Listen to an audio version of this story below: Madison, Wisconsin. A blustery Friday evening. A few thousand supporters of Vermont senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are gathered in James Madison Park, along the shores of Lake Mendota. Though it’s April, it’s cold as hell. A group of Bern …
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Jerry Nadler, the New York Representative who is the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, sure thinks so. He said last week, after the White House refused to release the full version of the Mueller report, “Certainly, it’s a constitutional crisis.” He added that the country is “in one because …
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Chaos broke out at the NRA’s annual convention in Indianapolis last week. The gun group’s figurehead president, Oliver North, backed by its longtime PR firm Ackerman McQueen, allegedly tried to oust the NRA’s powerful CEO, Wayne LaPierre. But LaPierre hit back — forcing North to step down, while winning unanimous …
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During the many months Joe Biden spent deciding whether or not he was going to jump into the race for president — as his handling of Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearings was reconsidered, as photos of him encroaching on various women’s personal space were dredged up and as several of those …
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In a two-minute video posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Joe Biden responded to the criticism that he’s overstepped boundaries and acted inappropriately with women who have come into his orbit. The debate was touched off last week when Lucy Flores, a former Nevada assemblywoman, wrote an essay recounting an uncomfortable …
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President Trump called into Hannity on Wednesday night for his first interview since Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed his final report to the Justice Department. It’s probably inaccurate to refer to this segment as an “interview.” The call, which lasted nearly 45 minutes, consisted mostly of Trump aimlessly cycling through …
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It’s finally official: After months of teasing a follow-up to his sensational — if ultimately unsuccessful — 2018 Senate bid, Beto O’Rourke confirmed to El Paso TV station KTSM Wednesday that he is setting his sights on an even higher office. “I’m really proud of what El Paso did and …
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Former Trump employees have warned that as objectionable as the president may sound in public, he’s even worse behind closed doors. Such was the case last Friday when Trump spoke to Republican National Committee donors at Mar-a-Lago. According to Axios, organizers were so concerned with Trump’s private comments leaking that …
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Less than one week after New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer published a thoroughly reported exposé about Fox News, its former president resigned suddenly from his top White House job. Bill Shine, President Trump’s communications chief and his deputy chief of staff, will reportedly now put his energy and time …
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WASHINGTON — The raw numbers are staggering: 45 million Americans owe $1.56 trillion in student loan debt, more than all of the credit card or auto-loan debt combined. The bulk of that student debt, more than $1.1 trillion, is in the hands of Uncle Sam. Specifically, a little-known office within …
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