“Politics has never been a place for sissies,” Jim Jordan told an Ohio sports magazine a few years back. For a quarter-century, since he first won a seat in the state legislature while coaching wrestling at Ohio State, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus has built his entire political …
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President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy has ripped thousands of children – some as young as 3 months old – from their migrant parents. Trump claims his new executive order will suspend child/parent separations, in favor of family detention at federal internment camps. But the administration has given contradictory accounts of …
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Alexander Nix, the ousted CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the now-defunct data firm that worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run, made his long-awaited return to Parliament on Wednesday. It was Nix’s first appearance in front of U.K. lawmakers since Cambridge Analytica’s allegedly illegal data practices were revealed to the world, …
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Andrew Oneschuk and Jeremy Himmelman had been living in Tampa, Florida, for two weeks when, on Friday, May 19th, 2017, their roommate Devon Arthurs picked up an AK-47 rifle and shot them at close range. Oneschuk had just turned 18. Himmelman was 22. They’d been staying in a lush gated …
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Thomas Piketty, the French economist whose 2013 bestseller Capital in the 21st Century awoke upscale Americans to the shocking news that their economic system was not working for everyone, has written a new paper exposing more uncomfortable truths. Piketty’s new essay, called Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right, studied electoral trends …
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With Conor Lamb clinging to a tight lead in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, Democrats appear to have finally broken through in a special House election, flipping a district that president Donald Trump won by nearly 20 points in 2016. Seen as a referendum on the president’s performance, Tuesday’s outcome is raising …
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There is a revolt brewing in West Virginia politics. Last Friday Lissa Lucas, an author and celebrated backyard chicken farmer from Cairo, in the northwestern part of the state, brought the fight to the floor of the state capitol. The House of Delegates Judiciary Committee was hearing comments on House …
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