As the sun sets on a remote peak along the West Virginia-Virginia border, a tense standoff unfolds between an armed squadron of U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers and a band of campers. Generators are flicked on and prison-style floodlights blast the campers, as well as the protester they are …
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President Trump concluded his announcement that the United States will withdraw from the Iran deal with a message of peace: “Great things can happen for the peace and stability that we all want in the Middle East,” he said. “There has been enough suffering, death, and destruction. Let it end …
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Forget Vegas – when it comes to federal marijuana policy, the real gamblers just went all-in at the Capitol. These suit-donning winners won’t walk away with the keys to someone’s moped, car or house. This winner-take-all match could change the trajectory of U.S. marijuana policy in the coming decades and …
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The day after an ex-student walked on to their campus with an AR-15 and murdered 17 people, a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas high schoolers got together to plan a march against gun violence. Less than six weeks later, the idea has swelled in size and scope: as many 500,000 …
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Jefferson Beauregard Sessions was named after two Confederates, so it was peculiar to hear him talk as if secession was a bad thing. On Tuesday morning, the Attorney General continued his war with California‘s leadership, this time admonishing it for refusing to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collect undocumented …
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In the wake of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s troll farm indictment, a bizarre series of events took place involving the New York Times and Facebook. The indictment had barely hit the presses before Facebook Ads exec Rob Goldman decided to tweet a few things. Goldman seemed peeved that his company, …
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Over two decades ago, I traveled to a city in the Russian provinces called Rostov-On-Don to interview a psychiatrist named Alexander Bukhanovsky. Bukhanovsky, now deceased, was famous. If you’ve seen the movie Citizen X, about the capture of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Bukhanovsky was the guy played by Max Von …
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Someday, when Hollywood starts making movies and episodic dramas about this bizarre epoch in American history – that time when Russia installed a fat, orange-tinted fourth-grader in the White House, and “conservatives” cheered and plotted to keep him there – there will be a whole dog-kennel’s worth of knaves to …
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At the Golden Globes Sunday night, Oprah Winfrey delivered an electrifying speech on behalf of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment that touched on the empowerment of women at all levels of society. For many, it was a moment of desperately needed catharsis in response to a lifetime of predation …
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On the eve of his electionversary, voters seized the first electoral opportunity they’ve had to send a message to Donald Trump and the mostly white, mostly male Republican legislators empowered by his elevation to the presidency. In races all across the country, they voted to defeat candidates and replace incumbents …
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