Politics

If you are a woman of limited means living in the state of Maine, and you find yourself pregnant, there’s a good chance you’ll end up at one of 18 Maine Family Planning clinics scattered around the state. As the sole Title X-funded program in Maine, MFP is, essentially, the …

After apologizing and admitting he appeared in a photo of two people—one in blackface, the other in a Ku Klux Klan hood—that was published on his personal page in his medical school yearbook, Virginia governor Ralph Northam will now claim it is not him in the image, theNew York Times’sJonathan …

Racism and Republicanism been bedfellows for generations now, and advocates of both ideals have had their reasons for seeing the government fail. Few things have helped spark racial and economic progress, such that it is, like the bedrock legislation of the 1960s. Court decisions and federal programs have helped inch …

The Supreme Court allowed President Trump’s ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military to go into effect Tuesday morning, ostracizing thousands of active service members and sparking another divisive controversy in American politics. There are an estimated 150,000 transgender United States veterans, according to a UCLA Williams Institute …

Lock him up! Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending that President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, face prison time for lying about his interactions with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the tail end of the Obama administration. Flynn has already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about …

President Trump awoke Friday morning once again displeased with the state of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation into his campaign’s relationship with Russia. In what may have been his most full-throated condemnation of the probe and those involved yet, the president structured his early-morning tirade around the absurd question of whether …

There are many Bryan Stevenson quotes to live by, but there is one that I keep at my desk. The civil rights attorney who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, published a book in 2014 called Just Mercy. In the introduction, Stevenson notes that his work with the …

Jerome Corsi thinks he’s taking the high road. The conspiracy theorist staring down a perjury indictment said on Monday that he’drather “sit in prison and rot” than take the plea deal offered to him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his “thugs.” Mueller’s office reportedly has proof that Corsi lied …

WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours after Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives, Attorney General Jeff Sessions became the first casualty of President Trump’s post-election cabinet purge.Sessions announced his decision to quiton Wednesday. “At your request, I am submitting my resignation,” he wrote. Trump said in a tweet …

Beloved San Antonio Spurs coach and outspoken progressive Gregg Popovich donned a Beto O’Rourke hat at practice on Friday, and the next day confirmed his support for the Democratic congressman who hopes to oust incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas. “Just go vote for Beto,” Popovich said on Saturday, …