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Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power. Cue the rise of protest laws, which take the government’s intolerance for free speech to a whole new level and send the resounding message that resistance is futile.
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A retired judge is taking an extrajudicial approach to protect the identity of two alleged sexual-harassment victims of a member of the Augusta County Board of Supervisors who resigned his seat last year.
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The retired judge who in January ordered Augusta County to turn over a copy of the recording of an illegally-held Board of Supervisors meeting has, curiously, now reversed course.
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An awards gala honoring Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk for their leadership was abruptly cancelled this week after fierce objections.
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In the US there are elections because of our Constitution. There is political bantering over everything, including whether the US is much of a democracy or not.
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The U.S. military is being used to patrol subway stations and police the U.S.-Mexico border, supposedly in the name of national security.
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The Republican Party has seemingly selected its candidate for president, Donald Trump, setting up a rematch of 2020. Not everyone who supports the GOP is automatically signing on to support the former president.
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This year’s presidential election, much like every other election in recent years, is what historian Daniel Boorstin referred to as a “pseudo-event.”
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While working part-time as a tour guide at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Heather Cole thought of an idea for a nonfiction book.
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Although the popular new Netflix film, Einstein and the Bomb, purports to tell the story of the great physicist’s relationship to nuclear weapons, it ignores his vital role in rallying the world against nuclear catastrophe.
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