“The whistleblowers who came forward have warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes.” President Donald Trump has approved six authorizations for American companies to conduct nuclear-related ...
At a recent CNN town hall, Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg took specific issue with Vice President Mike Pence’s support of Donald Trump. Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana (Pence’s home state) and openly gay (ahem, ...
White House Advisor Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace proposal allegedly included a land swap plan where Jordan would receive Saudi Arabian land if Jordan turned over land to the Palestinians. Jared Kushner’s proposal to make ...
Who broke into North Korea’s embassy in Spain? The brazen attack and siege of data has prompted multiple theories. On February 22, just five days ahead of the summit between President Donald Trump and North ...
President Donald Trump threatened comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live” with a federal investigation for its consistent mockery of him. In a pair of tweets early Sunday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to have the long-running ...
Treating the analogy of the closing bar as a metaphor for political affiliation, “going home” is presumably supporting the Democratic Party, at least for people who have been party supporters or are members of subsets ...
While Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday had multiple explosive moments, it also proved the U.S. has a formidable new leader in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In less than two full months as a United States ...
As a confessed Sanders supporter from 2016—and thus someone making no claims to objectivity—I bristle at a number of these concerns. Especially the ones about Bernie costing Hillary the election or doing major damage to ...
A new House investigation is looking into the Trump administration’s push to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, possibly in violation of U.S. law. According to a recently released report prepared for Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, ...
When Rep. Ilhan Omar intimated that the United States’ alliance with Israel is motivated primarily by money and later responded to a tweet asking who she thinks is paying politicians to be pro-Israel with the ...
Republicans and Democrats reached a deal Monday night while President Trump was at a campaign rally in Texas where he told attendees he didn’t even want to hear about the new deal. Monday night Congressional ...
Fundraising for Trump’s re-election bid in 2020 is already setting records in 2019. (Center for Responsive Politics) Outside groups supporting President Donald Trump’s re-election bid kicked off 2019 with a barrage of spending, an early ...
Before we get to the veracity of what Trump said or lack thereof, let’s first address what the man spoke about. Trump’s agenda, at least in principle, was devoted to the areas where members of ...
“Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong-Un is a good one.” Last Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un for a second ...
Only a week after the U.S. announced it would pull out of the INF Treaty the arms race between Russia and the U.S. is already heating up. Russia announced it is racing to develop two ...
When will Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism be called to account for its zealotry and human rights abuses? Addressing the nation during his State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump further affirmed his determination to ...
Why not run as a Democrat and join an ever-deepening 2020 field? As Schultz has suggested in interviews, he opposes running as a Democrat because of what he views as “extremism on both sides.” He ...
As relations worsen between the US and Russia, is Venezuela beginning to look like the first contested battleground in a new Cold War?
New documents reveal how Isreal’s nuclear program came to be and details the history of the program’s development. Haaretz contributor and historian, Adam Raz disclosed that documents he received from a confidential source after a speaking ...
I ask this as one of the growing list of fans of AOC, but it’s an honest question. If she’s a flash in the pan, why bother talking about her at all? There are any ...
Russia – U.S. geopolitics could result in a new US military base in Brazil, but Brazil’s military doesn’t seem to happy about that. On Thursday Jan. 3 the Brazilian administration under President Jair Bolsonaro stated ...
A lawsuit against the Trump Family Foundation seeks more than $2.8 million in restitution plus additional penalties from members of the Trump family for allegedly misusing charitable assets. (The Conversation, by Daniel Hemel, Assistant Professor of Law, University ...
A new year brought a new message from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. In his New Year address, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said he is ready to meet with US President Donald Trump anytime this ...
Whatever your outlook on the days, weeks, and years to come, it’s worth looking back on the moments of the past 12 months and revisiting the themes they evoked. Without further ado, it’s time for… ...
While the capital is locked in a game of cat and mouse, over 800,000 federal workers will have their lives hanging in the balance as they wait for a solution to the government shutdown. The ...
Observers will point out this is a very early poll. For the sake of an example, Jeb Bush had a comfortable lead at this point in 2014—and we all know how that eventually turned out. Nevertheless, these ...
Investigators in New York are looking into how Trump’s inaugural committee spent and received donations. More drama unfolded Thursday as news broke that President Trump’s inaugural committee is reportedly under investigation by federal prosecutors at the ...
Dwight Schrute is, of course, a fictional character, and his attitude is an extreme one. Nevertheless, his mentality reflecting the notion that health care is no guarantee and the idea he needs to select a ...
This time, of course, is an era in which Donald Trump is President of the United States and the effective leader of the Republican Party, and unrepentant obstructionist Mitch McConnell is the Senate Majority Leader ...
“What we can conclude with a great deal of confidence now is that climate change is making these events more extreme.” “You look at other countries where they do it differently and it’s a whole ...
A documentary looking back at Jim Jones and the massacre in Jonestown, Guyana warns of cult-like devotion to demagogues. Forty years ago, a self-styled holy man named Jim Jones oversaw the mass slaughter of nearly ...
Election Fallout is a series which will look at what’s next for the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party, and Republicans following the 2018 general elections. Received so many Congratulations from so ...
“Economic War” and the U.S. imposes the “toughest sanctions ever” on Iran. The Trump administration officially imposed a second round of economic sanctions on Iran, describing them as “the toughest sanctions” ever slapped on Tehran, ...
U.S. President Donald Trump responded furiously to French President Emmanuel Macron’s idea to build up Europe’s joint forces. The billionaire tweeted his anger after arriving in Paris on Saturday to commemorate the end of World ...
Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, took to his blog to explain his reasoning for why he switched his endorsement from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential ...
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office. (FactCheck.org) In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: The jobless rate dropped to the lowest in nearly half a ...
The Wave Of Roses is a Citizens Truth series which highlights progressive candidates and organizations which challenge corporate Third Way control of the Democratic Party. This entry looks at key United States House of Representatives ...
Trump is threatening to pull out of a Cold War era nuclear treaty which could have ramifications for nuclear programs around the world, including North Korea. The US is reportedly preparing to leave the nuclear ...
In August, President Donald Trump had the following to say about the media during an interview with Fox News: No, not at all. But the fake news is, and the fake news is comprised of ...
Will the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi bring down Saudi Arabia’s beloved Prince Mohammed bin Salman? The biggest falls often come from the most unlikely of crises. Just as one fruit-seller in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi, brought ...
The way President Donald Trump operates, it’s not like many of the remarks he made during his recent interview with Lesley Stahl for 60 Minutes were particularly surprising or groundbreaking. Many of his comments were ...
Several movie reviews are already calling attention to a new Watergate documentary for its parallels between Richard Nixon and current president Donald Trump, although the film never mentions Trump. Political scandal and an “out of ...
Demands for transparency from Saudi Arabia following the mysterious disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi are putting the Trump administration in an awkward situation. Khashoggi was a Washington Post columnist who strangely vanished in the kingdom’s consulate ...
Though you probably don’t need a reminder, in 2016, Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Despite getting fewer votes than Hillary Clinton overall, Trump won enough states—and the right states, at that—to secure victory ...
Between September 18 and September 20 South Korean President Moon Jae-In held talks with Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang. Both leaders agreed to engage in economic cooperation and reduce military tension by building a buffer zone ...
As the trade war escalates between the U.S. and China, some countries in Southeastern Asia could come out winners. On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Washington will apply a ten percent tariff on imported ...
A Murphy Brown reboot premieres this September with the full cast from the original show. “Murphy Brown” is the latest classic sitcom to get a reboot, and is among the few that is expected to ...