Politics

Last week, as a freshman class filtered through the halls of Congress for orientation, Fox News sounded the alarm about four of the elected members and the “radical new Democratic ideas” they’d come to advance: free health care, free college, the abolishment of ICE and an infrastructure project designed to …

The Georgia gubernatorial race won’t be decided until at least Friday evening, and Democrats are doing all they can to ensure sure every vote is counted before the results are certified. On Wednesday, Stacey Abrams partnered with the Georgia Democratic Party to release a TV commercial encouraging voters to share …

Americans tuning into Fox & FriendsMonday morning may have borne witness to a commercial for a product called the “Trumpy Bear,” a stuffed bear with a white collar, white cuffs, red tie and Trump’s “trademark” coif. You can also pull an American flag out of the bear’s ass. “God bless …

With just one day until the 2018 election, Beto O’Rourkehas debuted a new ad featuring Texas’ elder statesman, Willie Nelson. The country legend headlined a free concert for the Senate hopeful in September that drew an estimated 55,000 people to Austin’s Auditorium Shores, where certified voter registrars were sprinkled throughout …

President Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the capacity for empathy and is totally uninterested in providing anything resembling moral leadership. In Puerto Rico, he shot a roll of paper towels into a throng of hurricane survivors like it was a basketball. While meeting with the families of the shooting …

Marijuana is now legal across Canada, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill are using the historic occasion to highlight yet another example of how the Trump administration is embarrassing America on the global stage. A bipartisan group of lawmakers are sending a letter to the administration today …

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) gave a little performance on the Senate floor last night. As Sasse and his colleagues waited to receive the FBI’s report on its investigation into the sexual assault claims made against Brett Kavanaugh, the Republican from Nebraska took to the podium to talk about how friends …

For at least as long as Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated for a Supreme Court seat, he has been justifiably considered to be a potential danger to reproductive freedom. Since he represents a possible fifth and decisive vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Kavanaugh poses a threat to the future …

Update, 2:30 p.m.: Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) struck a deal with Democrats on the committee, declaring, as he voted Thursday afternoon to advance Brett Kavanaugh‘s nomination to the floor of the Senate that he would not support Kavanaugh in the floor vote unless there was an FBI investigation, lasting no …

On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his wife Heidi had reserved a table at Fiola, a fancy Italian spot on Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks from the White House. Before the senator could even take his coat off, demonstrators disrupted his date night. “We believe survivors!” they chanted, protesting …