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New Guttmacher Data Purportedly Show Increasing Abortion Rates in 2023

New data from the Guttmacher Institute show an increase in the U.S. abortion rate since 2020, but there are reasons to be skeptical of...

Republicans go all out to ban DEI mandates in medical schools

GOP lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday banning race-based mandates at medical schools and accrediting institutions.

Congress, White House land on a deal to finish funding government ahead of deadline

Congressional leaders have finally landed on a deal with the White House to finish funding the government, after disagreements over the Homeland Security spending bill threatened to derail the process.

School closures keep looking worse, but no consequences are coming

There has still been little to no accountability for the unnecessary school closures during the pandemic that set children back quite drastically. The New York Times ran through the data once again and found everything that many of us have been arguing for years to be true. Math scores between third and eighth grade dropped […]

Rumored Trump Cabinet is a mixed bag

A favorite pastime of political aficionados is speculating on what people will get top Cabinet positions if a given presidential candidate is elected, and with former President Donald Trump wrapping up the Republican nomination last week, the speculation about who would join his administration is moving more into focus. A new report from Bloomberg citing […]

How Ukraine tried to influence the Russian election

Russian elections are frequently driven by violence. This one was no exception. When I was part of a small team of American consultants that secretly advised then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s reelection campaign in 1996, I remember a news report of a campaign worker on the St. Petersburg mayor’s race having acid thrown in his face, […]

Fox News drops Navarro news conference, offers fact-check

Fox News cut away from a press conference former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was giving to fact check claims he was making before he reported to prison for a four-month sentence in connection with his refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena. Navarro, who would not comply with the House investigation into the...

One-in-five Latino adults follows the news regularly: Report

Story at a glance Fewer U.S. Latinos are keeping up with current events, following a years-long trend among Americans in general, according to a new study. The report, published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, found that about one-in-five Latino adults — or roughly 22 percent — follow the news all or most of the time,...

The most gruesome war you’ve never heard of

I’ve wondered why so many activists who froth at the mouth against Israel seem to yawn at atrocities in Sudan.

Biden touts drop in US crime rate in 2023

President Biden on Tuesday touted the decrease in crime in 2023, citing data from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). The FBI data, released on Tuesday found that the U.S. experienced 11 percent less crime in cities over 1 million people compared to 2022, 13 percent fewer murders overall and 6 percent less violent crime. “Across America,...

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