While bomb threats forced elementary and middle schools in Springfield, Ohio, to evacuate Friday for a second day, the state’s attorney general was amplifying the conspiracy theory that likely prompted those bomb threats in the first place. Despite lacking any firm evidence, and in the face of clear denials from city officials, Ohio Attorney General … Read more
When Donald Trump attempts to defend his unpopular but ever-changing stance on abortion, he never fails to come back to his safest talking point: He allowed the states to decide how to regulate abortion. He presents it as a shining example of simply letting democracy flourish. “It’s the vote of the people now,” he said … Read more
WASHINGTON — Several far-right Republicans have come out against a plan by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to pair must-pass government funding with a bill targeting the supposed threat of widespread noncitizen voting. At least six Republicans have said they would vote against the bill, which is likely more than Johnson can lose without having … Read more
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s endorsement of the current vice president, Kamala Harris, for president is clearly extraordinary. Never in modern American political history has such a high-ranking political figure crossed party lines to endorse a presidential candidate. Considering how much Cheney and the Democratic Party mutually loathed each other from 2001 until just a … Read more
WASHINGTON — When Kamala Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination at the Democratic convention last month, several former presidents, vice presidents and nominees to these posts came together in a show of public support for her bid for the White House. Barack Obama. Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). President Joe Biden, who … Read more
The chaotic exit of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, with its images of desperate Afghan citizens trying to clamber aboard American planes and a suicide bombing that took the lives of 13 U.S. troops, marked the beginning of the end for President Joe Biden’s presidential approval ratings. Three years later, with Biden off … Read more
Indian Americans are in the spotlight in the US presidential election. Pro-Trump Vivek Ramaswamy and Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of Republican Party vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, have created waves in the media. But the focus of Indian Americans is Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, a Baptist Christian married to a Jew who was born … Read more
Usha Chilukuri Vance loves her “meat and potatoes” husband, JD Vance. She explained to a rapt Republican National Convention audience how their vice-presidential candidate adapted to her vegetarian diet and even learned to cook Indian food from her immigrant mother. That image of her white, Christian husband making the spicy cuisine of her parents’ native … Read more
Former President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Republicans in Congress should shut down the government next month. Trump said that if Democrats won’t agree to legislation barring noncitizens from voting ― something that rarely happens because it’s already illegal ― then Republicans should block legislation funding basic operations of the federal government. “I would … Read more
Duncan, a frequent Trump critic since the then-president tried to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election count — declared that the Republican nominee’s actions disqualified him from “ever, ever, ever stepping foot into the Oval Office again. “If Republicans are being intellectually honest with ourselves, our party is not civil or conservative. It’s chaotic and crazy. And … Read more
