New College president Corcoran used the Elmer Fudd approach to problems: “Be vewwwy vewwwy quiet.” Right after the students left campus for the summer, machines rumbled in began knocking trees down like so many bowling pins.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
MAGA activists are relying on a constellation of dark money-backed software programs to generate thousands of voter challenges.
Economic boycotts by Black residents in Southern cities such as Birmingham and Nashville, Tennessee, played crucial roles during the civil rights era.
I got on to God and said, OK, sure, don’t commit adultery, but shouldn’t there be some amendments, like what if your wife just had a baby, and some hot porn star who looks like your very voluptuous daughter is ready and willing?
There’s plenty of bad or misleading information about elections out there, but an impending Supreme Court ruling may determine the limits of government’s power to contain these falsehoods online.
Many journalists and political scientists view populism as a “cultural backlash” of conservative white men who fear the loss of their privilege in a diversifying world.
Even as conversations focus on Project 2025 and Trump's promise to become a dictator, it's important to revisit how poorly he ran things as a cure to the public's apparent Trumpnesia.
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.
The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.
Georgia state leaders have compromised the safeguards that protected the integrity of the vote in 2020.
Trump Fundraising off of Conviction While Sinking Millions of Dollars in Donor Funds for Legal Costs
As allegations against Trump mount and the costs of defense rise, his campaign and political committees have quickly ramped up legal spending—and fundraising efforts to cover those expenses.
No matter how hard Republicans try to reinvent the Founders and Framers in the image of their libertarian billionaire patrons, the reality is that America was history’s first great liberal experiment.
Armed groups in Arizona and Texas are collaborating with and courting police and immigration agents—with alarming results.
Kari Lake's unceasing efforts to overturn her 2022 election loss are as unabated as Donald Trump and his complaints about losing in 2020. And seem to be just as destructive to attorneys.
The Rice’s whale is the only one that lives entirely in the Gulf of Mexico—a species definitely endangered. And Matt Gaetz wants Congress to OK the military bombing the heck out of them.
Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.