Hasan Piker celebrated Ed Markey's Massachusetts primary win over Seth Moulton, calling it proof that progressive policies and trans rights are winning.
Stephen Lynch defeated progressive challenger Patrick Roath in the Massachusetts 8th Congressional District Democratic primary despite clashes over ICE.
Richard Neal defeated progressive challenger Jeromie Whalen in the Massachusetts 1st Congressional District primary, but the seniority debate rages on.
President Donald Trump has made fighting the inflow of illegal drugs into America a top priority, and Mexico’s takedown of the world’s most powerful...
The State of the Union has been the occasion for many very bad ideas. I’ve been watching them for decades, and today, ahead of Trump’s address, I am going to blog on some of the worst moments in 21st-century State of the Union addresses. The first State of the Union I covered in person was […]
Going into his 2024 State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden was facing what the press called a coordinated Republican effort to paint him as too old and mentally declined to hold the job. Biden tried to disprove those charges by angrily yelling for more than an hour. The media loved it. STATE OF […]
Attending my great friend (and great journalist) Al Weaver’s bachelor trip to Chicago last summer, I met Ryan Tilley. Ryan is a great guy. He’s also an intelligent, composed, and handsome husband and father. Through Al, I had known about Ryan’s twin brother, Mike. Mike Tilley was diagnosed with colon cancer in July 2021 at the age of […]
Barack Obama was elected president, promising to take on corporate lobbyists. Because much of the news media took Obama’s word for it, he kept peddling the story throughout his presidency. PREEMPTIVE FACT CHECK ON OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION So on the morning of Obama’s first State of the Union address, I wrote a preemptive […]
From start to now, Los Angeles’s handling of the fires that tore through the city a year ago has been a masterclass in how not to run a city, and all of the Democratic leaders involved are happy to point the finger elsewhere instead of finding real solutions. The latest response disaster has been fines levied against […]
Many progressives and internationalists on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean support European Union expansion. Increasing membership does not always bring peace. The Kremlin justified Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia, as well as Moscow’s 2014 and 2022 invasions of Ukraine, in its own paranoia about Western efforts to expand EU membership eastward. The logic behind […]
The snowstorm that shut down the Northeast did not shut down the mob. In the streets of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York and in its Washington Square Park in lower Manhattan, crowds of young men assaulted police officers with snowballs. This might sound like harmless fun. After all, that’s the point of snowball fights; they […]
