Politics, Corruption & Criminality

Like our own far-right Republicans, Putin, famously obsessed with history, has been talking about the creation of national history textbooks since 2013.

Gender-obsessed Florida House Republicans want insurance companies to pay for debunked psychiatric conversion therapy for trans kids.

It's one thing for corporations to pass reasonable increased costs to consumers. It's another for them to line their coffers by exploiting Americans who are just trying to get by.

The Koch network has gotten behind Nikki Haley in a big way, having already conducted interviews with 6 million Republican voters, and will use that data to formulate strategy.

“Selling out” evokes a widespread fear that anyone who pursues success will corrupt both their morality and their community. Some, too many, politicians and billionaires seem to be able to suppress this concern.

Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank are among the books that the Escambia County School District has yanked from library shelves.

Since 2022, most abortions in Florida were currently banned after 15 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest. That's too long a period for Rep. David Borrero.

A media and disinformation expert explains the danger of political violence orchestrated over social media, especially by a sitting president.

Kennedy’s movement exemplifies the resonance of conspiratorial views. Misinformers with organized efforts are rewarded with money and loyalty. But that doesn’t make the claims true.

Election officials in Maine and Colorado have been receiving a stream of threats and attempts at intimidation including hoax emergency calls following decisions to remove Trump from their ballots for insurrection.

Proponents of ranked choice voting—including the former Idaho governor—argue that it would make politics nice again. Republicans fear it could break their 60-year strangle hold on the state.

An environmental rule finalized in November requires states to set emissions reduction targets. And Republicans have a big problem with this.

In spite of Trump's Hail Mary pass of claiming Constitutional immunity, the idea is not on firm legal ground. And then there's the fact that he's really claiming to be above the law...

Between Agenda 47 and Project 2025, Donald Trump and the rightwing billionaires who own the GOP have big plans for this nation, regardless of which Republican takes the White House next.

Florida's Attorney General Ashley Moody asserts that the state has control over school library books. And that teachers and students do not have free speech rights.

Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees.