The lame-duck session of Donald Trump’s presidency featured an attack on the Capitol building by his supporters. It was the first time the building had been breached in over 200 years. And Trump’s supporters are even more unhappy now that they know he won’t be installed back in the White House. Thursday saw another attempted attack…
The personalities on the Fox News network know that many of their viewers are not vaccinated. And they’ve done everything they can to let the unvaccinated know that they have no problem with their stance. Fox hosts have regularly blamed immigrants for the surge in the delta variant rather than the large unvaccinated groups in…
Ron DeSantis has helped his state of Florida to become the epicenter of the Delta variant in the United States. But he doesn’t seem at all concerned about stopping the surge. Instead, DeSantis has focused on the COVID culture war. He has threatened to stop paying school administrators who instituted mask mandates (a number of…
Ari Melber highlighted the disconnect between DC elites who are criticizing Biden on Afghanistan and the public that supports the President.
Despite being a freshman congressperson from a small district in Colorado, Lauren Boebert has fast become a name in politics. Most of the coverage of her, however, is not favorable. She tweeted out the location of Nancy Pelosi during the January 6th insurrection when Trump supporters were looking to harm the Speaker. She has made…
Frank Figliuzzi said that he hadn’t seen this sort of online radicalization, like what is happening to right, since he worked on al-Qaeda and ISIS.
California has suffered through the Coronavirus over the last year and a half. And due to a quirk in the recall system, Republicans have a shot at taking over the governor’s office. The chief candidate for the GOP is Larry Elder, a businessman and radio host. Elder has made countless offensive comments in the past…
A man who is an anti-government domestic terrorist that wanted Joe Biden to resign and claimed to have a bomb at the Library of Congress got a statement of sympathy from Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL).
A Trump-inspired terrorist who claimed to have a bomb outside of the Library of Congres has turned himself in.
President Biden has set the stage to take legal action against anti-mask Republican governors for violating the civil rights of students.
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) is statistically tied with Sen. Marco Rubio in the 2022 Florida Senate race.
Steve Walsh, the husband of Missouri State Representative Sara Walsh (R) has died of Covid-19 complications. He was unvaccinated. And his wife has continued to resist getting vaccinated herself. “It saddens my heart to share that this morning my best friend and beloved husband Steve Walsh was welcomed to Heaven’s glory into the arms of…
Capitol Police are responding to a report of a possible explosive in a pickup truck outside the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill. The surrounding area has been evacuated. “We are monitoring this situation closely and will update this account as we get information we can release,” the Capitol Police said on Twitter. This is…
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) took to Twitter to criticize President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan, fulfilling an agreement initiated by former President Donald Trump and his administration. “President Biden’s weak leadership damaged our reputation, emboldened our enemies, and—most distressingly—left thousands of American lives in hostile territory with no guarantee…
A new poll provides more evidence that the American people are behind President Biden’s decision on Afghanistan.
Representative Lauren Boebert is in hot water for not disclosing her husband’s income from an energy firm. Boebert’s husband, Jayson Boebert, made $478,000 last year working as a consultant for “Terra Energy Productions.” No such company exists. However, Terra Energy Partners, a Houston-based firm that claims to be “one of the largest producers of natural…
What has happened over the past 72 hours is precisely what Trump negotiated with the Taliban and hailed as awesome by Republicans at the time of the deal.
Covid-19 has now been a defining part of our lives for a year and a half.  And we are now entering a new phase: trying to transition this disease from a society-crashing pandemic to a more manageable endemic disease. On the Great Ideas Podcast, Matt Robison interviewed leading researcher Dr. Jodie Guest –  Professor and…
