PBS Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

Sanders is far from the only prominent Democrat who disagrees with the Obama administration’s deportation of immigrants.

Bernie Sanders said that if necessary, he would use executive action to create a path to citizenship. If so, he’d follow a long line of presidents — President Obama included — who have used executive action on immigration.

The story about life expectancy for middle-age white people isn’t as simple as it’s being presented here. As Andrew Gelman explained at Slate, the finding that life expectancy is dropping for these Americans “resonated with both left and right,” but it may be a statistical artifact arising from the way that age categories are classified.