Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who served Illinois’ 11th Congressional District and later the 16th from 2011 to early this year, is one of the Republican Party’s most significant truth tellers. On Monday night, Kinzinger spoke in Chicago at a meeting organized by The ...
by Lorraine Ali The churn of local politics rarely makes national news unless the outlet happens to be C-SPAN, but headlines, history and careers were made during proceedings at Tennessee’s State Capitol on Thursday when a GOP supermajority voted to expel two of three Democratic ...
Right after a 28-year-old shot six people to death at a small Christian school, Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, emoted on camera. “Three precious little kids lost their lives,” he said with sad resignation, “and I believe three adults.” Burchett then defended the ...
Pipeline’s pros can’t outweigh its cons A guest essay in Sunday’s Dominion Post (3-26-23) extolling the benefits of finishing the Mountain Valley Pipeline is so glaringly misleading that a response is required. The remaining unbuilt section would cross the Blue Ridge ...
by David A. Hopkins Gun politics in the U.S. demonstrates that a popular majority does not always get its way. Even though most Americans support stricter gun-safety laws, proposals for major new regulations reliably face impassable obstacles in Congress. The standard ...
by LZ Granderson Sandy Hook is the mass shooting I hear mentioned most often when people talk about the moment they knew nothing would change. A madman murders 26 people — most of them 6 or 7 years old — and Congress was still unable to pass substantive gun or mental ...