The popular Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) was compared negatively to both Sarah Palin and Donald Trump in an op-ed published Tuesday in the Washington Post by conservative columnist Max Boot. But there is simply no comparison between the occasional misstatements and inarftul language by progressives such as Ocasio-Cortez and the campaign of misinformation from people […]
The American Psychological Association has issued new guidelines designed to improve both the safety and mental health of men and boys. Many of the recommendations involve dismantling aspects of masculinity that inhibit wellness, which has conservatives up in arms that men are under attack. In the ensuing debate this week, conservative pundits, columnists, and religious […]
A plea for help combating deadly wildfires from West Coast governors was met with a tweet from President Donald Trump threatening to cut California off from federal disaster aid on Wednesday. On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D), and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), all called on Trump to double […]
Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller III, will leave the Justice Department once a new attorney general is confirmed, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday. Rosenstein’s pending departure throws the investigation into fresh peril just as Mueller and his team are reportedly edging closer to a final report that could implicate […]
Less than 12 hours after President Donald Trump addressed the nation about a manufactured “crisis” along the U.S.-Mexico border, his preferred morning news show, Fox & Friends, had already begun repeating his inaccurate, fear-mongering talking points with added dramatic effect. Host Ainsley Earhardt spoke directly to viewers during a segment of the show Wednesday morning, suggesting “those […]
On Tuesday night Trump pulled back from the brink. For now. After claiming last week that he could declare a national emergency and unilaterally authorize and fund the construction of a wall on the U.S./Mexico border, Trump used his prime-time address on Tuesday night to quietly back away from the idea. Instead of side-stepping Congress, […]
For more than a decade, New York activists have been trying to solidify abortion rights no matter what happens at the federal level — and this month, they just might do it. The New York legislature is likely to pass the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) in January after Democrats took control of the state Senate […]
President Trump on Tuesday night delivered an address to the nation, warning of a supposed “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border that only a wall could fix. Early rreports suggested Trump might use the address to declare a state of emergency at the border, though he avoided addressing that topic directly. Instead, in his address, broadcast […]
In a prime-time address Tuesday night, President Trump tried to scare Americans into pressuring Democratic Congress members to cough up $5.7 billion to build a border wall. “The president has chosen fear,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Cal.) said in a response to Trump’s speech. Indeed, Trump laid the blame for all sorts of mayhem […]
Despite making numerous baseless claims about voter fraud over the years, President Donald Trump has remained silent on the contested congressional race in North Carolina’s 9th district, where allegations of election fraud centering around a Republican operative have prevented the state from certifying results. But Mark Harris — the Republican candidate who was thought to […]
A court filing Tuesday in a case against former Trump campaign chair Paul J. Manafort Jr. accidentally revealed previously unknown contacts between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. The revelation came in a filing by Manafort’s legal team in response to allegations by prosecutors in November that he breached his plea deal in the D.C. case […]
In the run-up to President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night prime-time address, the White House argued that the president had to make a public case for federal funding to be allocated for the purpose of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. As of this writing, there’s no prepared text of his remarks. But if his past behavior […]
State legislators across the country are mounting a bipartisan effort to block President Donald Trump’s controversial offshore drilling efforts, introducing a series of bills intended to challenge the federal government’s embrace of expanding fossil fuel exploration offshore. The move coincides with national efforts in the House of Representatives to similarly oppose offshore drilling. On a […]
