The hilarious 2006 film “Idiocracy” offers a vivid depiction of American politics. The movie is classified as a sci-fi comedy, but it is more like a searing documentary. It almost perfectly describes America’s crisis of MORE
“A poll on the 52nd anniversary of the moon landing shows a majority of Republicans now reject science, sparking a COVID-19 comeback.” When the three-man mission had blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in MORE
In a Washington Post op-ed, George Conway says we should be thankful for Trump’s legal team for holding the former guy back from accomplishing his attempted self-coup. No matter how many cultists Trump developed, he MORE
Donald Trump’s oldest son is flogging videos of himself online, while Ivanka is keeping an unusually low profile By Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian columnist. My father, you won’t be surprised to hear, is not a billionaire MORE
While most Americans go about their calmer post-Trumpian lives under the Biden administration, a significant number of their fellow citizens live in a different reality entirely. For them, a world of dystopian intensity has just MORE
While the CDC has relaxed mask guidance, the mask wars are not over. The CDC says vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks in most cases, but unvaccinated should continue to wear masks. Of the MORE
Nine fully vaccinated members of the New York Yankees have tested positive for coronavirus in the past week that have included three coaches, five staffers, and one shortstop. They all are part of the traveling MORE
The representative from Wyoming is taking a stand against an authoritarian streak in the Republican Party that she helped cultivate. Liz Cheney, the representative of Wyoming, the daughter of a former vice president, and a MORE
Here’s a line you can expect to hear in almost every ad for a Democratic candidate for Senate between now and Nov. 8, 2022, courtesy of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.: “One hundred percent of my focus MORE
In a new opinion published in the Washington Post on Wednesday, Liz Cheney stood up for her principles and warned the GOP they are at a turning point to “decide whether we are going to MORE
Search warrants aren’t easy to get, and in the case of the Giuliani search warrants, the DOJ and a judge were convinced there was evidence of wrongdoing. It’s particularly unusual to execute a warrant against MORE
Playing off Trumps “drain the swamp” campaign theme, the Lincoln Project seeks to widen the gap between Donald and McConnell suggesting he (Trump) has been played by establishment republicans. Addressing Trump directly, a new video MORE
Less than one week after perhaps the most egregiously anti-transgender bill in modern US history passed the Arkansas legislature, it was vetoed in a surprise move by Governor Asa Hutchinson, a staunch Republican with a poor record on LGBTQ MORE
The worst maritime animal welfare tragedy in history could by now, be unavoidable, says Gabrile Păun, the EU director for Animals International, an NGO. There are 16 ships taking live animals from the EU to MORE
Murders surged in 2020. Here’s what we know The past year was a nightmare in many ways for the US, between Covid-19 deaths and the collapsing economy. But it’s now clear that 2020 was bad MORE
“All of these bumps along the way, however, should not distract us from recognizing the giant quality upgrade we have made in the Oval Office. It is long past time to stop underestimating Biden, knocking MORE
Responding to the recent events surrounding the removal of certain Dr. Seuss titles, a NYT columnist called out other stereotypes presented in cartoons from his childhood. Although he mentioned a few characters, his conclusion that MORE
FORMER Vice President Mike Pence broke his silence after the January 6th insurrection that almost cost him his life. In an OpEd published in Daily Signal, a conservative publication owned by The Heritage Foundation. In MORE
Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity. There’s no place like home—unless you’re Elon Musk. A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, which may someday send humans to Mars, is, according to Musk, likely MORE
Robert E. Lee’s home, now Arlington National Cemetery, became a final resting place for Union soldiers in 1864. We should follow the Union example. Opinion columnist Jason Sattler has an article in USA TODAY that MORE
A precedent; “something done or said to serve as a rule or example.” Presidents have been the authors of informal constitutional amendments due to actions considered a precedent and later adopted, such as the two MORE
For years, big corporations have been assaulting democracy with big money, drowning out the voices and needs of ordinary Americans and fueling much of the anger and cynicism that opened the door to Trump in MORE
Donald Trump ends his tumultuous presidency with the nation confronting the greatest strain to its fundamental cohesion since the Civil War. The January 6 assault on the US Capitol capped four years in which Trump relentlessly stoked the nation’s MORE
In an opinion piece in The Atlantic titled “QAnon is Destroying the GOP From Within,” Republican Senator Ben Sasse is calling on his Republican Party to “repudiate the nonsense that has set our party on MORE
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol by a fervent mob hoping to overturn Trump’s electoral defeat, a litany of commentators invoked one notorious incident surrounding the rise of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a cautionary tale for Washington MORE