President Donald Trump has been spreading a lot of misleading statements or flat-out lies about “Medicare for All” — a progressive health policy gaining traction among Democrats. Most recently, Trump said that providing health insurance to everybody doesn’t work anywhere in the world. He avoided calling the policy Medicare for All — likely because 60 […]
The conservative Judicial Crisis Network spent six figures on a television ad thanking Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) for her pivotal vote supporting Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court Justice, according to the Washington Post. “In the midst of the chaos one leader stood out,” the ad says. “She did the right thing, supporting him. Thanks Susan […]
Donald Trump ran for president in 2016 on a hard-line, tough-on-China platform. Since getting elected, he has used a revolving door of foreign policy advisers and taken just about every possible different position on the Asian nation. The administration’s policy toward Beijing has been nothing short of bewildering, even to the Chinese government. China’s ambassador to […]
Members of the far-right Patriot Prayer group and the white nationalist Proud Boys group clashed with Antifa demonstrators in Portland Saturday evening, resulting in several skirmishes during what has turned out to be a weekend of right-wing violence on both coasts. The altercations began Saturday afternoon, when the far-right groups organized a “Flash March for […]
Members of the far-right Patriot Prayer group and the white nationalist Proud Boys group clashed with Antifa demonstrators in Portland Saturday evening, resulting in several skirmishes during what has turned out to be a weekend of right-wing violence on both coasts. The altercations began Saturday afternoon, when the far-right groups organized a “Flash March for […]
Saudia Arabia rejected “threats” and international pressure Sunday over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and vowed to retaliate if hit with sanctions. “The kingdom affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether through economic sanctions, political pressure or repeating false accusations,” the Saudi Arabia’s official press agency said in […]
Josh Hawley, the Republican nominee against Missouri’s US senator Claire McCaskill (D), has made protecting people with pre-existing conditions a key part of his campaign platform — even as he undermines those protections as his state’s attorney general. Asked to reconcile that hypocrisy on Sunday, Hawley pretended that requiring that insurance companies offer some policy to the […]
New York state and city officials promised to launch an immediate investigation into the attacks on Friday by the Proud Boys, a far-right hate group with ties to neo-Nazis. They did not say however their probe will look into inaction by New York City police, who failed to arrest members of the group as they […]
New York state and city officials promised to launch an immediate investigation into the attacks on Friday by the Proud Boys, a far-right hate group with ties to neo-Nazis. They did not say however their probe will look into inaction by New York City police, who failed to arrest members of the group as they […]
With less than a month to go until the midterm elections, the Republican party’s leading outside congressional election super PAC has announced it won’t use its funds to back two Southern California lawmakers facing tough odds in the coming midterms. None of the $12 million the Congressional Leadership Fund plans to spend on cable television ad […]
Months after Donald Trump claimed he was abandoning his own policy of separating immigrant asylum seekers and their children, he is now exploring ways to bring the horrific policy back. Asked Saturday about why he would revert to a hugely unpopular and likely illegal approach, Trump incorrectly claimed that it is an effective deterrent. “Well, I will […]