The federal death penalty in America, unused since 2003, is plainly constitutional. The most conservative Supreme Court in 80 years certainly will say so when next asked. So there is every reason to think that in the next year or so the federal “machinery of death” will begin to churn …
Read More »If Elected, Bernie Sanders Will Reveal What the Government Knows About Aliens
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, promised the host that he would expose what the government may know about aliens because his wife Jane would insist he do so. Rogan asked how a possible future President Sanders would handle what some …
Read More »Add Elizabeth Warren to the List of Democrats Willing to Call Trump a White Supremacist
Democratic candidate and senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren told the New York Times on Wednesday, “Yes,” when asked if she thought President Donald Trump was a white supremacist. The candidate went on to say that Trump “has given aid and comfort to white supremacists,” adding, “He’s done the wink and …
Read More »Democrats Are Finally Calling Out Trump's White Nationalism for What It Is
President Trump and Republicans have blamed the media, the internet, video games, mental health, and a lack of prayer in schools for the mass shooting epidemic in the United States, which was brought back into focus over the weekend after shootings in El Paso and Dayton that left at least …
Read More »The Trump Administration's Revival of Federal Executions Is a Cynical Election-Year Move
This story was first published by the Brennan Center for Justice. The only surprising part of the Trump administration’s choice to restart federal executions is that it took the president this long to make it. As a matter of pure politics, Donald Trump would probably like nothing more than to …
Read More »World Cup Champion Megan Rapinoe Says Trump 'Divides So He Can Conquer'
Soccer star Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of the World Cup Champion women’s team, stopped by Meet the Press to discuss equal pay and her thoughts about President Donald Trump. The conversation began with equal pay. The US Women’s National Team has filed a lawsuit to earn an equal amount of money …
Read More »Court Blocks Chunk of Border Wall Funds, Citing Trump's Remarks as a Reason
President Donald Trump‘s attempts to fund his much-touted border wall were thwarted, at least partially, by a Friday evening ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam in Sierra Club v. Trump, Politico reported. The Sierra Club took Trump to court after he declared a national emergency and tried to …
Read More »Yes, Trump's Tariffs Are Still Hurting Americans — No, He Still Doesn't Care
Back in 2018, President Trump slapped tariffs on several imported products and raw materials. The taxes were imposed mostly in an effort to force foreign nations to renegotiate their trade deals with the United States, about which Trump has complained repeatedly. Most significant were the tariffs placed on imported steel …
Read More »Joe Biden Officially Enters the 2020 Race
WASHINGTON — After months of hinting and deliberation, after endless will-he-or-won’t-he stories, and after a potential campaign announcement in Charlottesville, Virginia, was leaked to the media and then scrapped, Joe Biden has made it official: He’s running for president. The former vice president and Democratic senator from Delaware announced his …
Read More »What's Wrong With Earth Day
Today is Earth Day, a moment when children all over the world are taught valuable lessons about the wonders of the planet we live on and editorial writers who spend the rest of the year ignoring or mis-representing environmental issues and climate change feel compelled to say something sentimental about …
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