The Moderate Voice

Two weeks ago, in its “Medal of Honor Monday” feature, DoD highlighted the actions that earned Army Tech. 5th Grade John J. Pinder Jr. the Congressional Medal of Honor. Pinder was one of twelve service members who would be awarded the nation’s highest military honor for bravery in battle during what would become “the longest […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr says doctors found a dead worm in his brain. RFK Jr says he was suffering from severe memory loss and mental fogginess in 2010. Doctors initially believed it might be a tumor but in 2012, a doctor with New York-Presbyterian Hospital told him he thought it was a worm that had […]

Trump, Bashing Migrants, Likens Them to Hannibal Lecter, Movie Cannibal Donald Trump, at his rally in New Jersey, used an extended riff about the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs” to demonize migrants at the border. That was Michael Gold at The New York Times on Sunday, normalizing the unbelievable. The story isn’t that […]

Gangsters, Money and Murder: How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America’s Illegal Marijuana Market by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg, ProPublica, and Garrett Yalch and Clifton Adcock, The Frontier ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Fields of […]

Former President Donald Trump held a campaign rally in New Jersey yesterday which contained some campaign news. It also helped provide material for social media, comedians, pundits and Democrats when he praised fictional cannibalistic killer Hannibal Lecter, a celluloid villain icon portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lamb. Donald Trump on Saturday […]

After Decades of Research, We Know How to Get New People to the Polls. We Just Don’t Always Do by Jane Eisner Twenty years ago, I published Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy. The book grew out of a personal passion: Once my oldest child was able to cast a […]

Jason Kelce is sticking with his underdog brand as his post-NFL career takes off. Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Amy Lavin, Temple University and Sheri Lambert, Temple University Philly icon and former Eagles star Jason Kelce has continued to make headlines since he announced his retirement from the NFL on March 4, 2024. A few days after […]

IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million by Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Russ Buettner, The New York Times ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: The Secret IRS Files:Inside the Tax Records of […]

You know how well Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is going by the look on Donald Trump, Jr’s face. In an advertisement posted on Twitter, Junior looks like he is about to cry. Either that, or Junior was not quite sober when the advertisement was recorded. I will leave it to you to decide which […]

The day after a few news organizations reported that air and ocean temperatures had set new records, The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump told about two dozen oil executives he would slash oil regulations and open drilling on day one if they would just donate $1,000,000,000 to his campaign. You all are wealthy enough, […]