An investigation led by Michigan Republican lawmakers found no basis for claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, a Michigan Senate report released Wednesday concludes. The results of the inquiry by the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee, chaired by a Republican and comprised of a GOP-majority, are the […]
If the Senate fails to pass voting rights legislation this week, as expected, it may not mean the end of federal election law changes this year. Democrats are already mulling several alternative strategies to protect voting rights nationwide. If they fail to act at all, states will continue to hold the agenda-setting power for voting […]
Iowa’s Republican-majority Legislature changed the state’s election laws this year after a general election with one of the closest congressional races in history, won by a Republican, that resulted in legal action. Democrats in the Legislature and some citizens who sued to stop the law opposed bills changing the law ut the changes, now law, will be in […]
Republicans in Arizona are still pushing the myth that President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election — a falsehood that ultimately culminated in the Jan. 6 violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. The falsehood lives on in the review of about 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, launched in April. A report on its […]
As coronavirus vaccination rates rise and the United States opens up after a lengthy pandemic, one of the emerging flashpoints involves elite sports. The questions sports teams and leagues are facing are the same types of questions that are puzzling businesses, schools, shops and restaurants as the United States continues to open back up. But […]
It’s been almost six months since hundreds of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a brazen attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Since then, some have tried to pass the blame onto others, like antifa. Others tried to claim that it was just […]
At a time when Republican-led states are moving to restrict how teachers can talk about the legacy of slavery and racism in their classrooms, Republicans in Congress just rallied in overwhelming numbers to mark the end of slavery in the South. This week, the Senate unanimously approved June 19, or Juneteenth, as a new federal […]
Last week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) posted a Twitter thread asserting that people who have survived a COVID-19 infection were unlikely to be reinfected and have better immunity against variants than those who have been vaccinated against — but not infected by — SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. The social-media communication represented his latest […]
Social media posts have accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of purchasing “severed heads of aborted babies” and grafting “their scalps onto lab rats.” The headline of an article on the conservative website Gateway Pundit reads, “Dr. Fauci is Funding Gruesome University of Pittsburgh Study Skinning Scalps off of Aborted Babies and Growing them on Lab Rats.” […]
The Supreme Court on June 17 turned back its third chance to upend the Affordable Care Act, rejecting a lawsuit filed by a group of Republican state attorneys general claiming that a change made by Congress in 2017 had rendered the entire law unconstitutional. By a vote of 7-2, however, the justices did not even reach […]
In America’s fraught debate over race and justice, a blend of Republicans, libertarians and conservatives have focused their ire on critical race theory. It’s not a well-defined target. Supporters describe critical race theory as a collection of ideas, not a single doctrine, that explain why racial inequality and disparities persist long after civil rights laws […]
At their recent summit in Cornwall, England, the G-7 countries backed an effort to offer an alternative to the “Belt and Road Initiative,” China’s sprawling, eight-year-old effort to build physical and digital infrastructure in other countries. The G-7 effort, called “Build Back Better for the World,” or B3W for short, is being championed by President […]