The Georgia state election board is set to meet on Friday and consider another round of last-minute election changes that could cause delays and confusion after election day in a critical battleground state.The Republican majority on the board is expected to a... More »
The 2024 presidential election is approaching, but the legal battle over how the 2020 race was covered by right-wing channel Newsmax isn’t going away quietly.On Sept. 30, Newsmax will head into a Deleware court to defend itself against a defamation lawsuit fil... More »
Kamala Harris will give remarks on Friday in the Atlanta area about Donald Trump’s role in the abortion bans that now blanket much of the United States, days after news broke that two Georgia mothers died after being unable to access legal abortions and adequa... More »
Labelling tweets featuring false claims about election fraud as “disputed” does little to nothing to change Trump voters’ pre-existing beliefs, and it may make them more likely to believe the lies, according to a new study.The study, authored by John Blanchard... More »
Washington — As President Biden prepares to close out his four years in the White House, he is on track to match or even surpass the former President Donald Trump's total number of judicial confirmations.Appointments to the federal bench have taken on added im... More »
At the tender age of 5, Mike Marino saw “The Elephant Man” for the first time and his life was forever changed. When David Lynch’s haunting and heartbreaking story of the disfigured John Merrick would air on HBO in the early 1980s, Marino found himself horrifi... More »
Since the 1970s, the state of New Jersey has regulated sunblock as an over-the-counter medication, which means it can be prohibited in schools, according to state lawmakers.State Assemb. Nancy Munoz, R-Union, put forward a bill Wednesday directing schools to a... More »
On Television“La Maison” Is a Frothy Portrait of the Rich and FashionableApple TV+’s soi-disant succession drama may gesture at weighty themes, but it’s soapier—and often more fun—than its prestige counterparts.By Inkoo KangSeptember 20, 2024Vincent Ledu, the ... More »
Second ReadThe Banned Irish Writer Who Mined the Pain and Perks of Mid-Century MasculinityYears after John McGahern became the center of a national censorship debate, his novel “The Pornographer” cast an impassive eye on death, sex, and patriarchal repression.... More »
Donald Trump’s tariff proposal is worse than even his critics say. Much worse. Trump keeps telling audiences that he’s going to make China and other countries pay taxes to the American government. As even right-wing economists are acknowledging, that’s utter n... More »
Whenever Missouri megapreacher Mike Bickle received prophecies from God, he tended to shout the good news from the rooftops. But there was one recurring vision that he only shared with a few people. In the early 1980s, Bickle—who would go on to found Internati... More »
The Political SceneThe Last Stand of the Rural DemocratsOnly around a million people live in Montana, but the state will likely determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.By E. Tammy KimSeptember 20, 2024The Democratic incumbent Jon Tester (left) is bei... More »