A handful of conservative news sites, including numerous anti-abortion sites and the National Review, are reporting that California has been forced to drop 14 of the 15 the felony charges against David Daleiden, the man behind the heavily edited Planned Parenthood “sting videos,” and partner Sandra Merritt. The sites…

After weeks of closed-door hearings, Senate Republican leaders have finally released a draft of their health care bill. The bill, tentatively called the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017,” eliminates the individual mandate requiring Americans to have insurance, makes deep cuts to Medicaid, and would phase out…

The Keepers isn’t much of a true crime documentary, at least in the traditional sense of the genre. And that’s to its immense credit. Netflix’s seven-part docudrama flirts with the genre but resists its pitfalls; this series is no whodunit, no he-said-she-said narrative that concludes with neat resolution. Instead,…

“Her case is cyclothymia, dating from the age of seven and a half. She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently,” James Joyce wrote in a 1936 letter concerning his daughter, Lucia Joyce. “Her character is gay, sweet and ironic, but has had bursts of anger over nothing when she has been confined to a…

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“Hysterical,” is how CNN pundit Jason Miller described Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Tuesday night.

Five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (LA), were shot Wednesday morning during a Congressional baseball practice. According to reports, a gunman walked up to practice and opened fire on the baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia.

During an often contentious hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Attorney General Jeff Sessions began by asserting his innocence, insisting that the allegations that he failed to disclose meetings with the Russian ambassador were lies. “I have never met with or had any conversations with any Russians or…

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While former FBI Director James Comey was testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, House Speaker Paul Ryan made a statement during a press conference that the “FBI director needs to be independent,” adding that the problem was not that President Trump had crossed legal and ethical lines, but simply that…

In a candid and direct opening statement, former FBI Director James Comey said that the Trump administration “defame[d]” him, the FBI, and lied to the American people.

Summer is the season of vacation and beach reads. It’s supposed to be a relaxing season but, for the last few years, an increasingly divided America has had its restful summer torn from them, caught up in the most important of culture clashes: the annual summer battle of the famous Chrises.

“Why I Disagree With My Dad,” the latest cover of Us Weekly announces in bold, yellow letters beneath a wire photograph of Ivanka Trump. The cover, which promises that “Ivanka takes a stand,” is an oversell of the story inside of the magazine. Instead of a profile of the White House aide/daughter of the President, Us…

Here is a fundamental truth about Donald Trump and his children: Everything they touch, no matter how seemingly well-intentioned, is done with the singular purpose of turning a profit. While Midas’s touch may have originally been a curse, a mythological tale meant to warn about the ultimately fatal price of greed, for…

Since our national longing has, for some inexplicable reason, turned its eye toward the 1990s insisting that slip dresses, plaid, and chokers are fashionable again, it seems only natural that the ’90s nostalgia would lead us back to the scandals of the Clinton Administration. According to Deadline, Amazon will be the…

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While we’re waiting for Wonder Woman to start, my mom tells me a “when I was young” story that I’ve heard a thousand times. The details of the story—cobbled from memories now 50 years old—shift slightly but the fundamentals remain the same: every couple of months or so, her mother would drive her to the Greyhound…

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An “absolutely toxic co-worker,” “singularly dishonest,” “smarmy,” and a “sociopath”: these are just a few of the ways that Senator Al Franken describes Senator Ted Cruz in his new book, Al Franken: Giant of the Senate.