On an election night that gave conservatives nearly more luminous moments than we could count, one shone with particular clarity. Around 1 a.m., before the networks called the presidential race but long after the result was obvious, CNN’s Van Jones faced the camera to deliver a characteristically weepy monologue. Black women and Hispanic people, Jones […]

There are many commendable adaptations of Charles Dickens‘s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, but if your family is anything like mine, The Muppet Christmas Carol is the version that gets watched by the entire extended family every year. It’s the little things that make the Muppet version a crowd favorite. Everyone has their favorite scene. […]

California voters decided in November that they wanted to celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year by locking up criminals who are finding out the hard way that their get-out-of-jail-free cards have been revoked. California voters defied the pro-criminal sympathies of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and other leading state Democrats to pass Proposition […]

We are told every day to fear the rise of the “Christian nationalists,” you know, those religious extremists who believe their rights come from God rather than from the state. But when they can catch their breath from their hyperventilations about theocracy, our media minders inform us that conservatives — pro-lifers, for instance — have […]

President Biden will award the Medal of Honor to seven U.S. Army soldiers and the Medal of Valor to eight public safety officers at the White House on Friday. The Medal of Honor is given to members of the armed service who distinguish themselves during combat. Six of the seven recipients on Friday will receive...

Carter appointed 262 federal judges during his years in office, more than any single-term president before him. He also appointed a record number of minority and female judges.

Laws hiking taxes and adding regulations are set to take effect in states across the country in the New Year, from New York to California and the District of Columbia to Colorado.

House Speaker Mike Johnson stares down a difficult battle to retain the gavel on Friday, even despite an endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump.

The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department, the judiciary's policymaking body said Thursday.

The homeless population in the United States surged by 18% in 2024, the largest annual increase since the Department of Housing and Urban Development started collecting data in 2007. Worse, the number of homeless families increased by 39%, also a record. Although the HUD report released in December tries to hide it, President Joe Biden […]