US president Donald Trump addressed Americans on Wednesday, briefly discussing his decision to kill Iranian major general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq. “Last week we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from threatening American lives,” the president said.
In the decade since its enactment in 2010, the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has been the subject of numerous legal battles between Republicans who oppose it and Democrats who support it. The war over the national health insurance program continues in 2020, and now the Supreme Court must now decide whether to join the fray—again.
While the American left debates just how socialist to go, Republicans and the political right are in an existential fight, a veritable crisis.
Travis Kalanick, the founder and ousted CEO of ride-share giant Uber, is stepping down from the company board, according to a Dec. 24 company announcement. The move follows two months of stock selling by Kalanick where he cashed in all of his shares for about $2.7 billion.
It’s a quintessentially French holiday season as three weeks of labor strikes over proposed pension reforms have halted trains, subways, the national economy, and even, briefly, the god of consumption, Amazon.
It’s no secret that a presidential impeachment trial in the US Senate, whatever evidence is or is not presented, will end with Donald Trump’s acquittal. Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell has promised it.
Meat eaters rejoice! A new scientific study suggests that the eating of flesh alone cannot explain differences in the carbon footprints (CF) of various households.
It was a big week for the rule of law in America. Donald Trump was impeached in the House for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
During the debates on impeachment at the House of Representatives yesterday, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia reignited an enduring fight when he used the word “irregardless.”
Throughout yesterday’s impeachment proceedings, which lasted about 11 hours, Democrats and Republicans took starkly conflicting positions on all but one matter. Almost everyone agreed on how to characterize the occasion. It was, they said, “a sad day.”
The full House of Representatives voted today on articles of impeachment against US president Donald Trump. The vote—230 to 197—went along party lines, with most Democrats finding both an abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. One Independent joined the Democrats, Justin Amash of Michigan. Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard voted that she was present but did not vote yes. Republicans objected overwhelmingly.
As you have no doubt surmised by now, Taylor Swift is a staunch capitalist and a very successful one at that. Nonetheless, the pop star seems steeped in Marxism when she fights for the rights of songwriters to own their output, as she did on Dec. 12 when accepting the award for Billboard’s “Woman of the Decade.”
The world’s oldest pictorial story, dating back 44,000 years, was revealed in a study this week about a limestone cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
A security team at Vilnius airport in Lithuania has managed to find its muse in what might seem—superficially—like an entirely uninspiring job, especially around the holiday season.
On Dec. 13, the US Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated order, granting review in three cases involving requests for president Donald Trump’s financial records via third parties. The president has claimed executive privilege shields the information, though lower courts have found otherwise.
Ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is power. Or at least that is what US founding father and philosopher James Madison thought.
Yesterday (Dec. 11), the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a tragic case about one small child, her battling parents, and international law.
The US Supreme Court heard supremely ironic arguments today from American health insurers, who say the federal government owes them $12 billion for losses incurred due to their participation in “Obamacare.”
The US government prosecutes criminal defendants. It doesn’t generally defend them. But today is a rare day at the US Supreme Court when the US will stand with a man it has accused.
Quartz senior reporter for law and politics Ephrat Livni and geopolitics editor Peter Gelling talk about the ongoing Trump impeachment inquiry.
The national crash course in US history and law, prompted by the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s Ukraine dealings, continued today. The House Judiciary Committee just released a new report on the constitutional grounds for impeachment, following a marathon eight-hour hearing with legal scholars discussing this very topic earlier in the week.
In Greek mythology, a chimera is a fire-breathing monster made of multiple creatures: a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. In real life, chimeras are rare and not quite as dramatic. But they do exist.
On Dec. 6, late in the day, US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg granted president Donald Trump’s request for an emergency stay suspending a lower court decision finding his financial records are subject to subpoena.
Next week, on Dec. 11, the US Supreme Court is faced with a case that may be every parent’s nightmare.
