Barack Obama hasn’t made many public appearances in the 17 months since he left office. However, Democrats are likely to see plenty of their party’s most prominent figurehead in the coming months as he hits the campaign trail before November’s midterm elections. Though he’s not expected to make many appearances …
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Move over Roy Moore: Republican voters have unleashed a new nightmare candidate on America. Corey Stewart nabbed the win Tuesday night to become the GOP‘s senate nominee in Virginia. Stewart has gained Republican followers in old-line Virginia by wrapping himself in the Confederate flag and by fiercely defending Confederate monuments …
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Before President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un issued their joint statement on Tuesday afternoon in Singapore, before the two men met in private at a luxury hotel on the Singaporean island of Sentosa, before they shook hands with all the world watching, this much was true: Kim Jong-un …
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President Trump‘s former personal doctor said three men, including a Trump Organization lawyer and the president’s longtime bodyguard, “raided” his office last year and took the president’s medical records. In an interview with NBC News, Dr. Harold Bornstein said the incident took place February 3rd, 2017, two days after the …
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Now is a terrifying time to be a sex worker in America. On Wednesday, the president signed into law a new bill – a combination of the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act and the House’s Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act – which amends Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency …
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Max Boot, the noted Washington Post columnist, and “Jeane Kilpatrick senior fellow for National Security Studies” at the Council for Foreign Relations, thinks Donald Trump is betraying American values by meeting with Kim Jong-Un. Such a meeting, Boot says, would mean “giving the worst human-rights abuser on the planet what …
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Every morning since the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Manuel Oliver wakes up and puts on a pair of his son’s black basketball shoes. The afternoon of the shootings, Joaquin, a 17-year-old senior, wasn’t answering Manuel’s calls, but Joaquin’s friends were. On Snapchat, they could see where his …
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On Thursday, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, addressed the Parkland massacre by rehashing his organizations’ talking points on gun control. LaPierre’s comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference came just over a week after a gunman used an AR-15 to kill 17 teachers and students at …
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Nearly 100 years after her grandmother was arrested during a women’s suffrage rally in New York, Vicki Lambert is protesting in something her elder relative might have worn. “This is an authentic 1898 walking skirt outfit that you would wear to go to a charity event, if you were a …
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On Tuesday, California Senator Dianne Feinstein made the unilateral decision to release transcripts of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her Republican colleagues had previously refused to release the transcripts, despite calls from Simpson and his colleague, Peter Fritsch, for full transparency. To back up: …
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