New York’s once vaunted civil-rights tradition is a pitiful shadow of its past self, its premier institutions available for rent if not outright sale. American Federation of Teachers chief...
Women in the U.S. can expect to live shorter lives than women in similarly wealthy nations, according to a brief from the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit research group focused on health care. In the brief, published Thursday, the Commonwealth Fund used provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to calculate the...
ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith said he hopes former President Trump does not regain the White House in November. “I don’t want Donald Trump to win this election,” Smith said on a Wednesday episode of his podcast, highlighted by Mediaite. “Strictly because he doesn’t know how to act. I’m fearful he will be on a...
Crypto-friendly Democrats offered their full-throated support for Vice President Harris on Wednesday night while also encouraging the campaign to seek a “reset” with the industry amid frustrations with the Biden administration. More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers and candidates, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), spoke...
A new study found no significant relationship between bail reform and crime rates, pushing back on the notion that bail reform led to the mid-pandemic spike in violent crime, the Brennan Center for Justice said Thursday. The report, published Thursday, analyzed monthly crime data from 2015 through 2022 in 22 cities that had put in...
Former President Trump has claimed he, and not President Biden or Vice President Harris, was responsible for capping the price of insulin at $35 a month. While the Trump administration implemented a temporary program under which some Medicare drug plans could voluntarily cap the cost of insulin, it was the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed...
Jon Stewart says former President Trump's "decline" has the former commander in chief becoming more like President Biden in the White House race, now that the president has dropped out. "I'll tell you what I think is happening, to be perfectly honest. I think he is, before our eyes, becoming Biden in this race," Stewart said of...
The far left thinks a Harris administration is poised to upend a 75-year bipartisan security alliance with Israel, the only democracy in the region. The far right is convinced a Trump administration will leave Ukraine to fend off Vladimir Putin by itself. Are they right to think that? Both campaigns owe voters an answer.
A federal judge has struck down rules in Missouri that aimed to limit the impact environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies have in investment advice. U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough sided Wednesday with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in an order on all four counts, saying that the rules violated the First Amendment,...
The Pentagon has likely undercounted the number of sexual assaults in the military, with cases much higher than official estimates, according to new research from Brown University's Costs of War Project. Researchers looked at Defense Department data from 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, to 2023, and found levels were two to four times higher...
A onetime campaign adviser for former President Obama predicted the coming election between former President Trump and Vice President Harris is going to be "incredibly close." "When you look at who the undecided voters are in this election, we're down to like 5 percent," said Jim Messina, Obama's former campaign manager, during a Thursday appearance...
Former President Trump asked the New York judge who oversaw his recent criminal trial to delay his sentencing until after November’s presidential election. Judge Juan Merchan previously agreed to push the date back until September so he can first decide whether the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision requires tossing Trump’s guilty verdict. “[S]etting aside naked...
The Democratic party has amplified the voices of elected officials who are doing everything in their power to alienate me and millions of people who share my values, ethnicity, culture, religion and identity.
