Politics

Last week, scientists learned that 40-foot piles of compacted sea ice — some of the oldest and most durable clusters in the Arctic — are breaking away from the coast of Greenland and drifting out to sea. One meteorologist called it “scary,” but it was hardly unexpected. As the earth’s …

President Trump spent most of Sunday tweeting about the Witch Hunt from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey – nothing out of the ordinary. But just before midnight, Trump smashed the caps lock key and fired off a strongly worded warning to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. “NEVER, EVER THREATEN …

John Dean knows what it’s like for a scandal with the power to destroy a president to stalk the White House. Dean served as White House Counsel under President Nixon and can testify to the enormous toll that lying, deflecting, hiding and obstructing took on him and his colleagues following …

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions hasn’t exactly taken a progressive stance on marijuana since taking office. Not only did the former senator from Alabamarescind an Obama-era policy aimed at curbing sentences for non-violent drug offenses, his understanding of marijuana is trapped squarely in the 1950s. In 2016, Sessions said “good …

As the movement to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to gain traction, President Trump has gleefully co-opted the issue to argue that Democrats are weak on immigration and want to see the United States overrun with violent criminals. In the past week, he’s installed the position into …

The thing that keeps me awake at night is the thought that a kid who is alive tonight might not be alive tomorrow night because they cross paths with somebody with a gun. This is obviously not an irrational fear – it happened at my school. People like Wayne LaPierre, …

Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring from his seat on the Supreme Court, the court announced Wednesday afternoon. According to the release, the 81-year-old will officially step down July 31st. “It has been the greatest honor and privilege to serve our nation in the federal judiciary for 43 years, 30 of …

WASHINGTON – The strange saga of the EPA and its no-bid contract with a Republican consulting firm that specializes in “war room style” media monitoring just got stranger. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) sent a letter on Tuesday to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt demanding more answers for …

As the outcry over the situation at the border swelled to a deafening pitch Monday morning, President’s Trump’s mind was elsewhere. In fact, it wasn’t even within Earth’s atmosphere, where it would have been bound by pesky forces like gravity and reality. While contemplating the infinite frontier during a meeting …

Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have released a report of “preliminary findings” about the Trump campaign’s infamous meeting with Russians at Trump Tower seeking “incriminating information on Secretary Clinton.” The report raises more questions than it answers: “We still do not know,” it reads, “the full story about the …