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
With their phony legal arguments and pandering to Trump’s baseless claims, Cruz and Hawley’s bad behavior sets a bad precedent. As Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said, accountability for the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol MORE
Fiona Hill describes herself as an American by choice. Born in England, she is a foreign affairs specialist and academic, former National Security Council official, and witness at the November ’19 impeachment hearings. — editor’s MORE
The federal criminal code (18 USC 373) makes it a crime to solicit, command, induce or “endeavor to persuade” another person to commit a felony that includes the threat or use of physical force. Simply MORE
“Before the assault, Trump had addressed the crowd and urged his loyalists to march on the Capitol, “to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones … give them the pride and boldness they need to take MORE
The attack on the Capitol made so many of the ugliest parts of Donald Trump obvious even to people who pretended they didn’t exist. Of all of these personality “flaws” — as his former White MORE
Violent extremists who charged the Capitol on Jan. 6, Trump described as “very special” patriots “who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long.” Capitol police officers were seen taking selfies with rioters. Following MORE
“I love my uncle. But when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong” Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, internal medicine resident physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center My hospital, along with hundreds of others across the MORE
What person or group of people do you think best represents 2020? Do you agree with Time magazine’s selection of President-elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as its persons of the year? MORE
Donald Trump has seemingly made grievances a feature and not a bug of his life, including his presi-duncy. One might consider that he has an addiction to victimhood. A researcher of violence and the role MORE
Let’s review two pieces of news from the last week. First, the American coronavirus pandemic is entering its worst stage yet, with cases and deaths skyrocketing across the country. Last Thursday saw over 3,000 deaths — more MORE
President Trump came to office unencumbered by close study of our founding documents. From the start, there was only one bit of the Constitution he found compelling: “I have an Article II, where I have the right MORE
There is no evidence that Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are secretly working for the Democratic National Committee, but no one has definitively disproved it, either. That’s the kind of the conspiratorial reasoning that the MORE