Politics

The pro-Palestinian student encampments protesting the war in Gaza swept across the country this week, and with them, dramatic imagery of arrests and crackdowns from New York to Texas to Southern California. Soon, the comparison to another protest-filled election year inevitably arose. Is 2024 going to morph into something that …

The Maine House majority leader is vowing to counter any move by the Republican governor of Nebraska that would give Trump the state’s lone split electoral college vote. Politico reported:The state House majority leader, Maureen Terry, said in a statement on Friday that the Democratic-controlled Legislature would “be compelled to …

President Biden has responded to The New York Times complaining about not getting an interview with him by giving Howard Stern an exclusive interview. Here is what Biden is doing this morning: Interview so far is very biographical. Biden recalls that “I was a …

Screenshot/Collin Rugg X On Wednesday, Donald Trump met with New York union leader Bobby Bartels. As the head of Steamfitters Local 638, Bartels said his fellow working-class, blue-collar union members were leaning heavily towards Trump in the presidential election. Traditionally, union members have voted more heavily for Democrats. This time, …

Workers who make trucks and buses for Daimler Truck in North Carolina appeared poised to strike on Friday as contract talks remained deadlocked. A contract covering 7,000 Daimler employees represented by the United Automobile Workers will expire at the end of Friday. The German company has five factories in North …

Peter Schey, a driven defender of the human rights of migrants crossing the Southern border, who won landmark legal cases requiring humane care for undocumented children and the right of migrants to attend school and receive health care in states that tried to bar those services, died in Los Angeles …

Trump made a massive mistake as he tried to change the subject from David Pecker’s testimony by calling the racist attack in Charlottesville nothing. Trump said: Breathtaking in this room, you saw what went on. It was breathtaking and amazing testimony. This is a trial that should have never happened. …

Screenshot: Andrew Surabian X Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) tore into the Senate’s approval of a $95 billion aid package to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan during a speech to the chamber earlier this week. He compared the narrative to propaganda used to draw America into the Iraq War. History, he believes, …

Trump’s lawyer made outlandish claims of broad and comprehensive presidential immunity that liberal and conservative justices seemed not to buy. Let’s take a look at a couple of the claims. Trump’s lawyer John Sauer argued that Trump has the legal authority to create fake slates of electors: Trump’s lawyer, when …

The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Casey Harper (The Center Square) President Joe Biden defended newly released underperforming economic growth numbers. Federal data shows the U.S. Gross Domestic Product grew at an annual growth rate of 1.6% in the first three months of this year, down from …