“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
In the wake of Attorney General William Barr’s admission of the obvious on Tuesday — “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election” — Sen. MORE
Across the United States, millions of people pointedly spurning CDC advice as they celebrated Thanksgiving during a time of increased covid-19 community spread were excited to hearken back to the very first traditions of European MORE
John Delaney, former Congressman from Maryland and 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate, has an idea to pay Americans to take a COVID-19 vaccine. With several vaccines soon ready for distribution, Delaney says that the difficult part MORE
Being president should mean you are more accountable, not less, to the rule of law. When the Biden administration takes office in 2021, it will face a unique, fraught decision: Should Donald Trump be criminally MORE
OK, so you haven’t seen so many slam dunks since the USA “Dream Team” won the 1992 Olympics, as Team Trump’s ace legal department actually embraces My Cousin Vinny while racking up a courtroom won-loss record that rivals MORE
If you read the news these days, there’s a good chance you’ll see that sociologists believe the United States is on the verge of sustained political violence, that our democracy is on a knife’s edge, that voters openly MORE
For weeks, President Trump and his allies have been laying groundwork to challenge the results of the election if he loses. Now, in the final days of the campaign, he has settled on a blatantly MORE
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump essentially rejected the legitimacy of ballots cast by thousands of military personnel serving overseas. “It would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on Nov. 3, MORE
Since Trump began flogging the Hunter Biden story, he doesn’t have a lot to show for it. The opposition research on Joe’s son resulted in an impeachment, and not much interest outside of the Fox MORE
A couple of days ago a post went up about some public schools using Prager University videos in the classroom. I knew nothing about the organization, but the videos feature right wing ideologues like Ben MORE
Elected to the Senate in 2002, in his quest for a more serious persona, Graham fastened himself to McCain. “Lindsey for some reason had sort of a man-crush on John McCain,” said his friend, Senator Steve Largent, MORE
In a Senate Judiciary Committee session held last Thursday, Senator Amy Klobuchar had the opportunity to follow remarks made by Senator Ted Cruz, who was mocking Democrats’ concern with the Supreme Court. Senator Cruz called MORE
To use power, you must have it. On the night of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that a Trump nominee to replace Ginsburg would receive a vote on the MORE
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served as a key witness in President Trump’s impeachment inquiry, told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that he believes Trump is a “useful idiot” and “unwitting agent” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Context: This MORE
The legal team for 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse has called him a member of the “militia” and a “minuteman,” referring to the patriot forces that fought the British at Lexington and Concord in 1775. This terminology, though archaic, is fairly common in MORE
Hours after the body of Donald Trump supporter Aaron Danielson began growing cold on the streets of Portland, Oregon, the latest casualty in the ongoing domestic unrest of the Trump era, frothing far-right backers immediately jumped MORE
Adolf Hitler did not have to come to power. Indeed, during his 13-year quest for leadership of Germany, he almost failed many times. In the end, however, his astonishing success showed how demagoguery could overcome MORE
Incumbent presidents have two goals for their renomination convention: Show voters what they’ve achieved in their first four years, and tell them what they want to do with another four. Donald Trump and his Republican MORE
On Thursday, federal prosecutors for the southern district of New York announced the indictment and arrest of Steve Bannon, the mastermind behind Donald Trump’s 2016 upset victory, and three others on a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Minutes MORE