The Republican obsession with proving Twitter conspired with Democrats and the FBI against conservatives boomeranged during a House hearing last week, exposing the wispiness of one of the new majority’s favorite made-up scandals. One ex-Twitter executive testified that the platform actually ...
by Sarah E. Wagner, Roy R. Grinker and Joel C. Kuipers In New York City, a woman opens her laptop to a bar graph showing the number of COVID-19 deaths nationwide each month in 2021 and fixes her gaze on April. She tells a researcher: “My mother is one of them.” The graph helps her ...
Come and let us pity white people. They are the real victims here. That, in essence, is the battle cry that’s powered much of American politics for the last 30 years, the last 15 in particular. It has echoed from the halls of government to the set of Fox “News” to the far-flung ...
by Anita Chabria Donny Thomas and I agreed on many things when we spoke at the California Capitol last week. That’s alarming when you consider he’s part of the so-called People’s Convoy that has crisscrossed the nation in recent days protesting coronavirus health measures and ...
U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn seems to have finally struck a nerve with his party. Since he first emerged on the political stage just a couple of years ago, the first-term congressman from western North Carolina has made a name for himself as a far-right extremist and overall embarrassment to ...
It’s shameful that West Virginia’s top election official is repeating debunked conspiracy theories and circulating misinformation. We will address the misinformation in Secretary of State Mac Warner’s recent essay, which you can read in the far-right column on this page, point by ...