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New York Representative George Santos etched his name into history on Friday by becoming the twenty-first person to be expelled from the House of...
Representative George Santos was officially expelled from Congress on Friday, making him only the sixth member ever given the boot. The House voted...
At this point, the shocking thing about House Speaker Mike Johnson is not his extremist views but how brazenly he’s flaunted them. Here’s the...
A lot of people are talking about the long piece Robert Kagan wrote in The Washington Post on Thursday about how, as the headline put it, “A...
If, as Senator Marco Rubio said last year, “GOP voters are working-class Americans, and they are changing the party,” the House Education and...
The 60-second TV spot begins with a series of brief shots: a lobster boat setting out just after dawn, a man exiting a taxi at a crowded downtown...
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s honeymoon period lasted about as long as an actual honeymoon: a few weeks, at best. Now that Congress has punted its...
Former Representative George Santos was expelled from the House on Friday, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote. Republicans were divided on whether...
Social Security is generally considered politically untouchable, but lawmakers have been fretting about its future for months. In March, the...
Thursday night’s biggest loser was Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who spent the better part of Fox’s “Great Red vs. Blue State” publicity...
Well, it’s official: 2023 was the hottest year on record, but cheer up, it will likely pale in comparison to the heat waves in years to come,...
“Public!” yelled Tefa Galvis, a tall, smiling organizer with New York City Democratic Socialists of America-Ecosocialists. “Power!” answered...
I was disappointed when news broke Tuesday that Pope Francis was canceling his appearance at the U.N. climate conference this week due to illness....
What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of affairs, except of...
With three committees they control on the case, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives is officially engaged in a serious inquiry...
Buckingham Palace may take legal action after the translation of a book about the royal family accidentally disclosed that King Charles and...
Robert Zimmerman remembers the frustration all too well. He kept telling people that the district wasn’t as Democratic as they assumed. He kept...
Happy weekend to everyone! Billionaire Mark Cuban has spared the nation from another massive headache, announcing that he has “no plans” to run...
A New York appeals court on Thursday reinstated the gag order in Donald Trump’s business fraud trial, ending a two-weeks-long flood of vitriol...
A Democratic congressman has come up with a way for Hunter Biden to lay himself bare in front of Congress that might hopefully appease House...
What do the sex lives of historical figures tell us that we don’t already know? What, for instance, do we stand to gain from learning that...
Elon Musk appears to be running out of people to blame for what has been a cataclysmic collapse of X (formerly known as Twitter) during his tenure...
The GOP’s presidential front-runner had himself a bit of an unhinged social media binge over the last couple of days, using Truth Social to air...
Though you wouldn’t know it from my social media feed, where the prevailing sentiment since Wednesday night has been glee over the long-awaited...
With his expulsion looking more likely by the hour, Representative George Santos has apparently decided that he won’t be going down alone. The...
Almost 50 years after the end of the Vietnam conflict, Americans are still crying out for love, not war. A new Economist/YouGov poll suggests that...
The Supreme Court appears poised to curb the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house enforcement power on Seventh Amendment grounds. During...
With possibly just 24 hours left in Congress, Representative George Santos has decided that now he wants in on the expulsion entertainment, as...
The United States is the world’s top producer of both oil and gas. That’s a fact you might forget listening to the U.S. diplomats attending this...
When Sonja Shaw ran for school board in Chino Valley in the southern California suburbs, she pledged her support to Moms for Liberty, a Christian...
This Thanksgiving, liberals should have spent some time showing gratitude for a historic victory—namely, the Supreme Court’s November 12 adoption...
Three enormous open-pit mines owned by Drummond Co. in northern Colombia dwarf the nearby town of La Loma, which sprang up after the U.S. company...
House Speaker Mike Johnson will speak at a Christian nationalist event next week, making it very clear that the extreme wing of the Republican...
Mike Johnson accidentally revealed just how weak the Republican impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden is, when he failed to actually defend one of the...
In recent election cycles, young voters have consistently delivered major wins for Democrats. Republicans have decided that the best response is to...
Presidential reelection campaigns are rarely dynamic or exciting. The theme is carrying on rather than change: The emphasis is on continuing work...
Here in the waning days of its most recent session, the Supreme Court is turning its attention toward some key abortion cases left on its docket....
Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator , the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating....
The unwavering loyalty Donald Trump has managed to foster among his followers hit a new bar on Tuesday, when one of Trump’s billionaire donors said...
Speaker Mike Johnson is facing down his first major challenge as the leader of the lower chamber’s Republican caucus: In just a matter of weeks,...
Seven years ago, former President Donald Trump raised his hand to take the presidential oath of office. He swore to “faithfully execute the office...
Two Jewish Democrats are leading the charge against a repugnant proposal floated by Montana Republican Representative Ryan Zinke—a bill that seeks...
Rupert Murdoch is set to be deposed on Tuesday and Wednesday in relation to the $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit between Smartmatic and Fox News....
Representative James Comer has a message for Hunter Biden: When it comes to the Biden family investigation, it’s my way or the highway. But for...
Hunter Biden’s lawyer offered Tuesday to have the embattled first son publicly testify in front of the House Oversight Committee, a marked shift...
The political network founded by Republican billionaire megadonor brothers Charles Koch and the late David Koch endorsed Nikki Haley on Tuesday for...
A story has been bouncing around on TikTok lately about a guy who went to a McDonald’s in Idaho in late 2022 and his meal came to $16.10. He...
In the late spring, the Club for Growth, the conservative organization that has spent more than two decades excommunicating any Republican it deems...
Elon Musk’s business empire has been built with government money. His spacecraft manufacturing and launching company, SpaceX, exists largely as a...
Government shutdown is back on the menu. The House GOP has made some ominous omissions from this week’s agenda: the appropriations bills that are...
The news media doesn’t seem to care about Donald Trump’s incendiary remarks anymore. At least, not as much as they cared when they were...
In the beginning there was nothing. Silence. Then: a bang. And then everything else. And though nobody was around (obviously) to hear the birth of...
Senator Tommy Tuberville thinks the U.S. military is the “weakest” it’s been in history, but he conveniently blames it on “wokeness” instead...
In the summer of 2021, the body of 29-year-old Damien Cameron was delivered to the crime lab in Jackson, Mississippi. Cameron, a Black man, had...
Tesla sued the Swedish Transport Agency on Monday, accusing the government office of discriminating against the electric carmaker and gumming up...
Something funky is going on at Sports Illustrated—several of their authors don’t seem to exist. According to an investigation by Futurism , the...