On Tuesday, the search warrant documents used by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to investigate President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen were released…
German politicians are calling for the expulsion of Trump-appointed UN ambassador Richard Grenell.
America is having a heated debate about the meaning of the word socialism. We’d be better served if, instead, we were debating the meaning of freedom. The Oregonian reported last…
Tom King has lived an interesting life. In the years after 9/11 he served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a CIA officer tasked with disrupting terrorist networks. Since then he…
The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University The cruel murder of 50 people in New Zealand was another tragic reminder of how…
The U.S. State Department is holding a special conference call but has barred reporters who regularly cover the State Dept. from the call and instead is allowing only “faith-based media”…
Last week, the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety in the Maine legislature voted to advance LD 628, a bill that would guarantee female prisoners a right…
The topic of slavery reparations is finally trending again, nearly five years after Ta-Nehisi Coates’ essay in The Atlantic making the case. Even 2020 presidential candidates are talking about it —…
On Tuesday, the search warrant documents used by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to investigate President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen were released…
America is having a heated debate about the meaning of the word socialism. We’d be better served if, instead, we were debating the meaning of freedom. The Oregonian reported last…
A human rights group is accusing the United States of waging a shadow air war in Somalia that is killing civilians with abandon. Amnesty International issued its findings on the African…
Preet Bharara has become a staple of the contemporary political commentariat in the age of President Donald Trump, so it can easily be forgotten that he’s not just a typical…
On Tuesday, a federal judge dealt a blow to President Donald Trump, ruling that his Justice Department was mistaken in claiming that recent federal court decisions had cleared the way…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller included a mysterious note in a court filing Tuesday that suggests his team is busily working on a project that will soon be over. The filing…
One of the biggest victories for civil rights last year was Florida’s passage of Amendment 4, a measure to restore the right to vote for rehabilitated ex-convicts in the state.…
Donald Trump Jr. made the bizarre choice to issue a broadside against British Prime Minister Theresa May in the ongoing Brexit crisis, publishing an op-ed in The Telegraph Tuesday accusing…
Bertie Vidgen, University of Oxford The deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed and many others critically injured, was streamed live on…