Abdul El-Sayed emerged from Michigan's Democratic primary facing questions not just about how he can solidify support outside the party's base but how he will energize Black voters, one of its most critical voting blocs. During the primary, Black voters largely favored El-Sayed's rival Rep. Haley Stevens (D), the establishment-backed candidate in the race. And...
Hawaiian voters go to the polls today to select the Democratic and Republican candidates in the Aloha State's congressional races this November. Both Democratic incumbents are seeking reelection, but one faces a progressive challenger who's hoping left-wing candidates' success across the country this year comes to the Aloha State. Meanwhile, Republicans already have presumptive nominees...
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director David Venturella accused the Associated Press on Saturday of misreporting his agency’s body camera policy in an article on how ICE decides what footage may be released to the public. Venturella alleged the report, published Friday, incorrectly portrayed a provision governing the expedited release of footage after serious...
All Democrats in the U.S. Senate voted against the nomination of Attorney General Todd Blanche, but their opposition was overridden by a majority of GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber in the early hours of Saturday morning. Many of these Democrats cited Blanche’s record over the past year as deputy and acting attorney general, pointing...
Unless someone is an astute student of history, it is unlikely that many know that the largest mass lynching in the nation’s history was of Italian Americans living in New Orleans in the last decade of the 19th century. The anonymity of this fact is indicative of a problem in the country’s historical education and […]
When regulations are killing your business, who you gonna call? Gavin Newsom? The California governor, in one of his many efforts to salvage his political reputation ahead of his inevitable 2028 run for president, is trying to get people to forget that he presided over the hollowing out of California businesses. According to the California […]
Divided as we are, the American public nonetheless widely agrees that the Chinese Communist Party is our enemy. Poll after poll has shown that Americans understand the CCP’s hegemonic ambitions are a threat to national security. A unique cross-party coalition has even emerged in Congress to build on this public sentiment and prepare the United […]
BELGRADE — The protests that shut down Serbia’s capital were fiery but mostly peaceful, in no small part due to a police force that understood the entire government’s fate rested on its restraint. “In the end, they destroyed 186 tractors, and the only big fight — they made it between themselves,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic […]
It was all smiles among President Donald Trump, criminal justice reform advocates, law enforcement representatives, and a bipartisan group of legislators in the Oval Office in 2018. Trump, who campaigned on law and order, was preparing to sign the First Step Act, one of the biggest criminal justice reform legislative bills in U.S. history. “This […]
Illegal immigrants are not Americans, they are foreign nationals who, in their first act in coming to this country, broke federal immigration law, and a majority of U.S. voters made it plain last fall that they expect lawmakers to do something about it. In 2024, the American electorate demanded every level and branch of government […]
When Congress first created tax exemptions for nonprofit organizations in 1894, the goal was simple: Support charitable institutions serving the public good. Today, that well-intentioned policy has morphed into a sprawling system that shields roughly 15% of the U.S. economy, approximately $3.3 trillion in annual revenue, from taxation. As America grapples with mounting federal debt […]
Any show that uses the title card “Baldwin Residence: East Hampton” is rather begging to be hate-watched. And on that basis, The Baldwins on TLC, which peers into the life of Alec, his second wife, Hilaria Baldwin, and their seven children, is undeniably addictive and sometimes perversely successful — but, for a whole host of […]
Joe Rogan has the largest podcast audience in America. Sometimes, he casts his pod for two hours or even four. The longest Rogan podcast so far, a 5-hour, 19-minute banter marathon with actor and comedian Duncan Trussell, is longer than the 1962 movie The Longest Day, which reconstructed the D-Day landings in a mere three hours. […]
From the Babylonian captivity to the Trail of Tears, the history of rulers forcibly removing or even annihilating subject peoples is a long and sordid one, but the scope and brutality of Nazism necessitated the creation of new terminology. “New conceptions require new terms” was the concise judgment of exiled lawyer Rafael Lemkin in Axis […]
In 1911 a nearly penniless widow who called herself Katharine Gibbs sold her jewelry, scraped a $1,000 loan together, and bought a ramshackle “business school” in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, that taught typing and shorthand to young women seeking office jobs, one of the few lines of decently paying work for them a century ago. […]
Daniel Clarke-Pounder, a 24-year-old progressive activist, was arrested in South Carolina this week for setting a lot of Tesla chargers on fire with Molotov cocktails. He scrawled “F*** Trump” and “Long live the Ukraine” on the pavement. The incident appeared to copy an arson weeks earlier in Loveland, Colorado, which saw 42-year-old Justin Grace Nelson, […]
Yes, I watched it after 13 hours on the interstate. And yes, the kids were making a racket in the next room. But the new Netflix movie by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, of Avengers: Endgame fame, would have been a disaster in even the most tranquil of circumstances. Screen it in a one-man space […]
Overall, white voters (who made up 71% of the electorate in 2024) overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump by a 15-point margin (57%-42%). But as NBC’s Steve Kornacki highlighted in his latest polling, when you drill down by gender and education, there are “pronounced gender and education gaps” among white voters. White men with and […]
