Politics

B arbara Boxer was in Greenland in July 2007, watching chunks of ice slide off glaciers into the rising ocean. She had brought Republican senators there with her, hoping a first-person confrontation with climate change would persuade them to take action. And as the newly calved icebergs flowed past, the …

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts opposes the legalization of medical marijuana in his state, and warned parents that the substance will “kill your kids.” “This is a dangerous drug that will impact our kids,” the Republican governor said on Wednesday. “If you legalize marijuana, you’re gonna kill your kids. That’s what …

When trying to explain the importance of the Equality Act, Kierra Johnson, director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, only had to think as far as her next trip. “It’s just two and a half hours,” she says from her home in Washington D.C. to visit her mom in Texas. …

In making the case against former president Donald Trump, House impeachment manager Del. Stacey Plaskett shared compelling, previously unaired footage and law enforcement communications from the day of the Capitol attack that showed lawmakers coming terrifyingly close to encountering the riotous mob. As footage from social media and Capitol security …

President Joe Biden said former president Donald Trump should not receive intelligence briefings due to his “erratic behavior.” Biden answered, “I think not,” when asked by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell if Trump should receive the sensitive briefings. Biden went on to say that he didn’t see an upside …

Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund will resign effective Jan. 16, according to a police spokesperson. His resignation comes as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are demanding answers from the Capitol Police after it failed to stop a mob of Trump supporters from taking control of large parts of …

While Americans are filling up hospitals and dying in droves from the coronavirus, Rudy Giuliani is boasting about how his “celebrity” influenced the treatment he received from doctors. Either because he is too dense, too stupid, or just thoroughly devoid of any empathy for others who are not famous, Giuliani …

In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friend-of-the-show journalist and historian Thomas Frank. For this week’s Democrats Suck, Katie takes issue with Democrats “punching left,” citing a leaked conference call among House Democrats where some Dems reportedly blamed the poor …

One week after an election that was in part about health care, President Donald Trump was at the Supreme Court trying to gut the nation’s health care laws. Ironically, it appears that at least one of the justices Trump himself appointed to the Supreme Court might not let the president …

Dr. Robert Bullard had trouble selling a book in the late Eighties about what he knew to be true. He had written about a subject on which he’d long sounded the alarm: racism involving a sort of discrimination that is much more silent, a violence that doesn’t come via a …