The Aedes lives and breeds in places where people are, laying its eggs in a few droplets of stagnant water at the bottom of a forgotten beer can and then spending its short life hiding under beds and ...

After several sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s powerful and brutal testimony on Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is showing how seriously it’s ...

During Donald Trump’s wild post-midterms press conference on Wednesday, the president named and shamed Republicans who lost, called a black reporter racist, and, most notably, got into it with CNN’s ...

Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson went on an openly racist rant on Monday night warning viewers about “bewilderingly fast” demographic changes that are happening all over the country. Carlson—who has a ...

Washington Governor Jay Inslee, whose campaign was focused on encouraging badly needed actions to confront the climate crisis, ended his presidential bid Wednesday. “I have to tell you, look, I’ve ...

Three days before New York’s primary, a millionaire real estate tycoon has spent big to help Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney in his race against Zephyr Teachout to secure the Democratic nomination for ...

Representative Jared Polis, an openly gay Congressman from Colorado, is projected to win the state’s gubernatorial election tonight, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected governor of a ...

Earlier today, Politico published a story under the headline “Just Another Day in Fucknutsville.” The story, by founding editor John F. Harris, is a long treatise about days gone by, in which a ...

Newly released emails show that while the Trump administration was publicly promising to reunite the families it had separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials had no idea how they would ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices seem down to fuck over immigrants and the communities they live in come 2020, based on their tone in Tuesday’s oral arguments over the question of whether a ...

A typhoon that strikes, say, Taiwan, is bad for Taiwan. It is also bad for anywhere that buys things from Taiwan. Multiply that concept out to the entire world, and supercharge the typhoons and ...

When it was first rumored that actress and activist Cynthia Nixon might challenge Andrew Cuomo, the governor laughed it off. On a conference call with reporters earlier this month, Cuomo said that “if ...