MAKING SENSE OF THE ERIC ADAMS FLAP. For a while last week, it looked like it might become a major scandal. It still could, but with a few days’ perspective, the Trump Justice Department‘s decision to drop the public corruption indictment against New York Mayor Eric Adams seems more mismanagement than wrongdoing. On Sept. 26, 2024, the […]
President Donald Trump might go down in history as the best thing that ever happened to legal abortion in the United States. That’s because Trump, by muzzling pro-life leaders and championing states’ rights on abortion following his efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade, cultivated a political environment in which the practice of legal abortion has […]
Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said in a recent interview that opponents of President Trump's executive action against birthright citizenship will ultimately prevail against him in court. Asked by The New Yorker during its "Radio Hour" podcast, Romero said birthright citizenship was the issue from the Trump administration...
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) is issuing a sharp rebuke of President Trump’s flurry of executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) since his inauguration. Speaking at the National Cathedral’s Holy Eucharist and Annual HBCU Welcome Sunday, Warnock said many of the president’s orders are a “wholesale unabashed assault” on DEI. “Don't tell me you...
Ukraine is urging Europe to quickly select a representative for potential talks with the U.S. and Russia on ending Kyiv's war with Russia. “It should be a quickly made decision,” Igor Zhovkva, the deputy head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, told Bloomberg. “I hope right after the Paris meeting. We should act, not reflect.” French...
President Trump's claim that the inhabitants of Gaza must be transferred elsewhere for reconstruction is contradicted by the post-World War II reconstructions of cities such as Dresden and Hiroshima, where inhabitants were at the center of the rebuilding process.
Users on Elon Musk's social media platform X were not able to share or post links to the encrypted messaging app Signal on Monday and were greeted with various failure notifications when they tried to do so. Beginning Sunday, multiple users posted on X that they received error messages when they tried to post any...
Elon Musk has used his platform to spread false claims about Social Security, potentially leading to the theft of earned benefits, while President Trump is giving him the power to do so.