Buzz over 'Rebound COVID' casts doubt on anti-viral treatments, but that's not what the data shows

In the last three weeks, Dr. Anthony Fauci tested positive for COVID-19 using an at-home test after experiencing mild symptoms. Within the next...

The SNCC Freedom Singers: Songs of strength and courage that mobilized people to vote

The Fourth of July holiday has never symbolized freedom for me, since my ancestors remained enslaved on July 4, 1776. Every year I revisit the...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Short stack

We begin today with Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post writing about the institutional problems of the Secret Service in light of the new...

Immigrant turned over to ICE after being granted parole: 'He has paid his dues. When is it enough?'

Salesh Prasad was set to return back home after serving nearly three decades in prison. He had been granted release by a parole board, which...

After 10 years of DACA, advocates want permanent protections for immigrant youth

This article was originally published at Prism On June 15, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program officially turned 10. The...

Retiring Sen. Toomey: Trump 'disqualified himself' and GOP will have 'stronger candidate' in 2024

Why is it that, with a few notable exceptions, prominent Republicans almost always wait until they’re on their way out the door to slag off...

Nuts & Bolts—Inside a Democratic campaign: Precinct committee races

How often have you heard Harry S. Truman’s phrase: “The most important job I ever held was that of precinct committeeman”? If you are involved...

Big data is making so-called 'crisis pregnancy centers' more dangerous than ever

So-called “crisis pregnancy centers”—organizations that try to lure people in by implying they provide medical care, only to pressure and...

Our current system of policing doesn’t work. It’s beyond time to reimagine it

We need more effective measures to try and solve the symptoms of crime. Throwing more police at the situation won’t do anything but punish more...

The Downballot: What Dems should do about Dobbs + Pennsylvania deep dive, w/Adam Bonin (transcript)

How could we not discuss the Supreme Court's evisceration of abortion rights on this week's episode of The Downballot? Co-hosts David Nir and David...

News Roundup: Evidence of Trump's Jan. 6 fury; Supreme Court ruling upends American life

After witness Cassidy Hutchinson described the state of the White House before and during the Jan. 6, 2021 coup attempt, Republicans rushed to...

Ukraine update: Russia's big counterattack at Kharkiv has so far come to nothing

At the beginning of May, Russian forces still occupied the ring of towns and villages just outside Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv. From...

Kansas' Aug. 2 special election is a first test of abortion rights. We need to get this right

On Aug. 2, Kansas will hold a special election to determine the future of abortion rights within the state. Kansas has managed to keep attempts...

Fascism alert: Florida's new teacher training program promotes far-right Christian nationalism

Donald Trump may have stumbled from narcissism to fascism as something of an accident, but it's Republican presidential aspirant and Florida Gov....

Connect! Unite! Act! The Supreme Court and Republicans want to make voting pointless

Every election I attend, I leave the office with a nice sticker that says “I Voted!”, a reminder that I participated in the process. There were a...

For the love of books

Writing about a love of reading can feel like preaching to the choir. After all, most people who sit down to read such a thing (probably) like...

Researchers say flu shot connected to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease

One of the many tragic turns the politicization of COVID-19 and our country’s response to it has been the deleterious effect it has had on public...

Ukraine update: Kherson news blackout lifts just enough to hint at Ukrainian progress

During World War II, the folks back home could read about the progress of the conflict in daily papers, listen to the voices of journalists in...

Abbreviated pundit roundup: Eyes on the prize

Jeffrey C Isaac/Bulwark: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Defeating Trumpism Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony centered on the malevolent conduct of...

San Antonio survivors must be allowed to apply for certain visas available to victims, groups say

More than 100 organizations are urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to not deport survivors of the San Antonio tragedy that took the...

CNN: Secret Service accounts of limo incident 'align with significant parts' of Hutchinson's version

Shortly after former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson let the world know what most of us had already come to accept—i.e., that Donald Trump...

A cold drink for a crisis in 10 easy steps

This weekend, if you’re milling about the kitchen or backyard as America celebrates its Independence Day and you find yourself feeling, well, a...

Daily Space: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

It’s going to be hard to go very far with a regular series featuring objects in deep space without mentioning Charles Messier. Because between...

Joe Manchin has a choice: Help West Virginia and Biden, or McConnell

Here’s the next big test for Sen. Joe Manchin. Will he help Mitch McConnell derail the Senate Democratic majority and the Biden presidency? Will...

House Democrats go on offense, attacking GOP extremism on abortion, Jan. 6

The House Democratic campaign arm is charting a course to hold Democrats' slim majority in the lower chamber by targeting extremist Republicans on...

SCOTUS abortion ruling results in spike in requests in red states for vasectomies, tubal ligations

Doctors in red states are reporting a huge spike in demand for vasectomies and tubal ligations as Americans react to the Supreme Court’s decision...

McConnell takes Biden presidency hostage

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is proving yet again that there’s no such thing as bipartisan wins, for anyone. A year ago, the Senate passed...

Mississippi House Speaker pushes for abortion law with no exceptions for incest and rape survivors

With the official decision by the six radical theocratic clerics on the Supreme Court to take away reproductive rights, so-called “trigger” laws...

Ukraine update: Lysychansk played its part and it's time for Ukraine to leave … for now

Perched on high ground across the river from the larger city of Severodonetsk, the town of Lysychansk has played a critical role over the last two...

Highlights from The Downballot: Democrats need a 'real plan' to codify Roe, and Pennsylvania updates

This week on The Downballot, the threat from the Supreme Court's leaked ruling last month to overturn Roe v. Wade became a reality. Their final...

Mark Meadows connected to messages attempting to intimidate Cassidy Hutchinson before her testimony

When Cassidy Hutchinson appeared before the House select committee on Jan. 6 to testify to what she had seen during the final days of the Trump...

Clarence Thomas believes that sex is only for making babies and he's ready to enforce it through law

When the court destroyed a human right that had been a central part of U.S. law for almost 50 years, that wasn’t enough for Justice Clarence...

Republican wants guy who ridiculed public school teachers to set up 100 charter schools in his state

Local outlet NewsChannel 5 has obtained pretty damning hidden camera video from a private reception with Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee....

Cartoon: The power of reactionary thinking

New York steps up on abortion, guns to provide lesson for national Democrats

The state of New York is not taking the U.S. Supreme Court extremists’ regressive rulings lying down, and they’re providing a good template...

Advocates applaud Remain in Mexico ruling, urge president to end policy 'once and for all'

Advocates welcomed the Supreme Court’s surprising decision in Biden v. Texas  on Thursday, which ruled 5-4 that the president acted lawfully in...

Rather than dismiss Ocasio-Cortez’s ideas to save our democracy, Democrats should listen

The Supreme Court, filled with truly mediocre-minded wannabe conservative Christian clerics, has spent this last session of the court taking away...

Children's book removed from Pride Month display in library after one dad complained

If Republicans are hellbent on “protecting” children from one thing, it’s queer people. Whether that means isolating trans folks from bathrooms...

Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

Late Night Snark: Cassidy vs. Orange Madman Edition  "The most damning part of [her] testimony was when Cassidy Hutchinson revealed that when...

Don't miss the point: Unpacking what's critical in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony to Jan. 6 probe

Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony was an arguable watershed moment for the Jan. 6 committee’s probe into the coup that investigators say former...

Midterm generic ballot moves toward Democrats as independents move away from Republicans

As the seismic Supreme Court ruling stripping Americans of abortion rights ripples through the country, multiple polls are now seeing movement...

News Roundup: The Supreme Court takes away most everyone's rights and our clean air

It is Friday times. The week has been filled with highlights and lowlights, and all of those lights concern an attack on our centuries-old...

Cartoon: Pre-born patriots

The rulings are coming fast and furious from the now unabashedly Trumpian U.S. Supreme Court. With the no-holds-barred decision to completely chuck...

Biden administration sued over onshore leases as offshore lease plan expires

At the behest of a federal judge, the Biden administration moved forward with a limited amount of onshore oil and gas lease auctions on Wednesday...

Abbreviated pundit roundup: The Nine and the shadow growing in America

LA Times: Meadows brought fraud allegation to Barr the day after 2020 election, records show The communications show how quickly Meadows moved to...

'Not Christianity' begins trending on Twitter in response to Supreme Court's perverse rulings

The Supreme Court is stocked with what many politely refer to as “conservative Christians.” The need to distinguish “conservative...

Supreme Court will complete its judicial coup next session unless Congress, White House stop it

Here’s just a sliver of what the Supreme Court did in the past two weeks of decisions. It doesn’t even count the atrocities it  rolled out...

How do we know marriage equality is at risk? Because right-wing propagandists are claiming it's safe

Media Matter for America notes that leading up to the 2020 confirmation of then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, Fox News propagandist Sean...

Republicans plotting laws that will pay bounties on those who leave red states to obtain abortion

Now that the Supreme Court has removed the right to obtain an abortion and handed the control of wombs over to state politicians, conservatives...

Supreme Court agrees to hear case that could shatter democracy in any state with a GOP legislature

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear North Carolina Republicans’ appeal in a redistricting case that could have catastrophic...

Caribbean Matters: Immigration has an impact on those left behind. Meet the 'barrel children'

People of the Caribbean diaspora, whether in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, or even further afield, have a long history of...

Conservative Washington Examiner on Hutchinson testimony: 'Trump is a disgrace'

Donald Trump is like an old Chucky doll you threw in a dumpster years ago while packing for a move across the country—and then one day, out of...

After sabotaging the Supreme Court's reputation, McConnell calls Biden a danger to the court

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has often bragged about singlehandedly blocking consideration of Obama Supreme Court pick...

Damn the Constitution, full speed ahead … toward a nation that is literally ungovernable

When Donald Trump led an armed mob to the steps of the Capitol and urged them into making an assault on the electoral process, his efforts failed...

Proud Boys prance into public library and ruin yet another book event for kids

Conservatives have made it clear they’re more than happy to demonize LGBTQ people—including youth—if it means getting their voter base hyped up...

White House and Democrats start to key in on midterm abortion strategy

President Joe Biden stepped up his response Thursday to the Supreme Court's radical ruling overturning a half century of a constitutional right to...

'It is the right thing to do': Board votes to return Bruce's Beach land stripped from Black family

A California county has decided to do what activists are calling on cities throughout the country to prioritize, and that is to return land stolen...

Biden makes deal with McConnell on anti-abortion judicial nominee who was too corrupt for Trump

President Joe Biden called for filibuster reform Thursday in order to restore abortion rights. That’s great. What’s not great is...

San Antonio semi-truck victims sought to help sick loved ones, reunite with family

While officials have said it could possibly take weeks to identify all 53 victims from this past week’s horrific tragedy in San Antonio, some are...

Florida judge to block state's 15-week abortion ban

The Leon County Court in Florida has indicated it intends to block a law banning abortions after 15 weeks. Planned Parenthood’s case against the...

Pat Cipollone's chance to serve the country—not Trump—is now, Jan. 6 probe demands in subpoena

Pat Cipollone had what one former member of the Justice Department described last week to the Jan. 6 committee as “an impossible job” serving the...

Pew's data on trans rights is discouraging but we can't give up the fight for full equality

Republicans have made trans rights an absolute battle cry in an effort to fire up their voter base and stoke hatred against an already vulnerable...

Cartoon: Death on the highway

Congratulations, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Thursday, making history as the first Black woman to serve on...

Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

I Feel Pretty and Witty and… A few final words as we say farewell to Pride Month: “As I said in my State of the Union Address—especially to...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Think tank

We start today with Ariane de Vogue of CNN writing that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will become Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at...

Biden announces support for a filibuster carve out to restore abortion rights, right to privacy

President Joe Biden gave his strongest response yet to the U.S. Supreme Court’s radical decision to end federal abortion protections Thursday,...

Supreme Court rules Biden administration lawfully ended anti-asylum Remain in Mexico policy

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided in favor of the president in Biden v. Texas, ruling that his administration lawfully acted in attempting to...

Supreme Court rules in favor of polluters in West Virginia v. EPA case

Yet another decision we all saw coming will now limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to do its job. In a 6-3 ruling, the...

News roundup: Supreme Court shreds administrative governance, sets sights on democracy itself

The Supreme Court continued to dismantle the very foundations of civil rights and government with a new ruling today claiming that government...

While decrying the Supreme Six's EPA ruling, give Kagan, Breyer,and Sotomayor hugs for their dissent

Plenty of people have already expressed their sad and righteous fury at the totally expected Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. EPA, the...

Unserved 1955 warrant for white woman accused in Emmett Till's kidnapping discovered

An unserved warrant from 1955 may give prosecutors what they need to prosecute the white woman, now in her 80s, whose lie is said to have...

Rep. Zoe Lofgren drops new details hinting at Big Lie financial crimes and witness tampering

On Tuesday, the Jan. 6 committee hearing featured testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ aide. It was...

Supreme Court hits voting rights again, proving 'voting harder' isn't enough for Democrats

There’s an inherent flaw in the emerging Democratic leadership’s strategy to the end of federal protections for abortion, to put the onus for...

The net is tightening around John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark as DOJ closes in on heart of Jan. 6 plot

Last week, federal agents seized a cell phone belonging to former Trump attorney John Eastman. Eastman was the author of the memo creating the “...

Advocates have a July 11 deadline to get an abortion rights measure on the Michigan ballot

A key abortion rights battle is going on in Michigan, where a court has blocked a 1931 abortion ban from going into effect and Democratic Gov....

Migrant deaths in San Antonio highlight a growing crisis

This story was originally published at Prism. The historic migrant death crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border continues to grow. On Monday evening, 46...

Missouri health system reverses halt on providing emergency contraception

Update: The hospital system announced it is reversing its position from earlier today, and will in fact provide emergency contraception to patients...

Republicans either believe in peaceful transfer of power or they don't. All should be forced to say

Stuffed into the middle of the transfixing Jan. 6 testimony Tuesday from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson were several little-noticed...

North Carolina workers file lawsuit after being fired for not attending Christian prayer meetings

On Monday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of two employees at North Carolina company Aurora Pro...

Ouch. Even Fox's talking knuckleheads looked stunned by Cassidy Hutchinson's Jan. 6 testimony

Well, that was some testimony, huh? Where does Trump go from here, other than further down the road to ignominy? Or maybe he can hop a ride to...

News Roundup: Republicans dodge news Trump coordinated violence; Ginni Thomas has second thoughts

Testimony that marked both Donald Trump and Mark Meadows as being aware that the crowd Trump had assembled to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021...

Cartoon: Mark of the Beast

Republican White House insider Cassidy Hutchinson testified about many shocking things, not least the scene inside The Beast during the January 6...

Randy Cox is paralyzed after police allow him to ride in van without seatbelt

A Black man arrested on gun possession charges ended up paralyzed and is now fighting for his life in New Haven, Connecticut, civil rights attorney...

Tragic migrant deaths are nothing but political fodder for despicable Greg Abbott

The deceased migrants who were sprinkled with steak seasoning and abandoned in a sweltering hot semi-truck in San Antonio, Texas, may not be...

In public policy win, California to open health care to previously excluded undocumented residents

Hundreds of thousands more Californians will now be insured, after Governor Gavin Newsom and state leaders reached a budget agreement this...