Mike Lee, apparently, has some concerns about democracy. This could be argued of pretty much any Republican lawmaker who has endorsed the party’s voter suppression efforts and total supplication to an authoritarian president who won’t commit to a peaceful transition of power. But on Thursday morning, the senator from Utah …
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WASHINGTON — On a typical morning, I, an atypically voracious consumer of news, will read several newspapers, devour much of Apple News, spend unhealthy amounts of time scanning Twitter, and monitor trending political stories on sites such as Memeorandum and Political Wire. By 9 or 10 in the morning, I …
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Hackers from three countries — Russia, China, and Iran — are attempting to infiltrate campaign staffers, think tanks and consultants in order to influence the U.S. presidential election, according to Microsoft. The software company shared a blog post saying that Microsoft detected cyberattacks “targeting people and organizations involved in the …
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Joe Biden accepted his party’s nomination for president on Thursday night in a speech delivered from Wilmington, Del. The former vice president, in the biggest speech of his life, positioned himself as an “ally of the light not of the darkness,” in contrast to President Trump. “Character is on the …
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O n a bright July morning, in the tiny community of King Salmon on Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Nanci Morris Lyon bustles around her docked fishing boat. The water beneath is clear 15 feet down, like looking through glass. Up the slope behind Bear Trail Lodge, which Lyon has owned and …
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QAnon supporters are overjoyed after Marjorie Taylor Greene won a congressional primary runoff in her home state of Georgia on Tuesday, a victory that virtually guarantees her a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Greene is a supporter of QAnon, the conspiracy theory that purports that President Trump is …
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So far three Republicans have made complete fools of themselves following the death of civil rights hero John Lewis on Friday. On Saturday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis mishandled the somber occasion by callously brushing off a reporter’s question about Lewis’ passing during a coronavirus press conference. Senator Marco Rubio, also …
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In June, President Trump sat in the Oval Office for one of his periodic interviews-turned-airing-of-grievances. When the conversation turned to the 2020 election, Trump singled out what he called the “biggest risk” to his bid for a second term. It was not the mounting death toll from COVID-19, or further …
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If the COVID-19 disaster has demonstrated one thing, it’s the terrible human toll of not following the science. Had the advice of U.S. public health experts been followed and mask-wearing and social distancing been required early in the pandemic, tens of thousands of lives would likely have been saved. But …
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President Trump is scrambling to place blame for the violence now sweeping the country as law enforcement clashes with protesters in major cities over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. On Sunday, the president announced on Twitter that antifa, a loose coalition of anti-facist protesters, would …
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