In April, United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivered a lecture at Harvard Law School with the less-than-scintillating title “The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics.” He argued strongly—and, at least in my view, unconvincingly—that Supreme Court justices are above politics. Breyer insisted that “jurisprudential differences,” not political ones, “account for most, perhaps almost all, of judicial disagreements.
The Wisconsin Republican’s one-week ban from uploading videos stems from his comments to the Milwaukee Press Club event, which were posted on the platform.
For most of her life, Gulfisha Fatima showed little interest in anything beyond academics. By late 2019, the 27-year-old Delhi resident had finished her M.B.A. and was getting ready to apply for a Ph.D. Even as a student, she stayed away from activism. “Her world,” her brother Aqil told me, “revolved around books.”That began to change in December of that year.
The picture of socially distanced world leaders standing on a beach in England has gone viral.
“It wasn’t like driving a Ferrari. For someone who’s not great at parking, I wouldn’t recommend it.
It’s not what the pundits think. It’s what the money guys are doing.
The restaurants who needed them to survive? The humans who endured the pandemic city? Or their old owners, cars?
A late-breaking campaign controversy, explained.
The FDA’s independent vaccine advisory committee grappled with how to ensure the safety of Covid shots in children as disease caseloads continue to dwindle in the U.S.
Fatigue over America’s long-running drug crisis and anti-science sentiment are fueling backlash against needle exchanges.
President Joe Biden will announce the plan tomorrow ahead of the G-7 meeting in the United Kingdom.
It’s even worse than I thought.
Teacher advice on vacation, potty training, and social justice.
“The yearbook is about capturing the students, not the building.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
Some analysts suggested that the administration is essentially admitting that its proposed surge in federal spending won’t actually boost the economy much at all.
President Biden’s plan to buy 500 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine and donate them to 92 countries comes as health experts warn vaccination inequity could prolong the pandemic for everyone if the coronavirus continues to mutate, possibly making it more infectious and resistant to vaccines.
Using the Justice Department to gather private information about members of Congress carried echoes of Nixon during Watergate.
It’s Friday! Another week, another series of confusing politician and traditional media uses of the word “bipartisan.” The infrastructure bill that virtually every American wants and needs to happen continues to be held up by anti-democracy politics.
Daily Kos Elections has calculated the 2020 presidential results for every state Senate and state House district in Georgia, a state that Joe Biden put in the Democratic column for the first time in nearly three decades but where Republican gerrymanders helped keep Team Red firmly in control of both legislative chambers.
As Daily Kos continues to cover, Republicans have been at the helm of an absolute onslaught of anti-trans bills in recent months. Most national media attention has centered around bills aiming to keep trans girls out of girls’ sports, but other bills involve efforts to prevent trans folks from updating their birth certificates and even from accessing safe, age-appropriate, gender-affirming medical care.
Joining hundreds of firsts that Muslim Americans have seen in the past five years is Judge Zahid Quraishi. He was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to a lifetime seat on a U.S. district court, making him the first Muslim American federal judge in U.S. history.
Senators voted 81-16 to confirm 46-year-old Quraishi to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders and their allies rallied in a number of U.S. cities on Thursday to call on federal lawmakers to enact a pathway to citizenship through the budget reconciliation process. This national day of action by members of the National TPS Alliance comes just days after a devastating, unanimous Supreme Court decision that stands to make it harder for immigrants to gain residency.
Officer Karol J. Chwiesiuk allegedly breached the Capitol building, and told an acquaintance beforehand that he was going to D.C. to “f**k up some commies.
Under Donald Trump, the department subpoenaed Apple for data belonging to House Democrats and journalists investigating his ties to Russia.
“She was the one who recorded a motion cinema picture that set the world on fire,” said George Floyd’s brother, Philonise.
