Politics

If you wanted confirmation Republicans plan to turn impeachment into a spectacle, the witness wish list the House Republicans sent to committee chairman Adam Schiff on Saturday makes it clear. The list includes, among others, former vice president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as well as the anonymous whistleblower who …

If you signed up for the Marianne Williamson campaign mailing list earlier this year, you might have gotten an email in early August from an entity called the Williamson Institute; subject: “Summer Sale Now On!” If you opened it, you would have been greeted by a soft-focus portrait of the …

Donald Trump — who has endangered his own presidency by demanding Ukraine and China investigate what he’s called the “corruption” of the Biden family — has announced the site for the U.S.-hosted meeting of the world’s top democracies next June: The Trump Doral golf resort in Miami. Even for Trump, …

President Trump and his allies have leaned on several confusing excuses to defend the president in the wake of the revelation that he solicited Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. One, that the whistleblower complaint that set off the scandal was illegitimate because he or she didn’t have first-hand …

A week afterputting a Republican congressman in his place during a climate hearing in Washington, D.C., teenage activist Greta Thunberg took it to the world leaders gathered in New York on Monday for the United Nations Climate Action Summit, delivering a passionate indictment of their hesitation to take action to …

The California Senate on Tuesday passed a landmark measure that would require companies that rely on a workforce of independent contractors, most notably tech industry giants Uber and Lyft, to classify the people who do labor for them as, get this, “employees.” The bill’s passage could have far-reaching implications on …

John Bolton is no longer President Trump’s national security advisor, and according to John Bolton, the break-up was totally mutual. At 11:58 a.m. on Tuesday, Trump tweeted “I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of …

Walmart may have decided to keep guns on its shelves following the massacre that left 22 dead in one of its El Paso locations earlier this month, but not all firearm retailers are standing pat in response to America’s mass shooting epidemic. Dick’s Sporting Goods has been experimenting with ending …

Curt Schilling, failed businessman, Q-Anon evangelist, collector of Nazi memorabilia, and former Red Sox pitcher, is mulling a run for the House of Representatives. Schilling confirmed to the Arizona Republic he is considering a bid for public office on an anti-immigration platform. “The state is not the state I grew …

Bill McKibben is no stranger to getting arrested for protesting. Usually it’s when he’s protesting fossil fuel companies in response climate change, but on Thursday, the climate activist was arrested along with six others who refused to leave Rep. Elise Stefanik‘s (R-N.Y.) Glen Falls office in a protest of President …