Some years ago, I was given an assignment by Vanity Fair to track down war criminals and former dictators who, despite being ousted from power, hadn’t yet seen justice. As I hunted down their villas on the French Riviera, one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in the world, or in the cobbled side streets of Paris’s 16th arrondissement, I was reminded, not for the first time, that after war or upheaval, bad guys rarely face a timely reckoning.
He wants me to move in with him. I’m suspicious of his motives—but it sure would be nice not to have to worry about rent.
CNN commentator S.E. Cupp slammed the “gibberish” and “nonsense” coming from elected Republicans.
Get ready for HQ2, uh, part two.
Years ago, I pleaded with him to get health insurance. Now I’m being ostracized due to his carelessness.
Joe Biden says the pickup truck is fast. It’s heavy, too.
Businesses can continue to require customers and employees to wear coverings, the governor said.
Omitting traditional anti-abortion provisions from his budget proposal could be his strongest statement yet on the issue.
The prize drawing is meant to encourage vaccination.
The ongoing discussions on Capitol Hill represent a remarkable bipartisan agreement that Congress should investigate the origins of a virus that has killed 3.5 million people worldwide.
The finding could pave the way for the shot to become the second authorized in the U.S. for use in teens.
It involves Vin Diesel, a condom, and a mostly forgotten movie.
There were how many diamonds on the ring? The groom has been married how many times?
The study adds fuel to an intense national debate about what is behind a suspected worker shortage and what policy changes are needed to accelerate Americans’ return to work as the pandemic subsides.
Corporate executives and lobbyists say they are confident they can kill almost all of these tax hikes by pressuring moderate Democrats in the House and Senate.
The White House’s reaction to unexpected jobs and price data has opened the administration up to GOP attacks.
Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed says things should get better as people overcome fears related to the pandemic.
President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of COVID-19 as new questions are being raised over whether an accidental leak from a Chinese virology lab is to blame for the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal reports three employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with COVID-like symptoms in the autumn of 2019 and were hospitalized in November of that year, before the first recorded case of COVID-19.
It is Friday! In the wee hours of the night, the Republican Party destroyed the chances for our country to investigate the closest our nation has come to a coup d’etat since the main form of visual media was the daguerreotype. It’s not surprisng but it is a sad statement about where our country is at.
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida took time away from mocking the sex trafficking charges against him and rallying against Liz Cheney alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene to tell the world that he’s possibly been the target of a scam. Yes, that’s right. WFLA reports that Matt Gaetz and his brand new fiancée Ginger Luckey* say that they’ve been had.
After a 3-year-old boy died this week in Vieques, Puerto Rico, angry residents say the death could have been prevented if the island had a functional hospital.
In the two states with the closest outcomes in the 2020 election and where secretaries of state held the line against efforts to overturn the results, Republican lawmakers have made brazen power grabs that would tie the hands of those same elected officials in future elections.
Georgia GOP lawmakers have already codified their effort into law while Republicans in Arizona are attempting to finalize a similar move, as The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake points out.
When Daily Kos first covered the situation with children suffering from Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) and the possible treatment now called adrabetadex back on April 14, the story was left at a moment of confusion, frustration, and real fear that the only available treatment for this heartbreaking disease was about to become unavailable.
Gas prices have reached a seven-year high, which experts say is largely the result of higher demand and a shortage of fuel truck drivers.
The amendment makes abortion essentially inaccessible for low-income women and many women of color.
Netflix’s history of Black American food serves up the shock of the familiar.
Three times in the past year, American democracy has been tested. Once, and most consequentially, it emerged victorious. The subsequent two tests have not turned out as well, and that is a bleak omen for whenever the next test arrives.The first test came after last fall’s election, when more Americans voted for the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, than for any other presidential candidate in history.
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.
