Politics

President Donald Trump came within a hair’s width of death on Tuesday, when an escalator at the United Nations headquarters briefly stalled in an act of intentional sabotage, leaving him exposed to the mercy of a theoretical assassin’s bullet. At least that’s how Trump’s supporters and right-wing commentators are imagining …

While the United States is mired in one Donald Trump controversy after another, much of the rest of the industrialized world is steadily moving into the future. Other nations can’t ignore America, but they can try to figure out new ways to proceed with less American involvement, and many of …

Thirty-six years ago, the American journalist Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first mass-market book about climate change. The book warned, from the perspective of a lover of nature, about the dangers posed by a warming planet: “Changes in our world which can affect us can happen in …

President Donald Trump feels he is qualified to tell American women that if they take Tylenol during pregnancy they might give their children autism. The declaration came during a joint press event on Monday. Trump — flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Administrator for …

Three individuals were shot at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)field office in Dallas on Wednesday morning. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that “ICE law enforcement was not injured.” One migrant detainee was killed and two more are in critical condition, according to DHS. In a preliminary …

Kamala Harris praised Disney‘s decision to return Jimmy Kimmel to the air during an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC last night. “Talk about the power being with the people and the people making that clear with their checkbooks as it relates to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel,” Harris told …

There’s a new centrist Democratic think tank in Washington, D.C., and its leaders think progressive groups have too much influence on the Democratic Party politicians who instinctively ignore the left. The nation’s capital already has plenty of organizations designed to marginalize the largely powerless left. The Searchlight Institute intends to …

An Indiana educator — fired after being targeted by the right-wing X account Libs of TikTok and the attorney general of Indiana for making private remarks on Facebook about the killing of Charlie Kirk — is suing Ball State University for violating her right to free speech. Brought in conjunction …

Kamala Harris returned to The View on Tuesday, Sept. 23, for the first time since she stopped by the show during her presidential campaign last year. That was the day she was asked what she would have done differently than Joe Biden, to which she replied, “There’s not a thing …

“Absolutist,” “hostile,” “Orwellian,” “full extermination,” “cleanse public schools.” These are some of the words and phrases an attorney used to argue in favor of imposing Christian prayers on students at public high school football games in what would become a landmark 2000 Supreme Court case. The attorney’s argument in the …