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.

Trump donor: Corey Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances  —  A Donald Trump donor is accusing Corey Lewandowski, one of the former president's longtime top aides, of making unwanted sexual advances toward her at a Las Vegas charity event over the weekend.

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 …

Trump Still Faces a Reckoning in New York  —  Court documents and interviews indicate that the Manhattan District Attorney is accumulating evidence of pervasive tax fraud.  —  Last Monday, eighty days after their first courtroom appearance in a case known as The People of the State of New York v …

Gaetz slams Milley for spending more time talking to reporters than planning Afghan withdrawal  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz didn't exactly throw the book at Gen. Mark Milley during Wednesday's Capitol hearing on Afghanistan, but he waved it at him as he excoriated the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman for his fondness of speaking to reporters.

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.

VP Harris to student who accused Israel of ‘genocide’: Your truth must be heard  —  US Vice President Kamala Harris applauded a student who accused Israel of “ethnic genocide,” saying “your truth cannot be suppressed.”  —  During a discussion with students about National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday …

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...

Senate parliamentarian rules out Democrats' immigration plan B  —  The Senate parliamentarian has nixed Democrats' back-up plan for getting immigration reform into a sweeping spending bill, handing them a second setback.  —  Democrats had pitched parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough …

“I Felt Like There Was No Mercy”: Cori Bush Is Ready to Talk About Her Abortion  —  Bush, who will tell her story at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, recognizes that as reproductive rights come under legislative attack, accounts like hers are crucial.  —  Seated on the edge of a grey couch …

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.

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.

Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 - Updates on Spectators, Vaccination and COVID-19 Countermeasures  —  IOC News Press Release Beijing 2022  —  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) held an Executive Board (EB) meeting today, in the presence of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

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.

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.

Exxon Mobil has been lobbying against parts of Democrats' big social and climate spending bill  — Exxon Mobil has been lobbying against pieces of a sprawling Democratic budget bill aimed at boosting working class families and fighting climate change.  — The fossil fuel giant …

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 …

Arson suspect sought after throwing ‘molotov cocktail’ into Travis County Democrats' Austin office  —  Austin arson officials are investigating after a man wearing a U.S. flag bandana threw an incendiary device and possibly a rock into the Travis County Democratic Party's East Sixth Street office early Wednesday.

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.

The Cops Who Touched Fentanyl  —  Can you overdose on fentanyl just from being near it?  Over the past few years, a number of police officers have said that they O.D.'d merely from brief exposure to the drug.  In 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration even issued a warning to cops about the dangers of such encounters.

Malarkey, in Trillions  —  Joe Biden insists that his overstuffed, $3.5 trillion slop-pail of a spending package “costs zero dollars.”  President Biden is, forgive us for noticing, completely crackers.  —  There are a few ways of looking at the cost of a $3.5 trillion boondoggle.