Category: Politics

The former DHS chief of staff isn’t big news right now. But what he’s saying is.

Addressing the convention was Abby Johnson, a prominent opponent of abortion rights, who was tweeting support for household voting in which only the head of the household can vote.

But that doesn’t mean he’s in a strong position.

Night two included high-profile speeches from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and first lady Melania Trump, plus the president’s son Eric Trump and daughter Tiffany Trump.

The varied yet united response is symbolic of many black families’ reactions to police violence.

The legitimate achievements of five people was something that became an opportunity to score political points.

Four years after Russian operatives used social media in a bid to exacerbate America’s racial divisions and suppress Black voting, such tactics have spread to a wide range of disinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The potency and persistence of this playbook was on display this week as Twitter deleted an account that claimed to belong to a former Black Lives Matter protester who had switched allegiances to the Republicans.

Joe Biden says he will overturn executive orders and other directives that weaken employee due process and collective bargaining rights.

A lower court said the requirement of an in-person visit to obtain pills was burdensome during the pandemic.

In 2011, the first lady helped her husband spread the falsehood that former president Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

Impeachment proceedings last year thrust the congresswoman into the national spotlight as she assumed the role of fierce defender of the president.

Since the Reagan years, Republicans have opposed the federal government picking winners and losers in the economy through government programs. But China’s rise is forcing them to rethink that.