by Robert Reich During a press event last week at an Upper East Side restaurant, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that COVID-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people.” He said that “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and ...
by Jonathan Bernstein The House bill that sets Pentagon policies for the next year, which began as mundane and bipartisan, passed on Friday on a party-line vote. The bill received a 58-to-1 vote in committee, but radical Republicans offered dozens of amendments on such issues as ...
It began shortly after President Biden’s inauguration. First, there were whispers and what seemed like slander on far-right websites and social media that the president was suffering from cognitive decline. His subsequent slurred speech, his trips and falls, and his confusion even while ...
The sane world agrees. You don’t get more bizarre than Ron DeSantis’ latest foray into culture war lunacy. We speak of that campaign video that bashes gay America while flashing a picture of Brad Pitt as a hunky Achilles. What homophobic crackhead made this ad? The Florida ...
by Jackie Calmes Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has overturned longtime precedents to eliminate a federal abortion right, gun controls, clean water safeguards and now affirmative action has ...
The decision by Kanawha County Commissioner Ben Salango not to enter the race for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2024 offers insight into just how challenging the political landscape is in West Virginia now for Democrats. Salango was the party’s nominee in 2020, ...