After Relaxing Shut-Down Measures, Texas and Florida Face Predictable COVID-19 Spike
Only weeks after shirking guidelines from health officials, cases are spiking in a handful of Southern states. In the first Coronavirus Task Force Press Briefing in nearly two months, Dr. Anthony Fauci the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned that the flares up put the rest of the country at […]
Tuesday Primary Results from New York, North Carolina, and Kentucky
Voters in New York, Kentucky, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Virginia took to the polls on Tuesday in a series of competitive primary races. Unlike the hectic and primaries that took place earlier in the month in Pennsylvania and Georgia, Tuesday’s contentious races occurred without many hitches. Some long lines with waits up to […]
Corruption Scandals Plague Trump Administration Amid Bolton and Barr Revelations
A week of scandals that might have destroyed any previous Presidency has shaken the Trump administration. Beginning with the release of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s tell-all book and culminating in a failed power play by Attorney General William Barr, a steady picture of corruption, obstruction of justice, and turmoil has spilled out of […]
Tensions Worsen on Korean Peninsula After Pyongyang Destroys Liason Office
On Tuesday, North Korea blew up their joint liaison office with South Korea in an act of unprecedented aggression in recent years. The office, which is in North Korea just north of the Demilitarized Zone, was a symbol of a new era of peace on the peninsula. The office had been closed since the start […]
Police Reform Bills Sweep the Nation in Wake of Protests
Two weeks of non-stop Black Lives Matter protests across the United States are starting to yield results. Protesters are demanding massive change, including defunding police forces entirely. While most localities are not willing to go that far, police reform bills are being proposed at nearly every level of governance. In cities, on the state level, […]
Georgia Primary Crippled by Claims of suppression
Georgia, an important swing state in November, faced major technical and logistical problems in Tuesday’s primary. Voters reported lines up to six hours line, sometimes wrapping around entire blocks, at polling places. Fulton County, which is home to Atlanta and has a large black population, faced some of the worse delays. Voters reported technical problems […]
Trump Losing Support Among Republican and Military Establishment Leadership
Reporting by the New York Times indicates that President Trump may be losing support among prominent Republican establishment leaders in 2020. While Trump won in 2016 without Republican establishment support, critics of the President hope that a collective rebuke of his leadership may help turn the tide against him. Outspoken critics have included Former U.S. […]
White Supremacist Iowa Rep Stephen King Defeated in Primary, and Other Election Results
Tuesday’s Republican primary in Iowa marked the end of Stephen King nine-term career in Congress representing Iowa’s 4th district. The incumbent was defeated by challenger Randy Feenstra by a decisive margin of nearly 10 points. The loss comes after Republican leadership stripped King of his committee assignments last year following remarks defending white supremacy. “White […]
Protests Continue Across The US
Protests and riots continue to rage across the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. Floyd was a black man in Minneapolis who was arrested for a non-violent crime and was unarmed. One of the four officers involved has been charged in his death. Protests began over Memorial Day weekend and […]
Trump Lashes Out at Twitter With Executive Order on Social Media
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order aiming to remove some protections online platforms currently have under the Communications Decency Act. The legality of the order is contested but, if upheld, it would make it easier for users to bring civil lawsuits against companies for censorship based on political views. The executive order comes […]
