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“Please noooooo”: Ye implores Trump, Musk to reconcile
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West encouraged Trump and Musk to patch things up
Jun 5, 2025
Battleground state? California could be key to control of U.S. House
Republicans are hoping to work out a new model for a party less tied to Trump's fortunes in California
Oct 10, 2024
“There will be no rematch!”: Trump says he won’t even debate Harris on Fox News
The former president is refusing to engage in a second debate amid questions about his age and fitness for office
Oct 10, 2024
“We didn’t answer”: DeSantis refuses to take calls from Kamala Harris as another hurricane looms
DeSantis has declined to speak with Harris or President Joe Biden even as his state relies on federal aid
Oct 7, 2024
Harris pushes back on GOP’s “childless” attacks in “Call Her Daddy” interview
“We have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both,” Vice President Harris said
Oct 7, 2024
“Let me just stop you right there”: Dana Bash calls outs Trump’s Hurricane Helene lies
The CNN host wouldn't let Lara Trump dodge questions about her father-in-law's disinformation campaign
Oct 7, 2024
Is this the endgame stage for Trump, or just a trainwreck?
There are four very clear paths to the end of the Trump presidency (the fourth is the most punishing)
Apr 18, 2018
Meghan McCain accuses adult star Stormy Daniels of “publicity stunt” on “The View”
"What I do for a job doesn't impact my ability to know right from wrong – or my ability to tell the truth"
Apr 17, 2018
Presidential historian Gil Troy: Donald Trump has committed “a crime against the American people”
Scholar Gil Troy says it's not too late for Trump to change — but history will judge his enablers harshly
Apr 9, 2018
Kansas is embracing an entirely unique brand of secrecy
Kansas is going so far to keep secret the names of individuals who sponsor legislation
Nov 13, 2017
Conservatives learn the wrong lesson from GOP defeat in Virginia
Conservatives have come up with a number of harebrained explanations for Ed Gillespie's loss on Tuesday
Nov 8, 2017
Sarah Huckabee Sanders stumbles trying to spin Trump’s terror hypocrisy
The White House press secretary told many of lies about Trump's statements on U.S. immigration policy
Nov 1, 2017
Jeff Sessions may be in big trouble after George Papadopoulos’ guilty plea
According to the Department of Justice, Sessions was there when an aide said he had a path to Russia
Oct 31, 2017
Bernie betrays Democrats, announces reelection run as an independent
After pledging in 2015 to run as a Democrat in future races, Sanders now wants to run in 2018 as an independent
Oct 24, 2017
Jake Tapper burns Bill O’Reilly to ash, reminds him he was “humiliated in front of the world”
When the former Fox News host took shots at Tapper's ratings, the CNN host blasted him with a reality check
Oct 19, 2017
Against Mars-a-Lago: Why SpaceX’s Mars colonization plan should terrify you
Elon Musk wants to colonize the red planet, rich people first. Don't confuse SpaceX with NASA — this will end badly
Oct 8, 2017
The most depraved things Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at today’s press briefing
From the NFL to North Korea, here are the press secretary's most absurd responses of the day
Sep 25, 2017
Russian hackers exploited a Google flaw to hack journalists
Hacker team "Fancy Bear" used Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages to steal Gmail passwords
Sep 24, 2017
Alex Jones’ live broadcast from the streets of Seattle goes about how you think it would
It may be a false flag video, but watching Alex Jones heckled on the street is amazing
Aug 23, 2017
Russia and China are cracking down on VPNs and other methods of evading censorship
Apple removes all virtual private network (VPN) apps from its Chinese App Store
Jul 31, 2017
Julian Assange: Democratic Party is “doomed”
Assange says the politics of centrism and the Democrats' neglect of their base are why they can't move forward
Jun 26, 2017
There’s a simple math test that might slay the partisan gerrymander
Math can come up with a simple measure of whether the two major parties are treated differently
May 15, 2017
“We are providing more choices”: This is why London, Ontario adopted ranked choice voting — and made Canadian history
Starting in 2018, London will allow voters to name their top three choices for city office
May 13, 2017
Democrats shame Republicans with “adopt a district” plan to hold town halls for missing GOP representatives
Republicans are running scared following their Trumpcare vote — and Democrats are poised to swoop in
May 9, 2017
Trump strikes a nasty new tone in Pennsylvania, just as the NYT’s tax scoop hits — coincidence?
Donald Trump goes ugly at Pennsylvania rallies, just as news breaks that he may have paid no taxes for years
Oct 2, 2016
“Where’s the beef?”: After Clinton and Trump went for style over substance, here are the burning issues we need to tackle at the next debate
The first presidential debate was a study in contrasting styles, but these crucial issues were never even discussed
Sep 28, 2016
Hate wins again Mississippi governor signs bill allowing businesses to deny service to gay customers
The law allows state employees to refuse issuing same-sex-marriage licenses
Apr 5, 2016
President Obama pushes back against Bernie’s definition of a progressive and sorta-kinda-almost endorses Hillary
"Trying to find common ground doesn't make me less of a Democrat or less of a progressive"
Feb 11, 2016
Welcome to life in no man’s land: The growing perils of the electromagnetic border zone
As many as 200 million Americans are subject to an almost complete exemption from the Fourth Amendment. Here's why
Nov 9, 2014
Those weak losers who care about “law”
A top Obama campaign aide uses the language of Bush/Rove/Palin to suggest law is proof of weakness
Feb 24, 2012