When the U.S. government presents its case in court against former President Donald J. Trump, the best way for voters to hear each side’s version of the truth is to allow millions of Americans into the room where it...
When you’re 37 percentage points behind the frontrunner, what else can you do but borrow some of his best lines? “Lock her up” was the chilling anti-Hillary Clinton mantra that took over Donald Trump rallies in 2016, although once...
If anybody wondered whether Casey DeSantis shared her husband’s distaste for anything deemed “woke,” there’s no more wondering. The first lady of Florida delivered a hard-right video attacking LGBTQ and trans rights, presenting herself as the lead Mama of...
Marking the first anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, first-year Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) issued a far-reaching executive order that strips the state’s fifteen local county attorneys of their authority to prosecute abortion related cases. Turns...
Uneventful, that’s how the arraignment of an ex-president went down in Miami Tuesday afternoon. And the second-most important person involved with the case wasn’t even there. That would be Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who has been controversial...
A school district in Utah pulled the Bible from some of its libraries because of vulgarity and violence and now some parents want the Book of Mormon reviewed, taking the argument from the sublime to the ridiculous in a...
It’s always darkest just before dawn, a proverb that says when times are at their worst they will soon get better. Current events bear that out. The GOP-led Texas legislature voted to impeach the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton...
In singling out federal programs for the deepest cuts during the haggling over raising the debt ceiling, the GOP is tapping into the myth that those who rely on public assistance are undeserving and can’t be trusted to responsibly...
They call themselves “Sister Senators” and together, crossing party lines, they’re the only thing stopping the male-dominated South Carolina legislature from passing an abortion ban. The five women include three Republicans who identify as pro-life, plus a Democrat and...
Kudos to Chief Justice John Roberts for corralling the three Trump-nominated pro-life justices to leave the abortion pill alone for now, saving the GOP from another Roe-like disaster. Eighty percent of voters don’t like the Dobbs decision that ended...