State senator charged with embezzlement and fraud
“Anyone who seeks to take advantage of government programs will be vigorously investigated by the FBI, regardless of who they are or any position they hold.”
To Joe Biden, Trump’s potential successor Mike Pence “is a decent guy”
When Joe Biden told an audience that Mike Pence “is a decent guy,” Pence had already been vice president for more than...
‘Huge victory’ for grassroots climate campaigners as NY lawmakers reach deal on sweeping climate...
Grassroots climate campaigners in New York applauded on Monday after state lawmakers reached a deal on sweeping climate legislation, paving the way for the...
Until comeuppance smacks Trumpist scofflaws, brace for more lying, cheating & demagoguery
Why enter elections when starting insurrections are so much easier? Why “patronize” elections that are “corrupt” (thus unwinnable) from beginning to end?
Shockwave through the Democratic Party: Minnesota’s ‘uncommitted’ vote challenges Biden’s Middle East stance
Does this groundswell of dissent, stemming from a coalition of progressives and younger voters, highlighting deep fractures within the Democratic base over the administration's approach to the Israel-Gaza conflict?
Elizabeth Warren blocks Trump’s pick for CFPB Director until release of Zero-Tolerance documents
“I urge my colleagues in the Senate to reject this highly cynical nomination.”
Justice Department Tells North Carolina To Abandon Its Anti-LGBT Bathroom Bill — Or Else
HB2 violates federal law, and the federal government won't let it stand.
If Trump Had Been at Gettysburg in 1863
On Saturday, Donald Trump made a speech in Gettysburg that was nothing like President Abraham Lincoln's revered one. Michael Winship imagines the speech Trump might have delivered in Lincoln's day.
Inflated by meager advances, the deluded still cling to the ‘Trump Party of Stable...
Do Trumpers have to sustain their dignity with loyalty not only to a naked emperor but one about to be run out of town on a rail?
Senate VAWA bill ‘undercuts tribal sovereignty’
“Placing paternalistic restrictions on tribal courts in the name of 'due process' is nothing more than a disguise for prejudice."