I’m gonna need you to help me with some extra WTFs here. But former Speaker Denny Hastert has been indicted on charges of ‘structuring’ a cash withdrawal of almost $1 million and lying about it to the FBI.
It’s going to be quite the irony if Hastert is the member of that leadership team who ends up doing time.
Hulu pulls episodes of Duggar mass-kid reality show as scandal spreads.
Scott Walker won three straight elections in four years. But the budgetary mess he created is now sinking his presidential ambitions.
Scott Walker is onboard with a new 20-week abortion ban for Wisconsin. No exceptions for rape or incest.
Texas open carry activist calls for arrest and execution of all Texas officeholders for voted against open carry law.
This is something I’ve been wondering about for a while. And it is something that is a subset of the point I made last month about the unique nature of the Democratic nomination process in 2016 – with Hillary Clinton so seemingly unchallengeable that the intra-party negotiation and jockeying which normally takes place between rival candidacies has shifted to different factions and constituencies contending over the terms and nature of their support for Clinton’s candidacy.
Here’s something I’ve noticed over the last few weeks: The DNC is sending out a lot of Bernie Sanders emails.
Elizabeth Green, CEO and editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat, a news site devoted to educational change, will chat with Prime members today in The Hive (sub req).
Green has years of experience in education reporting, having written for The New York Sun, New York Times Magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Last year, she published Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone). She will be answering questions about her book, the Common Core, teacher evaluations, and the opt-out movement.
Drop your questions here before or join us at 2:30 PM Eastern.
Here’s a fascinating look at a dimension of Wal-Mart you may not have thought about. Generally, we hear a lot about Wal-Mart driving down wages or running local retailers out of business. From the right, we hear paeans to Wal-Marts as engines of capitalism driving down prices for ordinary everyday products for tens of millions of Americans. Each is true in its way, two sides of the same economic coin. But there’s another reality. In many small towns throughout America today, Wal-Mart has become the de facto meeting place – open 24 hours a day – where all sorts of things happen beside just buying a TV or stocking up on dry goods. It’s replaced the mall, the town center, the drive-in, all the places where life happens, teenagers hang out or tailgate and drink, or people just meet up. This piece looks at the local Wal-Mart as the center of life in one Texas town.
Far-right Christianist rappers pen song dedicated to Ted Cruz and his battle for freedom.
Former GOP Rep. Tom Davis: GOP could have “a lot of pissed off people” if Supreme Court goes along with GOP’s latest Obamacare challenge.