It has been said many times, but it’s important to remember that Jimmy Carter’s most important and impactful years as a leader in the United States came after he left the presidency in 1981.
For months now, the most prominent images put out daily by the Ukrainian military haven’t been scenes from the front, they’ve been images of Ukrainian troops training for the next phase of the war. Not only has Ukraine been getting additional troops ready to go to the front, many of those who had been fighting for weeks or months were pulled back to train on new systems and new tactics.
In newly released audio from 2021, Navarro is heard criticizing Powell, a fellow ally of Donald Trump, for damaging the efforts to overturn the 2020 vote.
This year’s highest-profile electoral contest gave Democrats an undeniable shot in the arm. A liberal judge, running on abortion access and safeguarding democracy, trounced a conservative judge with polar opposite views, flipping a state Supreme Court majority from conservative to progressive.
Life online is losing chaos, unpredictability, and delight—all of the things that made it fun.
The debate unfolds between groups with different points of reference.
A Q&A with Jonathan Rosen, whose new book, The Best Minds, delves into a fraught friendship and the societal response to schizophrenia
Stripped down to its skeleton, Twitter is the definitive “shame network.
We look at the historic settlement reached this week in Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News for promoting lies about voting machines being rigged against Trump in the 2020 election.
“The real DeSantis record is one of misery and despair,” a Trump spokesperson said in a campaign email on Friday.
The former president asked a Fort Myers crowd if they wanted a slice after he’d taken a bite of it.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to let Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee question an ex-prosecutor.
Spotsylvania County’s superintendent floated the idea as cost-cutting measure before then removing over a dozen titles from shelves.
Letter from scholars and experts on the issue say it meets the criteria, while the U.S. has cited it only as “crimes against humanity.
In Yemen, at least 79 people were killed and over 300 injured in a stampede on Wednesday in the capital city of Sana’a. The crowd crush began after armed Houthis fired into the air to control the crowd, striking electrical equipment and causing it to explode. The tragic deaths come as Yemen continues to face one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises following years of fighting between U.S.-backed Saudi forces and the Houthi rebels.
We get an update from South Texas, where Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket blew up four minutes after launch Friday and residents reported particulates or ash rained down on their neighborhoods near the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. We speak with Bekah Hinojosa of Another Gulf Is Possible, who has been targeted for participating in protests against SpaceX. She says, “We’re clearly being exploited by a billionaire and his pet project.
We discuss the U.S. gun violence epidemic with historian Andrew McKevitt, who says, “We ought to conceive of our gun problem as a problem of gun capitalism.” He covers the history of the proliferation of individual gun ownership since World War II in his forthcoming book, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America.
For the tech world’s most attention-grabbing man, performance comes before substance.
First SpaceX blew up a rocket. Then Musk blew up Twitter’s verification system.
As pressure grows on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign over his decades-long relationship with a billionaire benefactor, we speak with legal journalist Adam Cohen, who says there is a precedent that should guide lawmakers in how to address the growing scandal. In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas was forced to resign after his financial relationship came to light with businessman Louis Wolfson, who paid Fortas to consult for his foundation.
Dylan Mulvaney, the trans TikTok influencer subject to conservative outrage over a beer partnership, interviewed President Joe Biden last year.
Michael Steele also revealed the private comments from national Republicans that anger him “more than anything.
The Texas Republican seemed to suggest there was an absence of “actual facts” about 2020 electoral fraud in his conversation with Maria Bartiromo.
The commentator’s “Canceled in the USA” program on Fox Nation will also end.
Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder announced Thursday he is running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
We look at the historic settlement reached this week in Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News for promoting lies about voting machines being rigged against Trump in the 2020 election.
As the Supreme Court weighs whether to keep mifepristone available nationwide, we speak with Julie Burkhart, who is on the frontlines of the fight for reproductive justice. Burkhart is president of Wellspring Health Access, the only full-service abortion clinic in Wyoming, that was firebombed by an anti-abortion activist last year, as well as co-owner of Hope Clinic in Granite City, Illinois. Burkhart previously worked for eight years with Dr. George Tiller before his assassination in 2009.
