Politics

At the height of his pre-election push to make Americans fear a caravan of Central American migrants making their way through Mexico, President Trump held a press conference during which he suggested it may be necessary to use lethal force against asylum-seekers once they reach the U.S. border. “They want …

Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema has officially captured a Republican-held Senate seat in Arizona. Sinema, who at 41 is one of the youngest women ever elected to the Senate, also happens to be the first Arizona Democrat elected to the Senate in over 30 years.The results, which took almost a full week …

When the truth is inconvenient, make up your own facts. That seems to be President Donald Trump‘s motto. The president posted a tweet Sunday morning referring to a poll that does not exist, as noticed by many journalists on Twitter. Of course, Trump is a president who is well-known for …

There are three things to know about Dana Rohrabacher. 1) He thinks home-sellers should be able to discriminate against gay people. 2) He once blamed climate change on dinosaur flatulence. 3) House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught in 2016 saying: “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and …

Were it a government plot — a dazzling scheme to keep the public stupid — QAnon would be a great achievement in the otherwise relatively undistinguished history of the CIA. Alas, it is not. Like most things these days, if it seems like 4D chess, it’s probably just stupid. So …

President Trump began his Thursday morning by blaming the attempted assassination of his political adversaries on the media. He’d said as much the night before at a rally in Wisconsin, but his early-morning tweet seems to be inspired by a New York Times report about the president’s careless cell phone …

Richard Linklater and the Fire Ted Cruz PAC have now teamed up on four commercials designed to convince Texans heading to the polls on November 6th that the incumbent senator is not the man to represent their state. Each of the ads have featured nothing more than an extremely Texan …

My younger sister lives in the Atlanta area, and, like any annoying brother, I’ve been hounding her about something. I texted her this week to make sure that she is registered to vote. Not because I’m worried that she’ll be one of these Millennials Who Doesn’t Vote, but because she …

Taylor Swift broke her career-long political silence via Instagram on Sunday when she endorsed a pair of Tennessee Democratsand encouraged her 112 million followers to register to vote. Since then, the non-partisan website Swift pointed to, Vote.org, received a massive spike in voter registrations nationwide, Buzzfeed reports. “We are up …

Actress-comedian Amy Schumer was arrested and detained in Washington, D.C. ,Thursday as thousands of people descended on the Hart Senate Office Building to protest the possible appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, per MSNBC. Holding a “We Believe Anita Hill” sign, Schumer joined others in condemning Kavanaugh, whose …