IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. A week after Jan. 6, Rep. Troy Nehls said he thought Capitol officers would have been justified in shooting more rioters if they had made it through that door he was helping to hold. Now, he’s going on right-wing media…Continue Reading
A new ad from Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Glenn Youngkin, features a white woman who tried to ban Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Beloved,” from her son’s school curriculum because it allegedly gave him nightmares.With Election Day quickly approaching, the ad is just the latest indicator Youngkin is leaning on white anger over school lesson…Continue Reading
In one of the most widely watched political races of the year, Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin has made right-wing parental anxiety a major focal point of his campaign. He has eagerly whipped up fears of local school boards imposing a liberal cultural agenda on innocent minds by sounding the alarms over the specter…Continue Reading
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In 2020, China’s President Xi Jinping pledged that China would both peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2060 — a change that will require action at an unheard-of scale and speed. Can the country actually achieve this ambitious vision? In this forward-looking talk…Continue Reading
President Joe Biden campaigns for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe at a rally in Arlington, Va., October 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Biden portrayed Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin as an “acolyte” of former President Trump at a rally in Arlington, Va. on Tuesday, a week before the general election. Biden spoke at a campaign…Continue Reading
People walk past a Taliban fighter at a market in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 24, 2021. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters) A Pentagon official confirmed during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that at least 439 Americans remain in Afghanistan, in what Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) labeled a “slow-motion hostage crisis.” U.S. undersecretary of defense Colin Kahl gave the number…Continue Reading
(AlenaMozhjer/Getty Images) The latest Biden proposal: an income tax on income that doesn’t actually exist. The year 2021 has seen President Biden and congressional Democrats explore, very publicly and painfully, seemingly every possible way to squeeze more tax money out of the American people. This exploration has taken place though the federal government just enjoyed…Continue Reading
(Photo illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) A Food and Drug Administration panel voted on Tuesday to recommend use of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children ages 5-11. The advisory panel, known as the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, gave its approval to administer the Pfizer vaccine to children in two doses spaced three weeks apart.…Continue Reading
Candidate for Governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe speaks during his campaign rally in Dumfries, Va., October 21, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Local Virginia TV stations including ABC, CBS and NBC have refused to air an ad depicting sexually explicit materials that are widely available to students in school libraries in the state, citing federal law which…Continue Reading