Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, well known for supporting the Jan 6 insurrection and then sprinting for his life away from the rioters, has now published a book on manliness.
This "debt ceiling" isn't a crisis. It is a plot: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House.
Poet Amanda Gorman provided a beautiful and promising vision for America, and Florida under DeSantis banned it. In running for President, he now offers this nightmare to the rest of the country.
The billionaires and large corporations backing "No Labels" are deeply invested in maintaining the status quo and opposing Democrats' agenda for working people.
Patriot Front Nazis paid an unannounced visit to the Capital, though surrounded by police. Joe Flood noticed there were no counter protestors. So he picked up the job by himself, quite effectively.
Lacking any core beliefs or principles other than obeisance to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry, the Republican Party has become one giant grift, and the USA is its mark.
Billionaires spending a billion dollars on a shopping spree for democracy should wake us all up to the threat posed by nearly unlimited wealth applied without limits to our elections.
Despite the White House's lofty rhetoric, it is actively bolstering the military power of a majority of the world's authoritarian countries, from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to dozens of others.
Americans are being left food insecure and have to skip meals while corporations and their wealthy shareholders enjoy the spoils of supersized profits under unjustified price hikes.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has said she will sign legislation which will permit children as young as 14 to work in more dangerous trades including roofing, construction, and demolition.