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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has officially been booted from the House Freedom Caucus for not being far-right enough.

It’s been a little more than a week since we reported on an inquiry purporting to be from a gay couple to a web designer who, seeking to deny service to same-sex couples, brought a case to the Supreme Court. Both the plaintiff in the 303 Creative v. Elenis case, Lorie Smith, and her attorneys, the Christian nationalist law project Alliance Defending Freedom, or ADF, had for years claimed this request seeking a wedding website was genuine. In a 10-minute phone call I made last week to a straight... Читать дальше...

What’s difficult about living through history is you often don’t know the magnitude of it all until it’s over. But at this rate, things being “over” might mean us not being around to look back at it at all.

Nearly 200 people from across the country who were charged for participating in the January 6 riot have said they were responding to a callout by former President Donald Trump.

Congressman George Santos has gotten all the attention for being the liar extraordinaire of New York’s political scene, but Mayor Eric Adams is giving him a run for his money.

It’s Hunter’s. It’s Jack Smith’s. It’s laced with fentanyl. It’s something else entirely.

Last weekend, Ron DeSantis’s rapid response team shared an insane manospheric video going after twice-impeached and twice-indicted former President Donald Trump for his previous expressions of support for the LGBTQ community—proudly contrasting that record with DeSantis’s own relentless crusade against LGBTQ people in his home state.

The Republican Party just can’t make up its mind about the $1.5 trillion budget deficit.

Ron DeSantis’s recent campaign ad deservedly got attention for being both maniacally anti-LGBTQ and, as Pete Buttigieg deftly observed, undeniably homoerotic. It includes film clips of Brad Pitt as the ancient Greek hero Achilles, “who, in the Iliad,” my colleague Prem Thakker observed on Monday, “has been interpreted to have gone on a vengeful rampage after the death of his gay lover, Patroclus.” Indeed, one wonders whether the Yale- and Harvard-educated DeSantis or his campaign team know the... Читать дальше...

Last week, the U.S. government tiptoed a little closer to the world of science fiction. In a 44-page report it seemed at pains to say was not its own idea, the White House laid out a five-year research plan to explore the development and eventual deployment of solar radiation management, or SRM, technology—the idea of blocking out the sun to slow down climate change.

Nearly two decades after his death—and more than 30 years after his presidency—Ronald Reagan still plays a prominent role in the pageant of American politics: He is the hallowed cipher for a “strong” foreign policy. Politicians can invoke the fortieth president’s name to grant an imprimatur of “greatness” to current policy positions, even if they carry only a tenuous connection to the views of the man himself. Though Donald Trump’s ascendancy may have somewhat diminished Reagan’s hold on the Republican Party... Читать дальше...

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Wednesday partially vetoed the new state budget—a move that actually guarantees funding increases for public schools for the next four centuries.