Very broadly then, the center appears to be holding. And while I yield to no man in my visceral contempt for Donald J. Trump, I’ll be very surprised if Congress enacts his anti-community budget cuts. ...
According to a new report by The Huffington Post, House Speaker Paul Ryan may be facing a new political coup from House conservatives. And even if anti-Ryan conservatives don't have the votes to force Ryan ...
The decision by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to abstain from standing for the national anthem in protest of what he sees as a failure of the U.S. government to uphold its end of ...
"I joined the Party of Lincoln and the Party of Reagan. I will leave the Party of Trump."
House Speaker Paul Ryan had a good run in his first few weeks on the job, but that doesn't mean the honeymoon will last.
Each week we round up the looniest examples of right-wing bigotry, idiocy, and bizarre behavior in our “This Week In Crazy” column. Now it’s time to take stock of the entire year — which gave ...
Each Friday we round up the looniest examples of right-wing bigotry, idiocy, and bizarre behavior in our "This Week In Crazy" column. Now, as we reach the end of December, it's time to take stock ...
The lesson here: If the cause is made out to be holy and sacrosanct, then not even the most dedicated leaders are safe from the true believers.
Just when you thought the far-right fringe couldn't possibly connect abortion with the stock market, or equate the LGBT Pride flag with a white supremacist symbol, they just, well, go ahead and do that. It's ...
A study by two sociologists supposedly proved that Republicans have happier marriages — but a much larger study showed that the country's reddest counties have the highest divorce rates.
Much of the Forest Service's swelling bill for suppressing wildfires comes from the rising cost of protecting residences in the "wildland-urban interface." About 16 million houses were built in fire-prone rural areas over the last ...