, the town that's become home to alt-right movement writer and activist Richard Spencer. It's the latest escalation in a controversy that started when Spencer's mother, who recently opened a business in Whitefish, began getting pressure to denounce her son's beliefs […]
Professor keeps job after ‘white genocide’ tweet, but conservative media continues to go after liberal targets

Professor keeps job after ‘white genocide’ tweet, but conservative media continues to go after liberal targets

December 27, 2016

On Christmas Eve, while most Americans were off the clock and celebrating, George Ciccariello-Maher took a short break to check Twitter. Remarkably, a three-day old tweet from State Farm, which showed a black man proposing marriage to a white woman, was still generating angry blowback from white supremacists. Who said yes?💍Cheers to the newly engaged […]

DNC chair candidates race into North Carolina fight

December 16, 2016
The leading candidates to lead the Democratic National Committee in 2017 both leapt into the fray over North Carolina’s Republican legislature, which has passed two bills designed to devolve power away from Governor-elect Roy Cooper, a Democrat. In an afternoon conference call, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) described the GOP push as a coup and called for […]

Labor Secretary Tom Perez officially launches DNC bid

December 15, 2016
Labor Secretary Tom Perez joined the race to lead the Democratic National Committee today, joining voting members of the DNC on a conference call to argue that his executive experience and organizing background made him uniquely qualified. "The Democratic Party is a complex organization," Perez said. "We had a lot of experience in building one […]

House conservatives want Trump to undo regulations on climate, FDA, Uber

December 15, 2016
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the incoming chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, used a meeting with Donald Trump to deliver a list of 232 regulations that the incoming president could repeal immediately. “We felt like it was important to put together a real working document,” Meadows told CNN. The list, shared by Meadows’s office, […]

Clinton, Trump and the widest transparency gap in campaign history

November 9, 2016
The weekend before polls closed, the Russian-funded network RT ran an interview between the pedigreed left-wing journalist John Pilger and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The subject: What Assange had revealed by publishing emails hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The context: Assange, obviously, was revealing secrets about the next president of the United States. […]
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