For the past few decades, the GOP's interests aligned harmoniously with those of corporations. Businesses amassed wealth while staying out of social issues. The GOP, in turn, rewarded businesses with tax cuts. The status quo was fine.
This state of affai ...[
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said Saturday that amid the immediate emergencies of climate change, Covid-19, mass unemployment, and homelessness, congressional Democrats cannot afford to dampen their infrastructure ambition ...[
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On Wednesday, POLITICO reported that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the famously QAnon-sympathetic conspiracy theorist congresswoman who lost her House committee assignments after social media activity endorsing the execution of prominent Democrats i ...[
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Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta are preparing for the release of their forthcoming book, "Nightmare Scenario," which aims to highlight former President Donald Trump's disastrous COVID-19 response since the onset of the pand ...[
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The additions also included some new proposals, aimed mostly at making it harder to vote — notably, one proposal would make it so that Georgians can file an unlimited number of challenges to “the qualifications of any person applying to register to vo ...[
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There's still much that's unknown about the shootings in Atlanta on Tuesday night. The suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, appears to have been targeting massage parlors. Eight people have been killed, including six Asian-American women. Early reports ...[
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In a Sunday interview with Axios, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., described former President Trump's hold over the Republican Party as something of a hostage situation.The former President, Graham said, "could make the Republican Party something that nobody ...[
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Trump's financial interests clearly lie in milking the GOP faithful for all he can, as quickly as he can. ...[
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Once upon a time, the Conservative Political Action Conference was a relatively traditional and "mainstream" gathering of many divergent currents on the political right.Fueled by the obsessive racist backlash against Barack Obama's presidency and paranoid ...[
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An 11-year-old boy died on Tuesday in an unheated mobile home in Texas that had lost power during a massive winter storm. His family and officials suspect he had hypothermia.
Cristian Pavon was one of at least 30 people in Texas who died this week as tem ...[
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Millions of people in Texas were plunged into freezing cold and darkness as a major winter storm overwhelmed the stateâs power grid. More than 12 million Texans face water disruptions and have been ordered to boil tap water for safe consumption, and ...[
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