It must be counted as a surprise that George Clooney did not win a Tony Award this past Sunday for his portrayal of Edward R. Murrow in the Broadway version of “Good Night and Good Luck.” The show is breaking box office records and at times explicitly, as in its coda focused on contemporary media […]
With Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents breaking with modern tradition and actually arresting and deporting illegal immigrants under President Donald Trump‘s widely popular border control policies, we’ve seen the return of another particularly disgusting Nazi analogy: comparing ICE to the Gestapo. Former Democratic Party vice presidential candidate and supposed normal man Tim Walz called ICE […]
Any conventional wisdom diminishing his ability to compete is unwise. That’s because Emanuel can’t be easily discounted. He deserves more than just casual observation.
President Trump’s approval rating dipped to 38 percent, the lowest of his second term, according to the latest poll from Quinnipiac University. In the June poll, 38 percent of registered voters approved of the way Trump is doing his job, while 54 percent disapproved. The results mark the first time Trump’s numbers dipped below 40-percent...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will give remarks Thursday morning as demonstrations sprout up nationwide in protest of President Trump's sweeping immigration agenda. Following U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Los Angeles, Jeffries hammered Trump over deploying military troops to quell protests, accusing the president of purposefully escalating tensions to distract the country...
The CIA has released an additional 54 documents in its third round of declassifying papers related to the 1968 assassination of former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.). The disclosure comes after earlier batches were publicized first in April and again in May, following an executive order that President Trump signed in January calling for the...
Three Democratic governors are appearing before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday morning to address sanctuary states, a topic well-timed with protests in California and beyond over the Trump administration's crackdown on migrants. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker face the committee in a hearing that was...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a new poster online featuring World War II imagery, urging citizens to help locate and report immigrants who are in the country without documentation. "Help your country and yourself," reads the poster, which shows Uncle Sam with a hammer nailing a flier to a wall. "Report all foreign...
David Hogg said too many Democratic leaders were “asleep at the wheel” as he announced late Wednesday that he would forgo seeking reelection as Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair. “After seeing a serious lack of vision from Democratic leaders, too many of them asleep at the wheel, and Democrats dying in office that have...
The Supreme Court on Thursday revived an Atlanta family’s lawsuit over a botched FBI raid on its home in 2017 but put off deciding the case's ultimate fate. In a unanimous decision, the justices instead sent the case back to a lower court to take another crack at deciding whether the lawsuit can move forward....
GOP leaders made balanced budgets a governing credo for a generation. As recently as 2024, the Senate adopted a Republican resolution calling the debt “unsustainable, irresponsible, and dangerous.”
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk show signs of reconciliation after their public feud, while a new poll shows Musk's favorability among Republicans dropping.
