Larry Kudlow is President Donald Trump’s choice to replace Gary Cohn as director of the National Economic Council (NEC). Cohn spent over 25 years at Goldman Sachs, and was president and COO for ten years before he joined the Trump administration. Past NEC directors have had law degrees from Yale or Harvard or Cornell, MBAs […]
As thousands of students across the country rallied in support of gun control in a national “walkout” this week, House lawmakers voted to pass a bill aimed at curbing violence in schools. The measure notably contains zero gun-related provisions. The House voted 407-10 on Wednesday to pass the STOP School Violence Act, which would provide schools […]
As thousands of students across the country rallied in support of gun control in a national “walkout” this week, House lawmakers voted to pass a bill aimed at curbing violence in schools. The measure notably contains zero gun-related provisions. The House voted 407-10 on Wednesday to pass the STOP School Violence Act, which would provide schools […]
The Texas legislature only convenes in odd-number years, but lawmakers are still finding other ways to debate the anti-trans legislation that failed to pass last year known as SB6. A new report out of the Texas House Select Committee on Economic Competitiveness skewers the so-called “bathroom bill” even as conservatives seem poised to resurrect it in 2019. […]
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) is currently defending his state’s documentary proof of citizenship law in federal court, arguing that the law is necessary because of the substantial number of noncitizens registering to vote. But if he doesn’t succeed, he has already prepared what he is calling a “contingency plan.” The text of […]
During a Fox News interview on Wednesday, National Republican Congressional Committee chair Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) suggested that some sort of voter fraud played a role in Democrat Conor Lamb’s likely victory over Republican Rick Saccone in a special election in a red district of southwestern Pennsylvania — one that President Trump won by nearly 20 […]
Students from San Leandro High School in San Leandro, California and Righetti High School in Santa Maria, California were unable to participate in the nationwide school walkouts to protest gun violence due to lockdowns at their respective schools. According to a representative for the Santa Maria Joint Unified High School District Righetti High School was […]
The nation’s most powerful gun lobbying group spent much of National School Walkout Day doing what it does best: trolling. During the day on Wednesday, students across the country walked out of their schools to protest gun violence and call for increased gun control, spurred on by last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida that […]
President Donald Trump has officially named CNBC host Larry Kudlow as the new director of the National Economic Council, adding yet another climate science denier to the White House. Kudlow, who replaces Gary Cohn after the latter resigned over Trump’s steel tariffs, has for years used his position as a CNBC host to spread misinformation […]
On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced a round of firings and promotions among his administration’s top officials. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who had spent months being dogged by rumors of his ever-imminent demise, finally got the axe. CIA Director Mike Pompeo was plucked by Trump’s to shuffle into Tillerson’s seat. And Gina Haspel, a longtime […]
In its latest budget plan, the Trump administration was once again “derelict” in proposing cuts to clean energy research, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Wednesday in a speech at a renewable energy policy forum sponsored by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The United States […]
San Francisco Police Department officials quietly fired a rookie cop on Friday, three months after he shot and killed a carjacking suspect from the passenger seat of a police vehicle on his fourth day on the job. Officer Chris Samayoa killed 42-year-old Keita O’Neil with a single shot on December 1, after O’Neil had allegedly […]
Renowned physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking died Wednesday morning in his Cambridge, England home at the age of 76. Hawking had become an iconic figure because of his scientific brilliance, his popular writings, and the grace and humor with which he waged a multi-decade fight against ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular disease also known […]
Prior to Tuesday’s special election, Republicans pilloried Pennsylvania Democrat Conor Lamb for his support for abortion rights. In late February, the Republican National Committee noted his opposition to a 20-week abortion ban and called him “drastically out of touch with values of southwest Pennsylvania.” Lamb now appears to have defeated Republican Rick Saccone to fill […]
Two years ago, ThinkProgress named the Traditionalist Worker Party head Matthew Heimbach the “most important white supremacist of 2016.” Where Heimbach may once have been a force, however, he’s now rapidly approaching farce. The previously ascendant leader was arrested Tuesday, following a scuffle relating to an affair with his landlord — who also happened to […]
Tucker Carlson used his prime-time spot on national TV this week to defend a group of white nationalists who believed in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and who had previously tried to stop humanitarian ships from rescuing drowning migrants. Noted Twitter troll Brittany Pettibone and her boyfriend, Austrian far-right activist Martin Sellner, were barred from entering […]
Lawmakers and activists slammed a federal appeals court ruling allowing a hardline anti-immigration law to take effect in Texas. A three-judge panel declared Tuesday evening that Senate Bill 4 (SB4), a law targeting so-called sanctuary cities, can go forward, seven months after it was meant to take effect. The United States Court of Appeals for […]
While many Republican strategists and conservative pundits struggled to make sense of how a Democrat could have been so successful in Pennsylvania’s 18th district on Tuesday, voters sent a clear message: Health care is a priority. Election night exit polling by Public Policy Polling found that among PA-18 voters who said health care was the […]
Students across the nation protested gun violence on Wednesday by walking out of their schools for a 17-minute protest. That 17 minutes represents the 17 people who died in a February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students left their schools and universities at 10 a.m. in their local time zones as […]
A federal judge in Maryland ruled this week in favor of a transgender student’s right to access the locker rooms at his high school in the Talbot County School District. In doing so, he dismantled the school’s arguments that accommodating the student would somehow encroach upon his classmates’ “privacy.” Max Brennan (identified as M.A.B. in […]
The family of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich has filed a lawsuit against Fox News for pushing a conspiracy theory about the circumstances surrounding their son’s death, ABC News reported on Tuesday night. “No parent should ever have to live through what we have been forced to endure,” Rich’s parents, Joel and Mary Rich, […]
Emails obtained by watchdog group American Oversight appear to catch the Department of Housing and Urban Development in a lie over Secretary Ben Carson’s involvement in the planned purchase of a $31,000 dining set for a dining room in his office. In a March 1 statement, Carson said that he was “shocked” by the dining […]
On Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. local time, for a 17-minute stretch sandwiched between two episodes of Catfish: The TV Show, MTV will suspend its programming. So, too, will Viacom’s other networks, including Comedy Central and BET, which will switch to coverage of the National Student Walkout over gun violence. Instead of their regularly scheduled broadcasts, the […]
The British government expelled 23 Russian diplomats on Wednesday, after the Kremlin refused to explain why a deadly, Russian-made nerve agent was used to poison former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. On Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May told Parliament that it was “highly likely” that Russia was to blame for the attack in […]
The British government expelled 23 Russian diplomats on Wednesday, after the Kremlin refused to explain why a deadly, Russian-made nerve agent was used to poison former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. On Monday, Theresa May told Parliament that it was “highly likely” that Russia was to blame for the attack in the town […]
