Kill the Bill  —  Members of Congress have begun to say explicitly in the last couple days what I think has been clear for weeks and months.  Kyrsten Sinema's multiple trips to the White House yesterday just confirms it.  She's not negotiating about any of this in good faith.

Trump donor: Corey Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances  —  A Donald Trump donor is accusing Corey Lewandowski, one of the former president's longtime top aides, of making unwanted sexual advances toward her at a Las Vegas charity event over the weekend.

Kristi Noem Shows Why Republicans Can't Have Nice Things  —  Exclusive: Sources reveal the South Dakota governor and potential 2024 VP candidate is having an extramarital affair with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.  —  Multiple sources have informed American Greatness …

YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content  —  The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.  Facebook made the same change months ago.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is taking …

Dowd for Texas Announcement  —  Matthew Dowd announces his campaign for Texas Lt Governor and end the reign of the cruel and craven GOP incumbent.  He says enough is enough and it is time t...

Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?  —  The show's new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason's Role in Human Progress … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.  —  For someone who so frequently and serenely proclaims that he's right, Steven Pinker can get curiously defensive.

Why Biden Is Patient as Democrats Panic  —  A faint but discernible note of alarm has been slipping into Democrats' chatter about the 2022 and 2024 elections.  President Joe Biden's approval ratings have slumped to their lowest levels since his inauguration.  His governing coalition is splintering over the Haitian migrant crisis.

Trump plans to sue to keep White House records on Capitol attack secret  —  Legal strategy could delay and possibly stymie efforts by House select committee into Capitol attacks to see key documents  —  Donald Trump is preparing to sue to block the release of White House records …

Exxon Mobil has been lobbying against parts of Democrats' big social and climate spending bill  — Exxon Mobil has been lobbying against pieces of a sprawling Democratic budget bill aimed at boosting working class families and fighting climate change.  — The fossil fuel giant …

Friends from Ohio get 45 days in jail for Capitol riot  —  Two friends from Ohio have been sentenced to 45 days in jail for storming the U.S. Capitol together in January  —  COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Federal prosecutors assert that everybody who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 …

Abortion rights supporters vow fight against Ohio bill making abortion illegal if U.S. Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio -During an Ohio Senate committee's first hearing on a bill that would make abortion almost entirely illegal in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade …

America Is Having a Violence Wave, Not a Crime Wave  —  A historic rise in homicides in 2020—and continued bloodshed in 2021—has incited fears that after years of plummeting crime rates, the U.S. could be headed back to the bad old days, when a crime wave gripped the country from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Roanoke College Poll: Va. Governor's race, COVID-19 and more  —  Former Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe maintains a 7-percentage point lead over Republican Glenn Youngkin (48%-41%) with 9% undecided in the race for Virginia governor, according to The Roanoke College Poll.

Critical Race Theory Bans Are Expanding To Cover Broad Collection Of Issues  —  The conservative cancel culture panic over “critical race theory” in schools is continuing to spread.  But while some school districts are correctly pointing out that CRT is not taught in their system …

Voodoo math: Media mostly fails to challenge Biden's ‘zero-dollar cost’ infrastructure  —  “My ‘Build Back Better’ agenda costs zero dollars.  Instead of wasting money on tax breaks, loopholes and tax evasion for big corporations and the wealthy, we can make a once-in-a-generation investment in working America.”

Wisconsin GOP lawmakers want superintendent, treasurer and secretary of state appointed, not elected  —  MADISON - Republican lawmakers are proposing to eliminate elections for the state superintendent, state treasurer and secretary of state and instead allow governors to appoint those positions.

Trump Still Faces a Reckoning in New York  —  Court documents and interviews indicate that the Manhattan District Attorney is accumulating evidence of pervasive tax fraud.  —  Last Monday, eighty days after their first courtroom appearance in a case known as The People of the State of New York v …

The Most Dangerous Man in America  —  Gen. Mark Milley is ambitious, incompetent, progressive, and wildly self-assured.  —  Four-star General Mark A. Milley, 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces, is a walking answer to the unasked question …

Senate parliamentarian rules out Democrats' immigration Plan B  —  The Senate parliamentarian has nixed Democrats' back-up plan for getting immigration reform into a sweeping spending bill, handing them a second setback.  —  Democrats had pitched parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough …

Arson suspect sought after throwing ‘molotov cocktail’ into Travis County Democrats' Austin office  —  Austin arson officials are investigating after a man wearing a U.S. flag bandana threw an incendiary device and possibly a rock into the Travis County Democratic Party's East Sixth Street office early Wednesday.

Sen. Marshall, Doctors Caucus send letter to CDC urging recognition of COVID-19 natural immunity  —  Physicians called on CDC to ‘truly determine’ a person's immunity to the novel coronavirus  —  Concha on CDC Director Walensky being the ‘wrong COVID-19 messenger’

The Age of America First … Donald Trump was supposed to be an aberration—a U.S. president whose foreign policy marked a sharp but temporary break from an internationalism that had defined seven decades of U.S. interactions with the world.  He saw little value in alliances and spurned multilateral institutions.

BLM NY: We need some George Floyd-style protests against vaccine mandates  —  When a scuffle broke out at Carmine's Restaurant in New York City earlier this month involving some unvaccinated Black customers, there were immediate accusations of racist policies making the rounds.