This Is What Happens the Minute Roe Is Overturned
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement today. The New Yorker‘s Jeffrey Toobin put it bluntly: Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Abortion will be illegal in twenty states in 18 months. #SCOTUS — Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) June 27, 2018 Sounds outlandish, right? Well, less…
House Overwhelmingly Rejects GOP Immigration Bill
Al Drago/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite a last-minute endorsement from President Donald Trump, the House on Wednesday roundly rejected a comprehensive Republican immigration bill that would have funded a border wall and sought to keep migrant families together despite prosecution. The measure also provided a pathway to citizenship…
Justice Anthony Kennedy Is Retiring
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring after serving 30 years on the Supreme Court. The announcement gives President Donald Trump the opportunity to nominate the second Supreme Court justice of his presidency and sets up an epic political fight over Kennedy’s replacement. Republicans are…
CBO: Republicans Have Blown Up the National Debt Again
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Congressional Budget Office published its latest forecast of the national debt yesterday. Before we get to that, though, let’s take a little trip down memory lane: For the past 40 years, the Republican playbook has been straightforward: they take office, cut taxes on the…
Judge Orders Trump to Reunite Separated Families Within a Month
The civil rights organization National Action Network protests the Trump administration’s policy of family separation in New York on June 23. G. Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to reunite the migrant families it has separated. The preliminary injunction issued on Tuesday evening…
Two New Albums Worth Your While: La Luz and Locate S,1
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. La LuzFloating FeaturesHardly Art Locate S,1Healing ContestSybaritic Peer/Nicey Music Sometimes, the pure, visceral sound of music is so transporting that it’s easy to just switch off the brain and surrender to the mood. Witness, for example, La Luz and Christina Schneider, young veterans who might…