Louisiana Senator John Kennedy appeared on __Fox News__ this week to mock Barack Obama’s interview with Stephen Colbert, suggesting the two should “get a motel room” because of their supposed mutual admiration.
Kennedy’s motel room quip came after Obama appeared on Colbert’s _Late Show_ , where the two discussed and joked about presidential powers, executive authority, and job searches,…
At age 29, New Yorkers elected her to be the youngest member of Congress in 2018. Now, as she ramps up her reelection campaign at the wise old age of 36, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t shying away from controversial, “gotcha” questions from the likes of _TMZ._
Such as, “If you could click your fingers, and Tucker Carlson is president, instead of Donald Trump, would you do it?" And:…
The room was electric. It was April 2009, and dozens of people were packed into the basement of the Student Services Building at UT Austin — observers, partisans, true believers. When a 20-year-old Student Government Assembly member named Jimmy Talarico leaned into the microphone and said, “And if Littlefield Fountain needs to go dry for a few weeks every year so that tuition isn’t raised, I…
President Donald Trump announced Monday that he plans to attend this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an event he boycotted throughout his entire first term and in the first year of his second term, while regularly dismissing the press as “fake news” and the “enemy of the people.” It would mark his first appearance at the dinner as a sitting president.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who died Tuesday morning at age 84, was a longtime supporter of LGBTQ+ equality, arguing for an inclusive and intersectional movement championing the rights of all marginalized people.
Jackson fought against racial segregation as a young man, both independently and as a staffer for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership…