Politics may be at play in the appearance of a draft presidential order that could revive the CIA’s “black site” prisons, one former CIA director says.
The Trump administration is requiring that political appointees review all Environmental Protection Agency studies and data prior to public release, according to a report from the Associated Press.
The last thing the United States needs right now is another celebrity personality sticking a nose into politics, another person who has never lived the struggles of average Americans developing the policies to fix average lives.
Asked by Canada’s The Metal Voice if he ever injects any of his political views into the subject matters that he writes about in his lyrics, Ellsworth said (hear audio below): “I love politics. I mean, it’s something I’ve followed since before college …
Nicholas Griffin: Political interference and technology will be two of the most important disruptors. President Donald Trump has taken action on trade agreements in his first week in office.
Conservative Antonio Tajani emerged as the president of the European Parliament last week after a polarizing political fight, one waged between a center-right bloc and a progressive coalition of social democrats.
At least with the election of Trump we don’t have numerous think pieces (and sweet sweet consulting cash) about how Democrats just need to pretend to love Jesus more.
Yet, the current debate shows how effectively politicians have used visual technology to redefine what counts as “life.” Since the mid-1990s, opponents of abortion have deployed ultrasound in their attempts to restrict abortion access.
Two contrasting images emerged from the march itself: first, people filling the streets out of pure, unadulterated but vaguely motivated frustration; second, some of the most egregiously perverse speeches and signage in modern political history. While …
Subscribe to The Atlantic’s Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. During his sole press conference as president-elect, on January 11, Donald Trump seemed to promise more favorable treatment for states that had …
The beauty of the MacArthur quote, as Edwards undoubtedly knows, is that it resonates and doesn’t immediately align Edwards with either major political party. You can read that Edwards is a Republican from that comment just as easily as you can that he …
Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the federal appeals court in Atlanta in November. He is a former Alabama attorney general, a graduate of Tulane’s law school and an outspoken opponent of abortion and gay rights.
It’s easy to get down about the current state of politics. But for all the negative attention focused on the White House at the moment, there are lots and lots of politicians – in both parties! – doing politics the right way: working together to …
This is shaping up to be an era of bold strokes in American politics, and the past 24 hours have seen several high-stakes moves – from the statehouse to the White House.
There has been a lot of arguing about the size of crowds in the past few days. Estimates for President Trump’s inauguration and the Women’s March a day later vary widely.
The Founding Fathers did not need the example of the French Revolution birthed in blood and gore the same year the U.S. Constitution came into force in order to understand the dangers of people going to the streets to fight for their political ideas.
This past Sunday on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd spent 13 minutes trying to get Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway to explain “why President Trump [sent] out his press secretary to essentially litigate a provable falsehood” about Trump’s inauguration.
Lexington based Democratic political consultant Samuel McIntosh was charged and admitted to paying kickbacks to former Secretary of the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet, Timothy Longmeyer in federal court on Wednesday.
Of all golden-age fallacies, none is dafter than that there was a time when politicians purveyed unvarnished truth. As Private Eye’s Ian Hislop said in his recent Orwell lecture, suppressing truth and suggesting falsehood have been leitmotifs of …
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