President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released a draft report on American religious history that, according to experts, gets a lot of basic facts wrong about its purported subject.“A new draft report from a Trump administration task force presents a competing vision of America’s trad…
It was 250 years ago, on July 4, 1776, that the American Declaration of Independence was signed at the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. The United States’ America 250 celebrations come during a time of great political turbulence in the United States, and in The Guard…
Hundreds of members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front descended on Washington DC Saturday morning as the nation’s capital prepared to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.Members of the group, wearing masks and carrying Confederate and US flags, rode the…
On Tuesday night, the establishment wing of the Democratic Party got a message it would prefer to pretend it didn’t hear. In New York, Mamdani-backed progressives swept the congressional primaries, ousting two sitting Democratic congressmen and taking an open seat in a single evening. Former city co…
After the U.S. bombed Venezuela in the middle of the night and abducted President Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump was quick to threaten legitimately-elected governments in the region. In particular, Trump implied a hazy future conflict with Mexico in an interview with Fox News Saturday mornin…
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, the “ideals that this country began with” are under assault by President Donald Trump, prompting commentator and economic equality activist Robert Reich to plan a symbol “mourning” to mark this year’s Fourth of July.Reich is a veteran lawyer who previously …
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s staff claims that his health is improving after a recent emergency hospital trip, but as one medical expert argued, his situation means that he is overall “unfit to serve” the rest of his term in office.McConnell is a long-tenured Senator from Kentucky…
The most beautiful human experiment in the world is turning 250. Democracy lasting this long is cause for celebration, but an alarming drop in intelligence suggests its future birthdays are numbered.For nearly a century, average IQ scores in the U.S. rose consistently, but recent evidence flips this…
We are but 122 days from the most important elections of our lifetime, and on the day before our nation’s 250th birthday, those elections are under attack by the anti-American Republican Party and their wannabe king who already violently attacked us once.As a type this on a steaming hot day across m…
First Lady Melania Trump is pursuing new sanctions in her battle against Michael Wolff, but as the prominent former biographer of her husband explained this week, her “preposterous” legal strategy is doomed to fail.Wolff is a veteran reporter and author, best known for several books documenting Pres…