The Law Always Gets Its Man
The police killed Leonard Cure after he was freed following a wrongful conviction. Was he better off in prison?
The police killed Leonard Cure after he was freed following a wrongful conviction. Was he better off in prison?
The enigma of recent geopolitical events—from rising global terror threats to the uncertain future of Gaza and the limitations of Middle East accords.
Joe Biden is shrewd, careful, and calibrated. Almost everyone else on the stage is a wild child.
As part of the agreement with prosecutors, Sidney Powell is required to “testify truthfully” in future trials and has to turn any documents in her possession over to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis upon request.
Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuel emissions.
President Biden’s message to Israel stressed that while Israel has the full support of the US, if it handles Gaza badly it could destabilize the Middle East.
Harassment and intimidation have always been a part of the MAGA playbook. Therefore, it is not surprising that Jim Jordan’s supporters resorted to them after two failed votes. But in this case, the strategy seems to be backfiring.
Some employers are circulating a blacklist of college students who signed anti-Israel petitions with a view toward making them unemployable. What next?
The destruction of a hospital in Gaza just as President Biden was arriving in Israel has led to numerous demonstrations inflaming an already volatile situation.
A new poll from the University of Virginia shows how deep the division in American politics has become.
Clashes with Hezbollah have intensified along Israel’s northern border, but the militant group, which has close ties to Iran, is still waiting to see what happens in Gaza.
The Gaza hospital explosion illustrates that, instead of carelessly spreading propaganda, US lawmakers — such as Tom Cotton and Rashida Tlaib — on both sides should be much more judicious when it comes to which information they disseminate.
Judge Tanya Chutkan made it clear on Tuesday that her sole goal is to protect the integrity of the trial and a gag order has only become necessary because of Trump’s behavior.
Exxon’s official corporate rebuttal to #ExxonKnew has mysteriously disappeared after seven years.
Apart from maybe George Santos, Jim Jordan might be the least qualified person to be House speaker. And, in the eyes of today’s GOP, that just might make him the perfect man for the job.
Former President Donald Trump’s attempts to protect his reputation over the Steele Dossier are… ambitious.
How is it possible that Jim Jordan’s role in the January 6 insurrection isn’t even a topic for the House GOP?
Musk may pay a big fine for willfully spreading lies — but the human cost in lives cannot be calculated.
In a late-night rant, Donald Trump lied about what is at stake in Monday’s hearing on a limited gag order in his DC coup case.
The Republican delegation in the House of Representatives is full of clowns who have no real interest in governing. Their main goal is to weaken the federal government while funneling money to wealthy benefactors.
If Donald Trump’s rivals are unwilling to attack him as hard as possible after his Israel gaffes, why are they even in this race?
The practice of actually using the laws intended to promote transparency illustrates just how broken the process of legal disclosure can be.
Since it only takes a handful of moderate Republicans to sink Jordan’s ambitions, all eyes will be on them this week to see if they can hold the line.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in Tel Aviv, described Hamas as worse than ISIS. Will Israel’s retaliation be equally terrible? Does anyone really want that?
As a patchwork solution to their failure to unite behind one speaker of the house, some Republicans have suggested giving the speaker pro tempore broader authority to at least get some business done. In a letter they sent to McHenry late Friday, four centrist Democrats said this is a plan they could get behind… for a price.
On Thursday, Vivek Ramaswamy made a rare misstep by inadvertently asserting that Donald Trump is unfit to be commander in chief… although it stands to reason that neither the former president nor his supporters will draw the connection.
Israel’s latest crisis from an insider’s perspective: the role of the US, the state of Israel’s internal politics, and is there a path to diplomacy.
It seems a bipartisan solution is the only sensible way out of the mess the House GOP has made… but that doesn’t mean it will happen.
In addition to his legal problems, the senator’s political career is also on life support.
Find me a conflict zone, and I’ll find you a Kremlin operative with a blowtorch.
Gerrymandering, voter suppression, dark money, and other moves insulate policymakers from accountability when they prop up fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy.
With every day that passes, it is becoming more and more clear that Republicans on every level are incapable of governing, as evidenced most recently by their apparent failure to elect a new speaker of the House.
Santos may be the most controversial member currently serving in Congress, which is quite a distinction.
The difference between Republican and Democratic visions for America is as clear as the difference between Russia and Norway (or California and Mississippi).
If Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) becomes the next speaker, he might get a lot more attention than he is bargaining for.
As it so often does in our social media-obsessed world, it all began with a tweet.
Pointing to Donald Trump’s tendency to try to use intimidation to affect court proceedings, special counsel Jack Smith’s team asked the judge presiding over the former president’s DC coup case to take steps to protect jurors.
We need context for understanding and solving the unfolding tragedy.
There are problems in this world that have no easy fix, and the situation in the Middle East is one of them.
Considering Earth’s interacting systems could pull the planet back into a stable operating space.
The founder of MyPillow is broke and desperate.
This morning, Kevin McCarthy noted that the House is paralyzed because there isn’t a speaker in place. While he didn’t declare his candidacy, McCarthy’s message was clear: The US is in a mess now and might have trouble assisting Israel because he is not speaker.
In a rambling social media post, Trump reminds us not to forget about Stormy Daniels.
Exactly 50 years to the day after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Hamas reignites an all-out war with Israel.
Israel’s clandestine efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions are reshaping the Middle East in unexpected ways.
It’s fair to criticize the Biden administration for the course it has chosen in its dealings in the Middle East, but claiming that the funds released to Iran were used in the attack is a lie, and doing so while dead bodies are still lying in the streets of Israel is beyond the pale.
House of Representative politics is a team sport without the team spirit.
No matter who becomes speaker, chaos will reign in the chamber as long as the GOP is in control.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster from House leadership will surely delay fixing America.