Politics

Ever since 2012, when Donald Trump wrote a string of tweets about how Robert Pattinson should dump her, Kristen Stewart has occupied a curious space in the conservative imagination. It was being reminded of those comments, as she revealed in Rolling Stone‘s March cover story, that inspired Stewart to come …

Data broker company Near Intelligence has been accused of tracking user visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations and handing over that data to an anti-abortion ad campaign. In a letter from Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) to the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Wyden demanded that federal regulators …

House Republicans have voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, after botching their first attempt last week.The vote was 214-213. Despite Republicans in the lower chamber finally delivering on their long-standing promise to impeach Mayorkas, there is little chance the DHS secretary will actually be convicted by …

New York’s third congressional district has elected a replacement for serial liar and indicted former Congressman George Santos. Democrat Tom Suozzi won the New York race to succeed Santos, beating Republican Mazi Pilip, the Associated Press reported. Santos, who was expelled from the House of Representatives in December, is one …

It’s Valentine’s Day and love money is on Donald Trump’s mind. The former president penned a “love letter” to his Valentine, his wife and former First Lady Melania Trump … in the form of a fundraising email to prospective donors. “Dear Melania, I LOVE YOU!” it read. Even after every …

The Senate passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan in a bipartisan vote early Tuesday morning — but like pretty much everything these days, it seems destined to end up in the House GOP’s legislative graveyard. In a 70-22 vote, a rare supermajority in the upper …

Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is here — and both his attorneys and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office are girding themselves for the man who could be standing between Trump and the first-ever criminal conviction of an American president: Michael Cohen. The hush money case, which revolves around Trump’s …

Robert Kennedy Jr. apologized for an ad his super PAC ran during the Super Bowl on Sunday after his cousin, Bobby Shriver, bashed how the ad used the family’s faces to promote the anti-vax candidate’s “deadly health care views.” “I’m so sorry if the Super Bowl advertisement caused anyone in …

Donald Trump’s fascistic rhetoric about how immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country, as well as the GOP’s embrace of the “great replacement theory,” are repellent to many Americans. But for a startling number of people, new survey results exclusively provided to Rolling Stone reveal, the message that immigrants …

Plenty of American traditions surround Super Bowl Sunday: good food, overproduced commercials, the Puppy Bowl, and having octopi (and other animals) predict the game’s outcome are just a few. But in recent years one tradition has consistently threatened to ruin everyone’s fun, that being right-wingers spending more time fuming about …