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.
For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.
To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was.
Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.
It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.
The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. As a legal document, it appears to be little more than a political stunt.
Randa Jarrar was classless and contemptible, which is protected by the First Amendment. As a tenured state employee so is her job.
Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.
Even the United Nations has given up trying to maintain an accurate estimate.
Once again, President Trump’s foreign policy tweeting is causing problems.
Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”
President Trump took to Twitter this morning and decided poke a stick in the eye of the Russian bear.
Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.
You many have noticed the array of images and links under the footer of post pages. Here’s what it is.
Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.
A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.
Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.
A blog post and resulting Twitter exchange point to a larger problem in our political dialog.
The woman who wounded three people at the video company before killing herself posted insane rants all over social media.
News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.