Georgia’s GOP Primary Is Taking Crazy to a New Level
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to see just how politically polarized America is right now, take a look at Georgia. Stacey Abrams, a black woman who has earned endorsements from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, won the Democratic primary for governor—and in November she’ll face whichever Republican wins a runoff…
Pruitt Is Gone. His Replacement Continues His Destructive Work.
A hand covered in wet coal ash from the Dan River, which was contaminated after a spill in North CarolinaGerry Broome/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency rolled back Obama-era regulations that had protected drinking water from being contaminated with coal ash, the toxic byproduct of…
Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities
Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia in 2013.AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Under the alias Cynthia Murphy, Russian spy Lydia Guryeva…
Republicans Have Mostly Stayed Loyal to Their Party In the Trump Era
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Whenever the topic of Donald Trump’s continuing popularity among Republicans comes up, somebody asks if maybe it’s just an artifact of the polling. If moderates are abandoning the Republican Party because of Trump, then simple arithmetic says that most of the folks who are left…
How Brett Kavanaugh Could Cripple the Next Democratic President
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh walks up the Capitol steps with Vice President Mike Pence. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In February 2017, Brett Kavanaugh traveled to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. It was four days after President Donald Trump had…
More than 400 Parents Separated from Their Children Were Potentially Deported, Trump Administration Claims
Cory Morse/MLive.com/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Federal authorities believe that 463 parents separated from children over the age of 5 at the southern border were “not in [the] U.S.” as of Monday, July 23—potentially indicating that hundreds of parents have been deported despite a federal order to reunify families last month. Government lawyers…