Liberal View A Damning New Report Finally Explains the Strangest Thing I Saw Inside the Capitol Riot verified_publisherslate.com - Aymann Ismail When I walked toward the Capitol on Jan. 6 alongside Donald Trump’s supporters and heard some of them had breached the building ahead, I expected the …
United States Ted Cruz among a small number of Republicans opposing bill to address hate crimes against Asian Americans verified_publishertexastribune.org - Bryan Mena Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was among a handful of Republicans in the U.S. Senate who voted against advancing a bill aimed at addressing hate crimes against …
MSNBCU.S. Politics The problem with Republicans' pushback on Supreme Court expansion MSNBC - Steve Benen If Mike Lee really wants to debate which party has "spit in the face of judicial independence," I think that's a great idea. In late October 2020, …
LGBTQ NationLiberal View Mitch McConnell blocked the Ruth Bader Ginsburg memorial from the Capitol Rotunda LGBTQ Nation - Bil Browning Ginsburg would have been the first woman to lie in state in the rotunda. Instead, her coffin was placed in Statuary Hall on the House side of the …
CNNTom Cotton Cotton threatens to stall US attorney nominees from Democratic states verified_publisherCNN - By Jeremy Herb, Ted Barrett(CNN) — Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas is threatening to stall the nominations of US attorneys from states represented by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee in retribution for the committee's...
Vanity FairU.S. Politics Report: Good News for Donald Trump’s Waistline Is Bad News for America verified_publisherVanity Fair - Bess Levin“I think there’s an extra 10% to 15% chance he runs if he lost 20 pounds.” Is Donald Trump going to run again in 2024? It’s a question that the United States—nay, the world—will likely be nervously asking...
HuffPostLiberal View Ted Cruz Shows His True Colors Once Again With Mask Stance HuffPost - Lee Moran"He doesn't care about anyone but himself," one critic hit back at the Texas Republican. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) faced backlash on Thursday after he declared that he’d no longer wear a face mask in the...
The NationLiberal View Charles Booker Knows Just How to Tackle Rand Paul in 2022 The Nation - By John Nichols The Democrat who shook up Kentucky politics in 2020 is looking at a 2022 run. Will D.C. Democrats let him run the right race this time? Democrats have …
Business InsiderU.S. Politics Senate Republicans are drafting their own infrastructure plan and want to tax people for it, not corporations verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Joseph Zeballos-RoigA group of Senate Republicans is assembling an infrastructure plan, part of a bid to strike a deal with President Joe Biden on a package that's more narrowly targeted in scope. The Republican faction to...
VoxLiberal View Moderate Republicans want Senator Biden back verified_publisherVox - Ella NilsenLong-serving US senators have known President Joe Biden for decades. Lately, the most moderate ones are trying to reconcile two Joe Bidens. There is Sen. Joe Biden, who, over the course of a 36-year Senate...
U.S. Senate Fetterman dwarfs competition in first fundraising numbers for Pa.’s Senate race verified_publisherwhyy.org - Katie Meyer There’s still well over a year until the 2022 election for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat, and already three of the candidates in the quickly …
U.S. News & World ReportU.S. Senate GOP Leaders Diverge on Trump, Putting Party in Limbo U.S. News & World Report - Associated Press By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — One by one, the Republican leaders of Congress have made the trip to Mar-a-Lago to …
The AtlanticU.S. News What Ever Happened to Donald Trump? verified_publisherThe Atlantic - David A. GrahamThe president was insistent as he left office: “We’re not going anywhere.” It had been a turbulent end of the presidency—impeachment, appalling pardons, and a lengthy dispute over the outcome of the presidential...
New York MagazineUnited States Chuck Schumer Has Changed New York Magazine - Gabriel Debenedetti Late one Wednesday last month, Chuck Schumer padded around his inner office in the Capitol in black socks decorated with palm trees, tended to his …
TheWrapU.S. Politics GOP Groups Spent $1 Million Bulk-Buying Candidates’ Books – and Helping Make Them Bestsellers TheWrap - J. Clara Chan A government watchdog group says Sen. Ted Cruz violated rules by using campaign funds on mass-purchases of his latest book The Republican National …
POLITICOJohn Fetterman The Democrats’ Giant Dilemma verified_publisherPOLITICO - Holly OtterbeinJohn Fetterman’s blue-collar progressivism has endeared him to Pennsylvania voters. Why are so many Democratic leaders opposing his Senate run? John Fetterman is one of the most photographed rising stars...
ForbesStudent Finance Biden Wants Student Loan Cancellation 3 Ways Forbes - Zack FriedmanThis is how President Joe Biden is thinking about student loan cancellation. Here’s what you need to know. Student Loans During testimony in the U.S. Senate today, Biden’s nominee for Undersecretary of...
Josh Hawley Hawley, who voted to overturn election, claims court bill seeks to overturn elections kansascity.com - Bryan Lowry A little more than three months after he led the effort to overturn the 2020 election, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley accused Democrats …
Guns The NRA Has Imploded, But Republicans Are Ready To Hold The Line On Gun Control Without Them buzzfeednews.com - Paul McLeod After a spike in mass shootings, Democrats are once again trying to tighten gun laws. The NRA may be effectively gone, but its messages still stand …
Washington State Senate OKs bill to recriminalize drug possession, divert early offenders to treatment theolympian.com - Sara Gentzler The Washington state Senate approved a bill Thursday that would make drug possession a gross misdemeanor and require diversion to treatment for a …
Georgia (U.S. State) Capitol Recap: Good news and bad news for Georgia governor ajc.com - Jim Denery Gov. Brian Kemp is apparently regaining some goodwill among Republicans, thanks to his strong defense of Georgia’s new voting law. But some …
POLITICOU.S. Politics Democrats hand their foes a weapon as they weigh a filibuster loophole verified_publisherPOLITICO - Jennifer ScholtesIf Schumer doesn't use his new arrow, the next majority leader could make it happen thanks to his reconnaissance. Chuck Schumer is hatching plans to further evade the constraints of the filibuster — and...
SalonLiberal View Letting the GOP run everything, even though they can't win the popular vote, is killing Americans verified_publisherSalonFriday morning, Americans awoke yet again to another round of headlines about a senseless mass shooting, this time with 8 people dead at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. After a year of an unimaginable...
Associated PressU.S. Politics Biden's appeals for action on guns, policing face reality Associated Press - By ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFEWASHINGTON (AP) — As the nation struggles with yet another mass shooting and faces a reckoning over the deaths of Black men at the hands of police, President Joe Biden is calling for action. Going beyond...
Religion News ServiceUnited States From the filibuster to DC statehood, clergy rally around a growing voting rights agenda Religion News Service - Jack Jenkins "I hear Jesus saying to America: 'I was hungry and you filibustered,’" said the Rev. Freddy D. Haynes. WASHINGTON (RNS) — Galvanized by recent laws …
BloombergEast Texas Texas Moves to Eliminate Firearm Licenses Amid Heated Gun Debate verified_publisherBloomberg - David Wethe Texas is on the verge of allowing residents to carry firearms in public without any sort of license, a rebuff to gun-control advocates alarmed by the …
U.S. Politics Sex, lies and the Alabama secretary of state: The fall of John Merrill al.com - Connor Sheets For more than two years, John Merrill carried on an affair, secure in the assumption that his secret life was safe so long as the woman he slept with …
National ReviewConservative View Democrats Dishonor RBG’s Wishes with Court-Packing Drive | National Review National Review - Jim Geraghty On the menu today: Congressional Democrats make it official, introducing legislation to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices, presumably …
Vernon Jones Former Democratic lawmaker Vernon Jones to challenge Kemp in GOP primary ajc.com - Greg Bluestein A former Democratic state legislator who switched parties after he endorsed Donald Trump is set to launch an insurgent challenge Friday against …
The Washington PostArizonaA cybersecurity expert who promoted claims of fraud in the 2020 election is leading the GOP-backed recount of millions of... verified_publisherThe Washington Post - By Rosalind HeldermanThe nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Ariz., last fall are currently packaged in 40 cardboard shrink-wrapped boxes and stacked on 45 pallets in a county facility in Phoenix known as vault,”...
