Politics

Minnesota Senator Al Frankenhas been accused of groping radio/TV host and model Leeann Tweeden without her consent during a USO Tour in December 2006. At the time, Franken had yet to run for public office and was on the tour as a comedian. Tweeden detailed her experience with Franken in …

Update: Late Friday, the federal appeals court in D.C. denied Jane Doe’s plea to require the federal government to release her to get an abortion. In a 2-1 decision, the court gave the government until October 31st to find someone to be legally responsible for Jane Doe – a “sponsor” …

J erry Brown‘s California now stands like a parallel universe to Donald Trump‘s America: a land of tolerance, high immigration, tight gun control and world-beating innovation – combining a soaring economy with plummeting greenhouse-gas emissions. In recent months, Brown has signed a new gas tax to fund more than $50 …

As delicious as it was to watch the mainstream Republican Party crushed under the weight of its own internal contradictions during the 2016 campaign season, a new horror show could be even better. In a special Alabama Senate race going on now, we can watch Donald Trump chewed to bits …

Trumpcare is not dead. A new bill to repeal and replace Obamacare may be the Republicans‘ worst take yet. The legislation is careening toward a vote in the Senate – without so much as a scorecard from the Congressional Budget Office detailing how many millions, or tens of millions, would …

President Donald Trump and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt may not want to talk about climate change right now, but judging from these storms, Mother Nature sure does. I began covering energy and climate change in 1990, shortly after George H. W. Bush was elected president and announced the fossil fuels …

It’s no longer political suicide, or so it seems, to embrace legalizing marijuana. At least among the younger generation of prominent Democrats, though there seems to be cracks in the dam amongst Republicans too. The latest evolution on the issue was on display this week as New Jersey Democratic Sen. …