Vaughn Stewart, a nominee for the Maryland House of Delegates endorsed by Democratic Socialists.
Shawn Fleek, a spokesperson for OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, which helped the state rewrite the law to lower the penalty for fare evasion.
What a woman yelled as New York City police officers aggressively pulled and yanked her 1-year-old child out of her arms so they could arrest her on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest for refusing to stand up at a government welfare office where she was renewing her child care benefits. There were no chairs available, so she sat on the floor in the corner.
Dan Kaufman, author of The Fall of Wisconsin, on the GOP legislature's lame-duck attempt to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, announcing he will not run for president in 2020.
Dennis Kane, a board trustee for Severance, Colo., which repealed the town's ban on snowball fights at the behest of a 9-year-old boy.
Oklahoma state Sen. Joseph Silk, a Republican who proposed the "Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act," which would order the state to ignore abortion rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court.