Politics

Donald Trump doubled down on his comparison to Russian opposition leaderAlexei Navalny, whodied on Fridayin an arctic penal colony and is widely believed to have been murdered by the government of Vladimir Putin. When speaking at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday evening, Trump grotesquely likened a civil fraud …

Pay no attention to the discredited informant facing prison time. GOP officials were scrambling Wednesday after Alexander Smirnov, a key witness in the impeachment proceedings against President Biden, was accused of being informed by Russian intelligence. Smirnov was arrested last Thursday after Special Counsel David Weiss charged him on suspicion …

Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Ryan Walters has already made headlines for sending context-free porn to his fellow lawmakers. He’s now accusing one of the school districts under his jurisdiction of supporting the exposure of children to what he describes as “pornography” in schools. What horrendous, degenerate, pornographic display of hedonism is …

A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling declaring fertilized embryos as “extrauterine children” is already impacting fertility clinics across the state, with one of the largest hospitals temporarily ceasing in-vitro fertilization treatments. The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s health system said Wednesday that it is pausing IVF treatments in the wake …

Late last week, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump privately told his allies he backs a 16-week national abortion ban with some exceptions. Inside the Trump campaign, the news was immediately met with deep annoyance, anger, and a scramble for damage control, two people familiar with the matter …

Conservative activist and judicial puppetmaster Leonard Leo is building out his dark-money network. A counsel at one of Leo’s primary nonprofits recently registered two new dark-money organizations with subsidiaries whose names just so happen to be very similar to groups through which Leo has run some of his most effective …

In the final three days of his presidency, Donald Trump had something weighing heavily on his mind, causing him to reverse decisions rapidly as he swore angrily in the White House. The source of the then-outgoing president’s anger had nothing to do with his failed attempts to subvert the 2020 …

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was temporarily suspended from X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday after announcing she would continue her dead husband’s fight against Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian government. Since Navalny’s death on Friday, Yulia Navalnaya has led a public campaign to pressure the Russian government for the …

T roy, Michigan, is quintessential suburbia: strip malls, banks with drive-thrus, and jewelry stores. Though just 30 minutes outside of Detroit, Troy feels a world away from the Motor City, with its blocks of boarded-up houses and abandoned stores. The disparate environments speak to the systemic inequality that brought me …

Nikki Haley doubled down on her refusal to withdraw from the Republican presidential primary despite facing virtually insurmountable odds in her bid to defeat former President Donald Trump. “Some of you, a few of you in the media, came here today to see if I’m dropping out of the race. …