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Meet the 45 Senators Who Blocked Background Checks President Obama said that “there was no coherent argument for why we wouldn’t do this. It came down to politics.” Dana Liebelson Apr. 17, 2013 8:25 PM An amendment proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to require background checks for commercial gun sales…
On Monday evening, charged crowds of New Yorkers made their way to Sheridan Square in the West Village to mourn the victims of the terrorist attack at the Orlando nightclub Pulse. Before celebrities and politicians got up to the mic, and smartphones were held high to create constellations of light behind the podium, the crowd…
In May, two teenagers posted a photo on social media — she in a long, red dress with golden embellishments that reflected the color of her long curls; he in a suit with a matching red tie. “He cleans up good, huh?” she wrote beneath the photo. Then: “We had a really great night.” He made it his…
Photo John Nadler feels the full weight of his status as America’s loneliest supporter of Donald J. Trump: Acquaintances will not look him in the eye. Credit Richard Perry/The New York Times CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — First came the grimaces — the disbelieving eyes trained upon his shirt, his signs, his car window stickers broadcasting a…
For weeks, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been touting his “youge!” fanbase with Mexicans, women, a slew of other minorities — often times alienating them with the same breath. On Wednesday, he added “the gays” to his list. On a campaign stop in Atlanta, Trump attempted to frame this past weekend’s horrific shooting in…
About a thousand people gathered in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. It was a candlelight vigil, the borough rallying in solidarity with the LGBT community, and against what’s at this point simply being called hate. Near the impromptu stage, hand-drawn on white poster board, a sign read “Love conquers hate.” After the…
In the wake of the horrific shooting in Orlando that left 50 dead, a political struggle is forming on whether to define this act as an anti-gay crime or an act of radical Islamic terrorism. The answer, it’s quickly starting to seem, is both of these, and more. A picture is quickly starting to form…
A marathon Democratic filibuster in the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre came to an end in the US Senate on Thursday morning after Republicans apparently agreed to hold votes on tighter gun control measures. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, led the filibuster which lasted for more than 14 hours along with several colleagues. In…
Murphy speaks on the Senate floor.Screenshot/C-SPAN2 Update, 8:15 a.m.: Murphy ended his filibuster at 2:11 a.m., meaning that it lasted for 14 hours and 50 minutes, and has announced that Senate Republicans have agreed to hold votes on universal-background-check and terror-watch-list legislation. He ended his remarks by telling the story of six-year-old Sandy Hook…
With Donald Trump there is always both higher and lower to go. Despite his constant assertions to the contrary, Trump is doing badly in the polls. With the extensive coverage of his campaign and the seemingly bottomless depths of pandering crassness he has sunk to, it’s easy to despair that Trump’s view of the world…