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 ...

It’s a dark day in Washington, DC, when the Trump administration is stopped short of speaking more lies. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan’s keynote at a think tank meeting was cut short ...

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 ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was photographed wearing brownface at a gala at his place of employment in 2001. Trudeau was 29 at the time and working as a teacher at a private school, ...

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 ...

Rick Perry, as head of the Department of Energy, is tasked with overseeing America’s vast nuclear arsenal, one capable of blowing up the Earth many times over. He’s also a huge idiot, as evidenced yet ...

Donald Trump is not equipped to solve the epidemic of massive gun violence in our society. This is evidenced by how Trump’s responded to most acts of violence in this country, but also in what he’s ...

Dear Republicans, say it with me: White terr-or-ism. White supremacy. Domestic terrorism. Guns. Hate. Insecurity. Ignorance. Money. Any of these is more appropriate than blaming video games. Top ...

Last week, we published a story showing that Andy Stern, the longtime former leader of one of America’s most prominent unions, is now advising a billionaire-funded charter school group that is ...

Earlier this month, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told reporters that migrants detained at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility she and other representatives visited said they were ...

A new report from NBC contains allegations that children kept in a border facility in Yuma, AZ faced intentional cruelty from border agents, in addition to the indignities and suffering from ...

In a political move that serves no other purpose than to appeal to Florida’s xenophobic Republican base, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Friday that bans sanctuary cities from the state.