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Yes, please, shame adults for getting into fights at youth sports games

Let's skip the silly kids’ games and go straight to the main event: out of shape, middle aged men brawling on a softball field.

An Opportunity for the Court to Sober Up Its Commerce Clause Jurisprudence

The Court has not flinched from overruling other egregiously wrong precedents in recent terms....

More Frequent and Detailed Health Updates Would Be Better, Senator McConnell

Sure, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is playing politics, but that doesn’t have a reasonable...

Fauci Makes the Case for SCOTUS’s Decision in Slaughter

There is no such thing as a brilliant, detached, learned figure who is set...

Can Democrats’ Primary-Calendar Speed Bumps Slow the Socialists?

If you’re a 2028 presidential contender, you need a strategy for those early states,...

Thune warns there aren’t 50 votes to advance budget resolution after Trump demands action

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) warned on Wednesday that he does not currently see 50 Republican votes for advancing a budget resolution, after President Trump renewed his call on the Senate to advance a budget framework to fund the war in Iran and perhaps raise the national debt limit as well. “We’ll have a more...

Trump, DOJ appeal E. Jean Carroll defamation suit verdict to Supreme Court 

President Trump and the Justice Department (DOJ) are petitioning the Supreme Court to review writer E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation award she won after accusing the president of sexual assault.  The administration wants to invoke a law that allows the federal government to step in when one of its employees stares down a lawsuit over...

Nicaragua’s dictatorship defies the Donroe Doctrine

Nicaragua represents a metastatic cancer that, if ignored, could spread to other countries in the Americas.

US, Saudi Arabia strike Iran-backed militias in Iraq

U.S. and Saudi forces launched strikes on Iranian proxies in Iraq overnight, spiking energy prices and fueling fears of a wider war as the war with Iran hits the five-month mark. Saudi Arabia responded to a streak of drone strikes from Iran-backed militias that targeted its Aramco’s Abqaiq oil processing facility. It is the world’s...

Trump’s EEOC has cut out demographic data and abandoned its core mission

We will not end the evils of racism and sexism by pretending they primarily victimize white men today. 

The Gavel: An attempt to take down super PACs 

If Larry Lessig gets his way on Wednesday, it will mark the beginning of the end of super PACs. The Harvard Law School professor and onetime presidential hopeful wants a Maine ballot measure he championed to spur a watershed moment for the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision. This morning, the battle heads to an appeals panel for oral arguments. The next step could be the high court. ...

Watch live: Fauci faces Senate heat on COVID, released diary entries

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief White House medical adviser, will testify Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on gain of function research, bringing the debate about the origins of the COVID pandemic back into the spotlight. The hearing comes just days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who chairs the committee, released more...

Live updates: Fauci to face Senate grilling on COVID origins, his diaries

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a face of the government's pandemic response, will sit Wednesday morning before a critical Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and the Senate Homeland Security panel to face questions on COVID-19. The former chief White House medical adviser and longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will appear days after...

Trump calls on Senate Republicans to adopt budget resolution before recess

President Trump late Tuesday renewed his call on Senate Republicans to adopt a House-passed budget resolution before the upcoming recess that would pave the way for passing a $95 billion emergency funding package with a simple-majority vote in September. The package would include $73 billion to help fund the Iran war effort, $12 billion for...

Congress can’t seem to figure out that sports gambling is just sports gambling

Every parent should worry that Washington seemingly cannot tell the difference between trading and obvious sports gambling.

Fauci hearing thrusts COVID fights back into spotlight

In today's issue: ▪ COVID-19 tensions in Senate spotlight ▪ Iran launches ‘surprise attack’ ▪ Graham sanctions bill advances ▪ ICE targeting Haitian, Syrian migrants The COVID-19 pandemic will return to center stage Wednesday as the man whose briefings dominated daily life for more than a year testifies before Congress. Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony...

Collins says State Department will reinstate funding for global humanitarian vaccine alliance

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that the State Department is set to reinstate funding for a global humanitarian vaccine program after the Trump administration previously paused the program. “It is welcome news that following our recent outreach, the State Department has committed to contributing the full $600 million for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance,” Collins...

Ex-Trump health official shocked by Fauci’s ‘unabashed narcissism’ from diaries

A former Trump health official on Tuesday slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci over his recently-released journal entries. “I'd like to see honesty and transparency and I'd like Tony to come clean with all the things that he's really been caught in contradictions,” Dr. Brett Giroir, a former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health...

South Dakota governor fends off challenger in primary runoff 

Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) is projected to defeat businessman Toby Doeden in Tuesday's GOP primary runoff for South Dakota governor, according to Decision Desk HQ. Rhoden will now take on Democrat Dan Ahlers, a former state senator, in November. He is expected to hang on to the seat given the state’s reliably Republican leanings. Rhoden and...

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