Politics

A lot has been written about what might happen to Trump’s election prospects in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, the subsequent protests that have sprung up all over the country, and also the...

In an apparent attempt to distract from the very threat of foreign intervention by states like Russia to help Donald Trump win in 2020, Attorney General William Barr is making up bullshit about the...

This is an encouraging sign. Nine term Iowa congressman Steve King, who spoke of drug dealers with “calves the size of cantaloupes, running drugs across the Mexican border” and how there “were 100 of them for every valedictorian” has finally done himself in. The man was the poster child for divisive, racist rhetoric. He will not be running for Congress this year and most likely his political career is done. That is good news. King has been talking white supremacist drivel for years, but in January, 2019, he finally crossed the line, even for the GOP. New Civil Rights Movement: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” he asked in a New York Times interview, ending any question of where he stands, and branding him a white supremacist. n 2018 King met with representatives of a far-right party in Austria — and used the financial backing of a Holocaust memorial group to do so. The following year, in August, King asked, if not for rape and incest, “would there be any population left?” The man’s public career was a compendium of these dreadful non sequiturs. He lost his House committee assignments in 2019 after his now famous Western civilization crack. This is a hopeful sign. It would be so nice if Iowa would clean house entirely. Joni Ernst needs to go, and the governor, Kim Reynolds needs to go.

"I can't breathe," Vice President Joe Biden began in a powerful and presidential speech Tuesday morning in Philadelphia. "I can't breathe. George Floyd's last words, but they didn't die with him." The Democratic candidate...

From the first night in Minneapolis, it’s been clear that many of the most violent incidents in the protests have a single source: police. Again and again, video has demonstrated images of police firing...

Civil rights advocates applauded a victory for voting rights Monday after a federal judge denied a right-wing group's request to restrict the use of absentee ballots in Virginia. The Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under...

While Donald Trump spent some of his weekend in an underground White House bunker—possibly to protect him from protesters outside, but more likely because his aides hoped his phone couldn't get cell reception there—challenger...

Sen. Bernie Sanders over the weekend blasted Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for continuing to delay the passage of an urgently needed economic relief package even as the U.S. death toll from the...

Nancy Pelosi appeared on Andrea Mitchell Report and made sure not to be hoodwinked by Trump's message of the day and instead made the point she wanted to make. She illustrates how Democrats can...

The events of this week have been heartbreaking and distressing not because they were unusual, but because they were all too usual.  There is no simple solution to the cancer of 400 years of...