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The Latest Casualty of President Trump’s Budget Cuts? Honeybees

Only a complete moron would not see the importance of the honeybee in our ecosystem.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Revisits Climate Change Gripes With Nancy Pelosi

"All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world," said Pelosi last week.

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It Sure Looks Like Jeffrey Epstein Was a Spy—But Whose?

It appears that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in intelligence work, of some kind, for someone—and it probably wasn’t American intelligence either.

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Barney Frank on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Impeachment Calls: ‘It Takes No...

"It takes no courage whatsoever to be with these very strong left positions," Frank told Observer.

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Political Elite Ask Trump to Address ‘Human Rights Abuse’ in Kuwait

"My family has a long and close relationship with the people of Kuwait, and this type of human rights abuse is not in keeping with the Kuwait my father helped to liberate," said Neil Bush.

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NJ Politics Digest: Residents Claim Gas Tax Hike Hasn’t Led to Improved Roads

New Jersey residents now pay some of the highest gasoline taxes in the nation, and residents here say they are not getting their money's worth.

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Democrats May Make More Than Legal Weed Go Up in Smoke

When our political leaders can’t put aside their differences, the voters always lose.

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Following Julián Castro, Elizabeth Warren Calls for Decriminalizing Border...

Warren also reiterated her past proposal to eliminate private prisons.

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NJ Politics Digest: Looking to Retire? New Jersey’s Not Your Best Bet, Report...

A new national ranking ranked New Jersey as the ninth-worst state in the nation for retirees.

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Don’t Penalize Private Prisons for Scourge of Mass Incarceration

We should be tackling mass incarceration head-on, instead of using private prisons as a scapegoat.

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Are Hurricanes Blowing Climate Change Skepticism Away?

Will the Crescent City be "Barried" in water?

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Real Estate Developers’ Plea to Trump: Don’t Roll Out New EB-5 Regulation

The Obama administration left behind a regulatory reform to something called the EB-5 investor visa program that will end up sabotaging foreign investment in U.S. big city infrastructure projects.

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What Lessons Can JFK’s Pledge to Reach the Moon Provide for Trump?

First of all, if Trump wants to get the country energized about returning to space, by wide margins, he’s got to find a strong rationale.

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How Sanctions Are Affecting Iran’s Art Market and Cultural Workers

Iran's art scene is currently persevering, despite mounting tensions with the U.S. that have hampered the ability of gallerists to do business, and artists to travel.

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Half-Life of Memory: Unforgetting the ‘American Chernobyl’

"It’s a physical and mental cover-up, in that the most contaminated buildings in America are still buried out there."

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Why Iowa’s ‘High-Tech’ Caucus Failed (and Why Other States Are Ditching...

The answer’s not terribly complicated.

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Donald Trump Declares War on Twitter, Facebook with Executive Order

Trump's order could make social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter more liable for what users post and subject them to more lawsuits.

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White House Fires Back After Twitter Goes Next-Level in Trump Tweet War

Trump finished his tweet by writing "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," a quote from an infamous Miami police chief who blatantly embraced the violent policing of the black community.

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Masha Gessen Maps a Path Beyond Trump in ‘Surviving Autocracy’

'I think that it's important to keep in mind that this state of fog is not a side effect of our current predicament. It's a feature of it,' Gessen warns.

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After Georgia’s Election Fiasco, Why Can’t People Vote Online? Experts Weigh In.

Right now, there is simply no proven way to both keep an online ballot secret and guarantee its authenticity.

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