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GOLD COAST, Australia — The 21st edition of the “Friendly Games” are officially underway, but this year’s event — which features the official motto, Share the Dream — could also be dubbed the “Progressive Games.” For the first time at a Commonwealth Games, men and women will compete for the same amount of medals. That’s not […]
Costa Rica’s President-elect Carlos Alvarado Quesada ran up a bigger-than-expected margin of victory in Sunday’s runoff election. The 38-year-old former minister in the outgoing government is now set to join French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as democratically elected heads of state before turning 40. Alvarado Quesada said he decided […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski narrowly managed to beat back his progressive challenger in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday with 50.9% of the vote. Marie Newman, a first-time candidate, campaigned against Lipinski’s conservative social views and opposition to Obamacare, positions she argued were out of step with those of his constituents. Lipinski’s […]
Always On, a livestream of electronic music from female, transgender, and non-binary artists, will be running for the next two days. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a271e3c718f5c5e6ece7183/master/pass/SuzannaCiani-653151986.jpg Feed: All Latest
Courtesy of Cathie Berrey-Green/BG Productions Photos & Video Civil-rights attorney Larry Krasner won the race for Philadelphia’s district attorney on in a blowout. Krasner’s big victory can be traced to massive canvassing and get-out-the-vote operations by local activists and organizers. Many of Philadelphia’s progressive organizations formed a coalition after the election of President Donald Trump […]
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This is a good time to talk politics, Scott Burns says, because he finally feels free to speak his mind. “Working with 1,000 government clients, I kept my mouth shut,” the founder of GovDelivery says with a laugh. The tech company handles digital communications for local, state and federal governments, most famously driving millions to […]
A state assemblyman campaigning as a true progressive is up against a city official who distinguishes himself as “not a professional politician,” as the two Democrats contest a vacant US House seat in a special election in California tonight. Voters are to choose a new member of the US House of Representatives in California’s 34th […]
“WE CAN’T restore our civilisation with somebody else’s babies.” Steve King, a Republican congressman from Iowa, could hardly have been clearer in his meaning in a tweet this week supporting Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician with anti-immigrant views. Across the rich world, those of a similar mind have been emboldened by a nativist turn in […]
