After defeating restrictive voting bill, Texas Democrats send loud message: ‘We need Congress to do their part’  —  Texas Democrats who defeated a Republican effort to pass a suite of new voting restrictions with a dramatic, late-night walkout from the state House chamber on Sunday have a message …

Coups and Rumors of Coups  —  The threat is no joke.  —  Let's stipulate that any talk about coups is crazy.  Our traditions and institutions — both in and out of the military — are simply too strong, and the very idea of a coup is so profoundly un-American that it is unthinkable.

Critical race theory is under attack  —  One hundred years ago today, mobs of armed white supremacists violently attacked and killed Black residents and destroyed Black businesses in Tulsa, Okla., in the Greenwood District.  —  The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating …

The GOP Has Discovered Joe Biden's Political Superpower  —  Something strange has been happening to my in-box.  It's still a wasteland, a ghastly stream of spam and requests from an endless array of politicians and political organizations.  But the GOP fundraising emails — usually the loudest …

Republicans fear Trump will lead to a ‘lost generation’ of talent  —  As Donald Trump ponders another presidential bid, top Republicans have grown fearful about what they're calling the party's “lost generation.”  —  In conversations with more than 20 lawmakers, ex-lawmakers, top advisers and aides …

Anthony Fauci's pandemic emails: ‘All is well despite some crazy people in this world’  —  Fauci's correspondence from March and April 2020, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, offers a peek into his world during the frantic early days of the coronavirus crisis

Ahead of Tulsa trip, Biden to unveil plans to reduce Black-White wealth gap  —  President Biden plans to unveil a set of policies intended to narrow the wealth gap between Black and White Americans in a speech he's set to deliver Tuesday in Tulsa, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the massacre …

Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity  —  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority, and to say that laypeople who hold church office can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.

Supreme Court will soon release a potentially pivotal decision for LGBT rights  — The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision in the coming days that could provide the first glimpses of how its 6-3 conservative majority will shape the future of LGBT rights.

Low-paid Capitol Hill staffers are moonlighting for Starbucks and Door Dash.  They're fed up with unlivable salaries that hinder diversity and kneecap careers.  — Hill staffers have put up with low wages for years.  Some start in the high $20,000s.  — Powerful Congress members …

Kamalanomics: Vice President Harris Outlines Her Vision Of Inclusive Entrepreneurship  —  The pandemic has prompted a surge in entrepreneurship, voluntary and involuntary.  The United States' first female, Black and Asian-American vice president shares her ideas in an exclusive essay for Forbes …

Belarus enacts new rules restricting citizens from leaving  —  Minsk's border agency has announced new rules that will make it nearly impossible to leave the country.  As citizens attempt to flee Belarus, longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko appears to be closing all the exits.

Trump's back.  Here's what his re-entry means for 2024. … WASHINGTON — Defeated presidents usually go away — at least for a long while.  Not Donald Trump.  —  Trump returns to the electoral battlefield Saturday as the marquee speaker at the North Carolina Republican Party's state convention.

Put Trump on the ballot in '22?  No thanks, some Dems say  —  As Donald Trump cannonballs back into national headlines more scandal-ridden than ever, it turns out that Republicans aren't the only ones who don't want to fixate on the former president.  Many House Democrats feel the same way.

An Evangelical Battle of the Generations: To Embrace Trump or Not?  —  For years, there was an adage around Liberty University that if God split Jerry Falwell in half, you would have his sons Jerry and Jonathan.  —  Jerry Jr. inherited his father's desire to be a force in American politics …

Maureen Dowd Talks ‘Mare of Easttown’ With Kate Winslet  —  The star of ‘Mare of Easttown’ is back on the sides of buses.  Without airbrushing.  —  Philly's a tough town.  —  If there's a quintessential story about the City of Brotherly Love, it's this one: In 2015 …

What Chuck Schumer can learn from Harry Reid  —  “I think the biggest lesson is never trust Republicans,” says one of Reid's former staffers.  —  By the time he decided to “go nuclear” on filibusters for most presidential appointees, Harry Reid had had it with Republicans.

The public school system had stopped teaching children long before the pandemic  —  If the academic year now ending has taught us anything, it's that the public school system would rather indoctrinate than educate its students.  —  The school system was created to teach students academically and morally …

Time Magazine Takes Chinese Cash To Promote Controversial Drone Business  —  Iconic mag fails to properly disclose $700k from China  —  As part of a $700,000 advertising campaign, Time magazine published articles from a Chinese state-run media agency touting a controversial Chinese drone maker accused …

Vice President Harris' team tries to distance her from fraught situation at the border  —  Two White House officials familiar with the dynamic said Harris and her aides have emphasized internally that they want to focus on conditions in Central America that push migrants to the US southern border …

Fox News host Sean Hannity wrote Trump 2020 campaign ad, book claims  —  Hannity worked on ‘swamp creature’ ad that ran during Hannity's show, according to Mike Bender's Frankly, We Did Win This Election  —  The Fox News host Sean Hannity was criticised for appearing at a Trump rally in 2018 …