Leading conservative activist Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after being shot while speaking to students at a university in Utah. He was 31 years old. Videos circulating on social media appeared to show Kirk being struck in the neck while he was sitting on a stool addressing an outdoor crowd at Utah Valley University in the […]
The Michigan Senate race is a three-way contest between Rep. Haley Stevens, whose last campaign was boosted by millions of dollars from AIPAC; Abdul El-Sayed, a leading advocate of the “Uncommitted Movement” who’s known as Michigan’s Mamdani; and a third candidate, state legislator Mallory McMorrow.
Kamala Harris is back…with a vengeance. The first excerpt of her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days, about her history-making presidential campaign after President Joe Biden dropped out, published on Wednesday morning in The Atlantic. And it is unexpectedly juicy for Harris, who is typically known to equivocate—and who, until now, staunchly defended Biden’s decision to run […]
“Now more than ever, the world needs an honest newsroom.” With these words, the little-known Informing America Foundation was awarded the $250,000 Gregor G. Peterson Prize in “venture philanthropy” last December for its “high-quality journalism.” If few had heard of IAF, hinted the nonprofit’s CEO, Debbie Myers, it was by design. “We stay very much […]
The president disappeared just long enough for the speculation to begin, and for the press to start asking questions. The year was 1893, and Grover Cleveland had a tumor on the roof of his mouth. Fearing that news of his illness would make him seem weak, Cleveland arranged to have it secretly removed on a […]
Former First Lady Simone Gbagbo’s inclusion in a list of five candidates came as a surprise following the controversial disqualification of other candidates.
The far-right justices' over-reliance on ‘emergency’ unexplained decisions to greenlight Trump’s spree of lawlessness sends the message that the president can do whatever he wants.