Congress Begins Public Impeachment Hearings
In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.
In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.
Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.
The Trump Administration is considering banning flavored electronic cigarettes. This would be a a bad idea.
Can the media fairly parse the statements of those running against President ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’?
An Oklahoma state court Judge has handed down what many are hailing as a landmark ruling related to the opioid crisis, but there’s reason to be skeptical about his conclusions.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.
David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.
Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.
Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.
Is the Sanders-Warren position too extreme for the general election?
Former Congressman Joe Sestak is the 24th Democrat to enter the race for President.
Maine has become the eighth state to pass a law allowing terminally ill the choice to bring their lives to a dignified end.
A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.
Mitch McConnell has had an unsurprising change of heart on the issue of Senate consideration of Supreme Court nominees in a Presidential election year.
Bart Starr, who led the Green Bay Packers to five N.F.L. Championships in the pre-Super Bowl era and in Super Bowls I and II, has died at the age of 85.
In a first of its kind move, voters in Denver have voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.
Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is the latest entrant into the race for the Democratic nomination for President, and the field isn’t done growing.
He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready. But is the Democratic Party going to buy what Joe Biden is selling?
It’s an interesting idea, although one fraught with moral hazard.
Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.
It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court today and appears to have fully recovered from her December surgery.
The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.
Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?
Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.
The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.
For the first time in her twenty-five years on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing oral argument this morning.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery to remove cancerous nodes from a lung, but reports seem to point to a quick recovery.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving state laws banning Medicaid reimbursement for non-abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood.
Once again, people on the left are complaining that Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t retire when they wanted her to.
The former Governor and Presidential candidate, and current Ambassador to Russia, reveals his diagnosis of Stage One Melanoma.
One of the longest-lasting characters on The Simpsons may not be long for this world, but before we write him off perhaps we ought to stop and think.
One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.
Thanks in large part to an aggressive public health education program and vaccination, Australia is on course to effectively eradicate cervical cancer.
In an ordinary year with an ordinary candidate New Jersey should be a slam dunk for Democrats. This, however, is not an ordinary year.
A new report from The New York Times is likely to cause President Trump’s war on the Justice Department to heat up.
Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.