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Donald Trump's impeachment is headed to the U.S. Senate, where Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over the trial. The Senate will serve as a jury, and the Constitution requires them to do so "on oath or affirmation." The Senate Rules spell out the...

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has long been hemorrhaging money. And now, it has been revealed that its financial deals have been the epitome of shady and a misuse of their tax-exempt status. An explosive investigative report in April 2019 revealed...

Great Thunberg did not plan to be a hero. She's a 16-year-old Swedish girl who is fed up that the world has neglected the growing crisis of climate change, and she demands action. "Adults keep saying: We owe it to the young people to give them hope," said...

The Mueller report clearly showed that Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice, but he was not indicted due to long-standing precedent that a sitting president cannot be indicted. And if Trump avoids impeachment (or removal), and gets re-elected in...

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has proven time and again that he is only there to be Donald Trump's private attorney, even if that runs counter to the interests of the United States. After special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his two-year...

The United States Postal Service’s public service mission has made it the country’s most popular federal agency. <strong>Now, thanks to the Trump administration, the USPS is under threat.</strong> In 2018, the White House announced a destructive...

On May 23, the NFL adopted new rules requiring that players who kneel in protest during the national anthem must either remain in the locker room or face “discipline” if they do not “stand and show respect for the flag or the Anthem.” This is a shameful...

The Trump administration has said it will issue new rules to make major cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (more commonly known as SNAP). This will be absolutely devastating to the 37 million individuals who face food insecurity and...

Rep. Devin Nunes—ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee—sat through two weeks of Trump impeachment hearings, despite apparently being a willing accomplice in the bribery scheme at the heart of the investigation. In November 2018, Nunes...

In what could dangerously alter the 2020 election, Facebook has recently decided to exempt political ads from its general prohibition on false content. Soon after this policy change, Donald Trump's re-election campaign made a $1.5 million ad buy on...

In 2016, Donald Trump won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. According to post-election numbers, though,<strong> </strong>Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.9 million. In other words,...

In the year since he was confirmed to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh has kept a low profile—or as low a profile a perpetrator of sexual violence could keep. But now, Kavanaugh is stepping back into the spotlight. On November 14, he was a keynote...

The U.S. House has voted to impeach Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The evidence is overwhelming, and he deserves to be removed from office. But the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is full of Trump loyalists, hell-bent on...

The Trump Administration plans to divert $271 million in federal disaster aid to beef up funding for ICE detention facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security explained this in a letter to Congress—not seeking permission, but...

<strong>The House has voted to impeach Donald Trump! Now we must pivot our focus to the Senate, who must vote to convict and remove him from office. </strong> Donald Trump has not only abused his power and breached our trust, he also endangered our...

In February, Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2019 (H.R.1384) in Congress. <strong>The Medicare for All Act is the health care legislation we need.</strong> It is a comprehensive, ambitious plan to provide universal health...

Four Google employees have been fired for allegedly looking at documents they were not allowed to review. They were also organizing co-workers into a union. In August, nearly 1,500 Google employees signed a petition urging the company not to enter into a...

Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax proposal is making billionaires panic. Bill Gates is freaking out, and Mike Bloomberg has filed to run for President. Wealth managers are reporting that their billionaire clients are looking at ways to avoid paying it. ...

Donald Trump has been impeached, and the next step is for the Senate to hold a trial. But some Republicans won't even <em>pretend</em> to fairly judge the evidence. "I will do everything I can to make it die quickly," said Senate Judiciary Chairman...

Rep. John Lewis announced on December 29 that he was diagnosed with cancer and will soon start undergoing treatments. This will not be the first time that John Lewis has faced terrifying odds. Lewis has been fighting for the rights of the disenfranchised...