James Talarico is a Texas state representative who’s recently announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. He’s a Democrat, but not afraid to criticize some...
In the years since the Biden administration abandoned America’s Afghan allies to the Taliban, I’ve told you about my frustrated efforts to save Afghans I served with in the Afghanistan War. Recently, I have new hope with the proposal of the Afghan Adjustment Act cosponsored by Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA). I […]
Years ago, around the time that many of my male friends were getting married, I noticed something. A few months after the ceremony — after the wedding pictures were framed and displayed, after the tropical honeymoon was a happy memory — my friends started getting fat. And noticeably so. Their shirts would be stretched taut […]
The year is 2119. The world as we know it has been ravaged and reconfigured. The first catastrophe occurred in the middle of the 21st century when a Russian missile, aimed at New Mexico, fell well short of its target and exploded in the Atlantic. A series of 70-foot waves flooded Europe, West Africa, and […]
Since Donald Trump’s return to office at the beginning of 2025, much has been made of the idea of the rise of a “woke Right.” Now that they have the governmental — and perhaps even cultural — whip hand, right-wingers are now indulging in the same sorts of speech policing behaviors that came to characterize […]
THE VIOLENT RESISTANCE TO ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAW. One troubling subset of the political violence coming from the Left these days is violence directed at federal immigration enforcement officers. There is a group of people in this country who so vehemently oppose the enforcement of federal immigration law that they will take up arms against it. They […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) slammed the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey as a “disgraceful attack on the rule of law” and argued that the criminal justice system has been “viciously weaponized" by the Trump administration. “The indictment of James Comey is a disgraceful attack on the rule of law. Donald Trump...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, argued Thursday night that there is “very little chance” that former FBI Director James Comey will ever be convicted after being indicted by a federal grand jury hours earlier. “So the good news is, I think there's very little chance he could ever...
Former FBI Director James Comey was hit with two federal charges late Thursday, days after President Trump ramped up pressure on his Justice Department to prosecute his most prominent adversaries. The counts stem from testimony Comey gave before the Senate in 2020 as it probed investigations into ties Trump’s 2016 campaign had with Russia, which...
Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday is heart was "broken" for the Department of Justice after he was indicted on two counts by the Trump Justice Department, but professed his innocence and said he was unafraid. Comey responded to news of his own indictment in a short video posted to Instagram. "My family and...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused NATO and the European Union (EU) on Thursday of declaring a “real war” with Russia and directly participating in the conflict. "A clear example is the crisis in Ukraine, provoked by the collective West, through which NATO and the European Union ... have already declared a real war on...
