Kill the Bill  —  Members of Congress have begun to say explicitly in the last couple days what I think has been clear for weeks and months.  Kyrsten Sinema's multiple trips to the White House yesterday just confirms it.  She's not negotiating about any of this in good faith.

Kristi Noem Shows Why Republicans Can't Have Nice Things  —  Exclusive: Sources reveal the South Dakota governor and potential 2024 VP candidate is having an extramarital affair with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.  —  Multiple sources have informed American Greatness …

YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content  —  The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.  Facebook made the same change months ago.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is taking …

The Most Dangerous Man in America  —  Gen. Mark Milley is ambitious, incompetent, progressive, and wildly self-assured.  —  Four-star General Mark A. Milley, 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces, is a walking answer to the unasked question …

Dowd for Texas Announcement  —  Matthew Dowd announces his campaign for Texas Lt Governor and end the reign of the cruel and craven GOP incumbent.  He says enough is enough and it is time t...

In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason's Role in Human Progress … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.  —  For someone who so frequently and serenely proclaims that he's right, Steven Pinker can get curiously defensive.

Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?  —  The show's new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

Why Biden Is Patient as Democrats Panic  —  A faint but discernible note of alarm has been slipping into Democrats' chatter about the 2022 and 2024 elections.  President Joe Biden's approval ratings have slumped to their lowest levels since his inauguration.  His governing coalition is splintering over the Haitian migrant crisis.

Trump plans to sue to keep White House records on Capitol attack secret  —  Legal strategy could delay and possibly stymie efforts by House select committee into Capitol attacks to see key documents  —  Donald Trump is preparing to sue to block the release of White House records …

Faced with vaccine mandates, most health workers are getting immunized.  —  Hundreds of sought-after nurses are leaving some U.S. hospitals that have established vaccine requirements for all employees, involving some protests and legal opposition.  But most workers, especially at large hospital chains …

Kamala Harris' office frustrated with ‘The View’ after last week's Covid fiasco, sources say  —  New York (CNN Business)The office of Vice President Kamala Harris is vexed with “The View” after the false Covid-19 positive tests revealed just before Harris was to appear on the show last week sent …

The Age of America First … Donald Trump was supposed to be an aberration—a U.S. president whose foreign policy marked a sharp but temporary break from an internationalism that had defined seven decades of U.S. interactions with the world.  He saw little value in alliances and spurned multilateral institutions.

Wisconsin GOP lawmakers want superintendent, treasurer and secretary of state appointed, not elected  —  MADISON - Republican lawmakers are proposing to eliminate elections for the state superintendent, state treasurer and secretary of state and instead allow governors to appoint those positions.

Ivory-billed woodpecker officially declared extinct, along with 22 other species  —  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's move underscores what scientists say is an accelerating rate of extinction worldwide, given climate change and habitat loss  —  The “Lord God Bird” is dead.

A racist conspiracy theory goes mainstream  —  A growing number of elected Republicans are openly promoting “white replacement theory,” a decades-old conspiracy theory that's animated terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.  —  Why it matters: This mainstreams what once …

Conservative Koch network disavows critical race theory bans  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As conservative political groups mobilize to ban in schools what they call critical race theory, one prominent backer of Republican causes and candidates is notably absent.

America Is Having a Violence Wave, Not a Crime Wave  —  A historic rise in homicides in 2020—and continued bloodshed in 2021—has incited fears that after years of plummeting crime rates, the U.S. could be headed back to the bad old days, when a crime wave gripped the country from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Twenty percent of border crossers tested positive amid delta variant surge, ‘surprised’ Mayorkas says  —  The top border official in the Biden administration admitted to being caught off guard recently by the spike in delta variant coronavirus cases among migrants at the border.

Arizona Audit Backers Turn on Each Other After Recount Flop  —  The Arizona audit showed that, if anything, Joe Biden won the state by even more votes than previously realized.  Cue the GOP panic.  —  Supporters of Republicans' controversial “audit” of 2020 presidential election ballots …

Sen. Marshall, Doctors Caucus send letter to CDC urging recognition of COVID-19 natural immunity  —  Physicians called on CDC to ‘truly determine’ a person's immunity to the novel coronavirus  —  Concha on CDC Director Walensky being the ‘wrong COVID-19 messenger’