The Republican Party’s crusade to enforce allegiance to former President Donald Trump claimed its most high-profile victim this week when Rep. Liz Cheney, Wyoming’s reliably conservative congresswoman and its sole representative in the House, was stripped of her leadership position in a swift voice vote. Her ouster provides a fresh answer to the question: Just […]
Nearly half a year after Arizona voted for Joe Biden, Republicans are pursuing an audit of election results in Maricopa County, fueling ongoing conspiracies about the presidential election. Republicans who organized the audit of 2.1 million ballots acknowledge that it will have no impact on the 2020 election results. The results were certified by state […]
In recent weeks, Democrats have repeatedly warned that Republican-backed election bills like the one enacted in Georgia amount to a resurgence of Jim Crow, the legal structures in the pre-1960s South that kept Blacks segregated and politically powerless. The system included both segregationist laws and social norms that relegated Blacks to second-class status. Significant elements […]
U.S Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said President Joe Biden is dividing Americans and has failed to deliver on his promise of unity. “I want to have an honest conversation,” Scott said. “About common sense and common ground. About this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation and how we move forward together.” […]
In his first speech before Congress, President Joe Biden argued it was time to turn the coronavirus pandemic into a historic opportunity to expand government for the benefit of a wider range of Americans, urging investments in jobs, climate change, child care, infrastructure and more. Biden said that taxes should be increased on corporations and […]
Days before former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., told protesters in Minnesota that if the defendant wasn’t convicted, they should “get more confrontational.” Republicans rebuked Waters for her remarks, saying she was inciting violence, although their censure motion failed […]
Conservative radio show host Ben Shapiro and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp blamed Democrats for Major League Baseball moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia in response to a new voting law. Shapiro said that voting rights activist Stacey Abrams “suddenly” said MLB shouldn’t move the game. He said that President Joe Biden “overtly suggested” that […]
Question: Are New York’s voter laws more restrictive than Georgia’s? Answer: In some ways yes. In some ways no. But comparing them as they are now leaves out some important context. When Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game from Georgia in response to the state’s new voting law, some Republicans countered that MLB ought […]
Georgia’s new voting law has ignited a fight over whether the law expands or shrinks access to the ballot. Republican lawmakers changed voting rules after Democrats won 2020 and 2021 statewide races thanks to strong turnout among Black voters. A few major corporations broadly attacked the law, but the most significant action came from Major […]
President Joe Biden blamed Donald Trump for the surge of migrants at the southwest border, saying his predecessor dismantled the country’s immigration system and failed to provide enough beds for child migrants. At the first press conference of his presidency, Biden downplayed the number of migrants crossing the border, saying past years had seen similar […]
As pandemic shutdowns and fear flooded the United States last spring, it brought with it a wave of hate crimes and incidents targeting Asian Americans. Some were prosecuted as hate crimes, such as a woman in the Bronx who was hit on the head with an umbrella as her assailants used anti-Asian comments. Other incidents […]
Hours after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, he gave his first prime-time presidential address to mark the anniversary of shutdowns across the nation — and to give Americans hope that the pandemic-era losses would soon come to an end. “This country will be vaccinated soon,” Biden said. “Our economy will […]