This week, the Kansas Senate voted by a wide margin to expand the state’s Medicaid coverage. A majority of Democrats supported the bill, as might be expected, but so did a majority of Republicans. That the vote was both bipartisan Read More …
The Inciter-in-Chief has outdone himself. In an interview with the Times of London and Germany's Bild published a few days ago, Donald Trump called NATO "obsolete," described the European Union as a German scheme to get the best of the United States, Read More …
On February 11, 2011, shortly after 3 P.M., President Obama stepped before a microphone in the Grand Foyer of the White House. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had just resigned after weeks of mass protests, in Tahrir Square and nationwide, and Read More …
On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump picked his first foreign-policy fight—and signalled who’s currently in charge of those decisions. Some seven hours before the former ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson was sworn in as Secretary of State, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn strode Read More …
Watch closely next time LeBron James steps on the court for the Cleveland Cavaliers. You’ll see not only the usual flurry of quantifiable activity—points, rebounds, assists, improbable trailing blocks in finely timed bunches—but also those motions and habits that make Read More …
Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Majority Leader, went on Sean Hannity's show on Thursday night and tried to talk up the awful health-care bill that his party had just rushed through two committees. His message was aimed at the ultra-conservative Read More …
“Does anyone really believe that story?” Donald Trump said, at his first press conference in more than five months. He was referring to a dossier that BuzzFeed had published the night before, which contained unproved allegations of material that the Read More …
If there is a single person who made Paul Ryan the Speaker of the House, it is probably Mark Meadows. Back in 2015, Meadows, a former restaurant owner who, in 2012, was elected to represent the most conservative district in Read More …
In January, 1993, the New York City Council moved unanimously to erect a sign at the intersection of Bleecker and Mott streets designating the small corner on the eastern edge of the West Village as Margaret Sanger Square. The bill, introduced Read More …
One of the strangest sentences in American law comes from Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. “Under the First Amendment,” he wrote, in 1974, “there is no such thing as a false idea.” That is not a decree that the world Read More …