Politics

Kamala Harris is out on the road promoting her new book, visiting universities and bookstores around the country. What started as a fairly ordinary book tour has turned into something much more dramatic. During one of her recent events, a protester shouted at her in anger, calling her a “right-wing...

I recently had a small health scare nothing serious, but enough to remind me that I’m getting older. When you’re close to 80, these things start to happen. Thankfully, I’m fine for now. But the experience made me think about age, health, and someone who’s almost the same age as...

Former President Donald Trump faced two major legal defeats on Thursday, as federal judges in Illinois and New York both ruled against actions taken by his administration.In Illinois, a federal appeals court stopped the Trump administration from sending National Guard troops into the state. In New York, another judge ordered...

For the first time since President Donald Trump approved a series of deadly strikes on boats believed to be run by Venezuelan drug cartels, survivors have been found alive. Two men were rescued from the Caribbean Sea after their vessel was destroyed by a U.S. military operation on Thursday. Until...

In a recent interview with The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was asked a tough question  twice about what the Supreme Court could actually do if Donald Trump refused to obey one of its rulings. Barrett, who joined the Court in 2020 after...

On Tuesday in Chicago, America got a frightening look at what its future could become. Federal agents, dressed like soldiers and carrying military weapons, rammed into a civilian car on 105th Street using a maneuver that Chicago police themselves are banned from using. Then they fired tear gas into a...

JD Vance, the U.S. Vice President, recently let slip what sounds like a new and unsettling plan from Donald Trump during an interview with conservative host Charlie Kirk, according to a report from The Daily Beast. While talking on The Charlie Kirk Show, Vance said that the Trump administration is...

Donald Trump often talks about his past experiences, both good and bad. One event he keeps returning to is the 2022 FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. It’s something that still clearly bothers him deeply. He has long described the raid as an “unlawful witch hunt” by the...

A federal judge in Rhode Island says the Trump administration ignored his order that stopped them from blocking FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) funds for places that wouldn’t follow Trump’s immigration policies.Judge William Smith had already ruled in September that the government couldn’t make disaster aid dependent on local governments...

A Democratic political strategist named Simon Rosenberg recently shared his opinion that former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are in a much worse political situation than they are letting on publicly. As Congress struggles to agree on a new federal budget, disagreements are beginning to split the Republican...