Category: Politics

Thirty-six years ago, the NAACP had an opportunity to block Clarence Thomas’ path to the Supreme Court. But after a secret meeting between the Black Republican rising star and Althea Simmons, the civil rights organization’s Washington Bureau director, the NAACP blinked. Now, as the nation awaits the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, a […]

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In front of over 30,000 young Christian devotees at the Turning Point USA America Fest held last December in Phoenix, a high-profile firefight broke out among far-right MAGA influencers—including Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson – that could help shape the future of the Republican Party, the Christian Right and their hold on power in 2026. […]

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When it comes to economics, we know two things about Donald Trump. He is obsessed with the US trade deficit. And he thinks tariffs, or import taxes, will solve the trade deficit problem. Trump is wrong on both counts. The trade deficit is not a pressing problem facing the US economy. And to the extent […]

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One of the first major decisions of the Supreme Court under John Roberts’s tenure as Chief Justice came in 2007 in Gonzales v. Carhart, a landmark case that upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. But Roberts had been on the (undisclosed) record as critical of Roe v. Wade since at least 1981. That […]

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Here’s the story of contemporary Iran in a nutshell: A decade ago, Iran was relatively stable, led by a reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, who’d just signed a nuclear agreement with half a dozen world powers, including the United States. Its economy, long plagued by economic sanctions imposed most emphatically by the United States, began to […]

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