New York businessman Andrew Saul testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during his hearing as Commissioner for Social Security Administration in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 02, 2018 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images President Joe Biden fired the social security chief on Friday after the official appointed by…

Army Committee of the House of Representatives Chairman Rep. Adam Smith accused Kevin McCarthy of helping the Trump cult in the fascist takeover of the United States. Video: House Armed Services Committee chairman Adam Smith said Kevin McCarthy was trying to aid the Trump cult in a fascist takeover of government. pic.twitter.com/LeyTzq5QUq – Sarah Reese…

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, July 9, 2021. Alex Edelman | Bloomberg | Getty Images WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call Friday morning to take action to…

An example of the Republican Party’s collective mental instability is MP Madison Cawthorn, who claims she is secretly confiscating Bibles and weapons door-to-door. Video: Madison Cawthorn says today that Biden’s plan to send people door-to-door to offer vaccines is actually a conspiracy to confiscate people’s Bibles and weapons. pic.twitter.com/h6CPdJwv9t – Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 9,…

Dental students and others crowd during a vigil at the University of North Carolina following the murder of three Muslim students on February 11, 2015 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Justice declined to prosecute 82% of hate crime suspects investigated between 2005 and 2019,…

A new study showed that the number of white evangelicals in the United States has fallen from 23% to 14.5% since 2006, and that’s bad news for the GOP. Aaron Blake of The Washington Post reported on a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute: While that group made up 23 percent of the…

Search and rescue teams continue to work in the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South apartment in Surfside, Florida on July 6, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | AFP | Getty Images Finding the site of a collapsed Florida condo building is shifting from a rescue to a salvage operation as the likelihood of finding…

When he first took office, Joe Biden promised to make a good faith effort to work with Republicans. And that effort has been made on numerous occasions over Biden’s first few months in office. Mitch McConnell, though, has often urged his senators against working with the president or supporting his legislation. This is the same…

White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo listens as press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington. Patrick Semansky | AP TJ Ducklo, President Joe Biden’s former deputy White House press secretary, is starting to work for an influential public relations and crisis communications…

Horrible events often have the effect of uniting the country. The 9/11 attacks were a good example of this. Despite the strong partisanship in 2001, George W. Bush soon had an approval rating of 90%. 1/6 was another terrifying event in American history. But the country has certainly not come together since then. And because…