Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a Washington Post reporter in January 2021 that an upside-down American flag recently flown on their flagpole was “an…
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Progressive Democrats aren’t turning activism into election wins
Despite the intense focus the past couple of months on pro-Palestinian protests, many of which were championed by the far-left wing of the Democratic Party, the self-proclaimed progressive bloc has…
Special counsel seeks court order limiting Trump’s false claims about FBI
Special counsel Jack Smith filed court papers Friday asking a judge to order Donald Trump not to make any further incendiary claims suggesting that FBI agents were “complicit in a…
Is the New York trial changing minds about Trump’s guilt?
In an immediate sense, it doesn’t matter at all whether Americans think Donald Trump is guilty of the charges filed against him in New York. That legal determination will be…
Asked to pick between reality and Trump, the right’s choice is easy
There’s a large region of the right-wing media ecosystem that is littered with those always-disappointing carbon-snake fireworks. Touch one of them with a spark and it springs to life, pushing…
Democrats press Chief Justice Roberts to address ethics at Supreme Court
Two Democratic senators are calling on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to take immediate steps to ensure that Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. does not participate in a pair…
Nikki Haley is a very specific (and very typical) type of Trump voter
Nikki Haley’s bid for the Republican nomination was not as simple as it has often been perceived. It involved a number of different and conflicting motivations: depicting Donald Trump as…
Even Donald Trump has trouble getting New York’s attention
NEW YORK — You could hear Donald Trump sporadically through the trees. Crotona Park has number of rocky hills, and the former president was speaking on top of one as…
Trump suggests Nikki Haley will be on his team ‘in some form’ after vote pledge
Former president Donald Trump suggested that Nikki Haley would have a place on his team “in some form” — in what appeared to be his first public response to his…
Supreme Court’s South Carolina ruling boosts GOP, with national implications
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed South Carolina to use a congressional map that a lower court had said weakened Black voting rights, bolstering the political fortunes of Republicans as…