In my many, many posts about RFK Jr. and his disastrous tenure as Secretary of HHS, there are two themes that have hopefully broken through all the noise. The first is that Kennedy is a miserable communicator, in a way that is totally purposeful. He talks out of both sides of his mouth all the...

There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who shot up Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. There is plenty of debate about the moral atrocity that is a firing...

How right-wing podcasters are leveraging a tragic Massachusetts case to push for patriarchy, end no-fault divorce, and repeal the 19th Amendment.

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

The MAGA Cultural Revolution is exhausting.

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

Tennessee paused executions after Christa Pike survived two doses of a lethal injection.

Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, how is the U.S. government performing in terms of human rights? Listening to politicians, it can be difficult to know. On one hand, some have pointed to a number of potential...

Alt: Casablanca scene: Captain Renault is pretending to be shocked to find gambling in Rick's cafe as a pretence to shut it down because the Nazis asked, right before he's handed his winnings for the evening.

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To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il