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As he waited in the shadow of a parking garage in Tempe, Arizona, to hear Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak last Thursday evening, John Ward, a longtime Democrat from the deep-red retirement community of Sun City West, told me he “probably”…

On March 22, Elon Musk hosted conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel and US Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) for a discussion on X about the importance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1. It began 36 minutes late and was beset…

Mike Huckabee prepared for his Senate confirmation hearing to be ambassador to Israel by visiting the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens on Sunday. Huckbee’s visit to the shrine of the messianic Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hassidic Jews was a signal that…

When Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) went from a likely no vote on confirming Pete Hegseth to become Defense Secretary to an easy yes, the switch was attributed to political pressure from Trump and his allies. That pressure was intense. There were cries of disloyalty…

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If the only things certain in life are death and taxes, you might say corporate lobbyists spend much of their time trying to avoid at…

Justice Samuel Alito wants to know what a state should do if a court orders it to draw a new congressional map under faulty logic. Put more broadly, what should a litigant do if it believes that a court has made an order in error? The answer, of course, is to…

On July 26, 1990, then-President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. The bill’s primary author was former Democratic House Rep. Tony Coelho of California, who was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 22. The ADA’s…

Rebecca Fielding-Miller, an associate professor of public health at the University of California, San Diego, was in a faculty meeting on Friday discussing how the Trump administration’s cuts to funding will affect academic research when she got some…

A fake website meant to look like a CDC webpage was put up sometime this month and quickly taken offline, but not before diligent information manipulation researchers noticed several signs that it was likely connected to Children’s Health Defense, the…

This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Oil and gas executives in Canada are calling on Canadian federal leaders to take their cues from US President Donald…