When a hardline conservative like Liz Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney—who was known as Darth Vader—is too moderate for her party, something has gone radically wrong with the Republicans. Cheney is Republican royalty. She is the third-ranking...
Progressives are over the moon with the record number of judges that President Biden and Senate Democrats have confirmed this year, a good news story that Democrats should be shouting from the rafters. Biden has gotten more lower court...
Pre-teen pregnancy—yes, even a girl as young as 10—happens. And it’s not the rare occurrence the anti-abortion absolutists would have you believe.
The New York Times found in Texas state records that just in 2021, more than 200 children (defined...
Uneventful, that’s how the arraignment of an ex-president went down in Miami Tuesday afternoon. And the second-most important person involved with the case wasn’t even there. That would be Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who has been controversial...
What happens when an orthodox Jew, a devout Muslim, and an orthodox Christian go behind the gates for 13 days? The punch line is they produced the only peace treaty that has stood the test of time. That’s how...
With election forecasters predicting enough close races will break for the Democrats, Republican hopes of regaining control of the Senate now appear dashed. Polls close at 7 p.m. in the Northeast, and if Democrats win seats in Massachusetts, Connecticut,...
Not every freshman member of Congress lands a 60 Minutes interview in her first week on the job, so kudos to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for propelling herself onto the national scene with such gusto and willingly accepting...
When Barack Obama took office in January 2009, white supremacists were fragmented and without charismatic leaders. That quickly changed with the arrival of Richard Spencer, Matt Heimbach and Milo Yiannopoulos, a generation of new leaders who created and captured...
The more we learn about what went on behind the scenes during the critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the more Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar had emerged as a rare and unlikely hero pushing the...
Attorney Kathryn Kimball Mizelle just landed a lifetime seat on the federal court at age 33. She’s a card-carrying member of the Federalist Society and the youngest of the already young Trump judges, a lady-in-waiting for a future Republican...