As we remember the life and legacy of Harry Belafonte, we look back at his antiwar activism, including his outspoken opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. On February 15 of that year, amid global protests against the war, Belafonte addressed hundreds of thousands who rallied in New York City and called for peace.
We remember the remarkable life of Harry Belafonte, the pioneering actor, singer and civil rights activist, who died at his home on Tuesday in New York at the age of 96. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Belafonte rose to stardom in the 1950s and became the first artist to sell a million records with his album Calypso. He was also the first African American actor to win an Emmy. Along with his growing fame, Belafonte became deeply involved in the civil rights movement. One of Dr.
New weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity.
Why the life-expectancy rate in the United States is falling behind that in other rich countries
The host spent some of his last minutes on the network mocking a cult. He did not seem to appreciate the irony.
We continue our conversation with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who has just returned from Honduras. He calls on the international community to do more to help in Central America, where one in three people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, and gangs, drug trafficking and violence are forcing many to flee north.
It’s “absolutely true we haven’t seen the last of Tucker Carlson,” said Jonah Goldberg, who quit Fox News in protest of Carlson’s rhetoric.
The Texas Republican apparently planned to create a fake “commission” to overturn the 2020 election.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy insists it will be voted on this week, but a narrow House Republican margin leaves no room for error.
A recent speech by the ousted Fox News host had religious overtones that were too extreme even for Rupert Murdoch, a source told Vanity Fair.
Under the new proposal, armed personnel must also train in identifying students with mental health issues.
As President Biden officially announces his reelection bid for 2024, we look at his recent executive order establishing a new Office of Environmental Justice within the White House and requiring all federal agencies to weigh the environmental impact of policies on marginalized communities.
In a surprise announcement, Fox News said Monday it was cutting ties with its top-rated host Tucker Carlson, effective immediately. Although a precise reason wasn’t given, the move came just days after the cable network settled a $787.5 million defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over lies propagated by the cable network about the 2020 presidential election.
China is taking an increasingly assertive role in world affairs, helping to broker a restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering to hold talks between Israel and Palestine. “China doesn’t want the United States to be the preeminent power.
The host used his platform to bring hate and conspiracy theories from the fever swamps to cable TV.
The choices will be a traditional American politician or a de facto cult leader—again.
Unlike TikTok and Instagram, the photos and reviews on Google Maps haven’t been packaged for your taste or mine.
The history of Fox News shows that the network and its issues are larger than any one anchor.
Lizzie and Kaitlyn head to Queens for a day at the racetrack.
The ACLU is suing to block new Missouri restrictions on both adults and children seeking gender-affirming health care.
If you missed it yesterday, I wrote about Ukraine’s potential directions in its coming big counterattack. While heading south to break the land bridge makes the most strategic sense, it’s also what Russia is most expecting. So I had a dream scenario that looked like this:
I’m still dreaming about this.
The MAGA world was rocked early Monday with the news that its loudest mouthpiece was being silenced. Tucker Carlson and Fox News “parted ways,” the network announced, in what was reportedly not at all a voluntary move on one side. “He was totally surprised,” an insider at Fox told Mediaite. “It was a firing.” But why?
One explanation that is sure to make MAGA devotees even more inflamed over losing their best TV buddy is that Fox Corp.
The prosecutor who is investigating whether Donald Trump illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia says she expects to announce charging decisions in the case this summer and is urging “heightened security.
Montana Republicans want to silence Rep. Zooey Zephyr after she said they would have “blood on their hands” if they banned gender-affirming medical care.
For years now, Tucker Carlson has groomed himself into the perfect far-right propaganda machine. For that, he was rewarded handsomely. Fox News’ audience flocked to his show, eager to soak up his curated paranoias, far-right hoaxes, and talking points lifted brazenly from white nationalist and neo-Nazi communities so Carlson could pump them into the heads of viewers already primed to believe anything any televised lout was willing to shout at them.
“You’re standing up for our kids, you’re standing up for our communities,” Biden told Rep. Justin Pearson, Rep. Justin Jones and Rep. Gloria Johnson during an Oval Office meeting.
Barely Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing a big test this week: marshaling his tiny majority to vote for his radical debt ceiling and budget cuts plan. He set an ambitious deadline for getting it done by the end of this week, which seems unlikely since the House doesn’t get to legislative work until Wednesday.
The long and winding racist, anti-immigrant, homophobic, invective-strewn road of Tucker Carlson at Fox news has come to an unceremonious end. It is a perfect finish to the rage-filled tenure of a ginormous windbag who has done so much to harm the public discourse since his show premiered in 2016.
Tucker Carlson and Fox parting ways set the news ablaze, and the reactions came in sizzling and fast.
We continue our conversation with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who has just returned from Honduras. He calls on the international community to do more to help in Central America, where one in three people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, and gangs, drug trafficking and violence are forcing many to flee north.
