New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.
Alex Jones lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.
President Trump reportedly vetoed a plan to issue a statement lauding Senator John McCain after he died on Saturday.
One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.
Max Boot proclaims “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud.”
Venezuela has arrested two military officers in connection with the alleged assassination attempt on President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.
The former CIA Director has been stripped of his access to classified information after repeatedly criticizing the President.
As much as we hate paying $200 a month for television, the future is likely going to be worse.
White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.
The first night of games in the N.F.L. pre-season included some sporadic protests during the National Anthem, and prompted a predictable response from the President.
Andy Bitter has taken a new job but his former employer thinks it owns his social media account.
Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
In what amounts to a significant, albeit not surprising, change in Catholic doctrine, Pope Francis has declared that the death penalty is unacceptable in all circumstances.
One of the biggest names in Hollywood stands accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women in yet another ground-breaking report by Ronan Farrow.
In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.
It took less than twenty-four hours for President Trump to essentially repudiate his purported attempt to walk back the appalling comments he made in Helsinki.
Mariia Butina, a Russian “gun rights activist, is accused of being an unregistered agent of the Russian government and attempting to influence Republican Party policies regarding Russia in an operation that pre-dates the Trump Presidential campaign.
Another incident involving what clearly seems to be the inappropriate use of force against an African-American man.
Jarrod Ramos should have been in jail, let alone allowed to have any weapon more dangerous than a butter knife.
A man with a grudge against the Annapolis Capital Gazette killed five people in the newsroom.
Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.
The White Male Great American Literary Novelist for the 21st Century is not a fan of modern realities.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia last night, and the incident raises questions of how far we should let politics infiltrate everyday life.
The 100-mile Constitution-free zone strikes again.
The crying Honduran girl who has become a symbol of a brutal policy actually is not one of its victims.
The President continues to enjoy enthusiastic support from the over-65 set.
President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.
The Trump Administration’s new legal position on coverage for people with pre-existing conditions could pose political problems in the fall.
Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
President Trump has unblocked Twitter users, but at the same time his lawyers are appealing the ruling that he can’t block Twitter users.
More than a decade ago, Donald Trump revealed one of his secrets to success. Exhaust your enemies. It explains much of what has happened since he took office.
A long-overdue overhaul of the way the United States vets those who access classified information is underway.
The President teased the Jobs Report an hour before it was officially released. This was both a violation of Federal law, and yet another example of this President violating long-established norms governing how politicians are supposed to act.
Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.
Hours after she unleashed a racist Twitter tirade, Roseanne Barr has had her show canceled by ABC. Of course, ABC knew who it was doing business with well before today.
American companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new privacy regulation, with many outlets choosing to simply block access abroad.
We have a generation of schoolkids who aren’t even surprised when there’s a shooting at their school. That’s a problem.
A Federal Judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from reading his tweets.
The Internet is a global platform. Should every country’s laws apply to everyone using it?
The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.
Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.
New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.
The Mueller investigation turns one year old today and, despite the arguments of Trump and his supporters, there’s no sign that it will be coming to an end in the near future.
A surprise announcement about the First Lady.
The Trump White House has leaked more than any in recent memory. Some of the leakers have explained what motivates them.
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