MANILA, Philippines – While people swooned over Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his visit, many still called him out for his government’s inaction on his country's garbage illegally shipped to the Philippines starting 2013. Trudeau was in the country earlier this...
A chastened president gave a great speech last night. But will it be enough?  Donald Trump had promised a State of the Union address that could bring the country together. Did he deliver one? It’s hard to say. His address...
With a veneer of impartiality, fact-checkers engage in a uniquely dishonest style of partisanship. If media wants to challenge the context and politics of Republican arguments, that’s their prerogative. There are plenty of legitimately misleading statement’s worthy of fact-checkers’ attention....
Democrats will protect American children from the evils of trans fats and gay conversion therapy, but not from doctors who will kill them through negligent homicide in the first few hours of their lives. This is the ugly reality...
The court ruling refutes Planned Parenthood’s own talking points about how the CMP videos were “highly edited."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2xi9mhmuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkBIWjoV-Oo The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state of Texas can strip taxpayer subsidies from Planned Parenthood, primarily based on evidence...
She doesn't deserve to be lauded as millennials' feminist icon. Her incompetence with numbers and jumbled facts validate every negative stereotype women have been trying to erase for years.  Vox dubbed her “the most buzzed-about first-term member of the House of Representatives,”...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has cancelled the president’s state of the union address until the government is re-opened. After rejecting invitations earlier in the week from the White House to negotiate on funding for border security, Pelosi...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cuts rates for most tax brackets, substantially reduces business taxes, increases the standard deduction, and eliminates many tax loopholes and deductions. Congress passed historic, far-reaching tax reform legislation this week, and President Donald Trump...
At FiveThirtyEight, Christine Aschwanden writes: “The GOP’s Abortion Ban Is About Politics, Not Science.” She’s half-right, though not in the way she thinks. Before we get to that, it is worth reflecting on this simple fact: the progressive contribution to the...
The executive order did not change regulations on its own. Instead, it instructed cabinet departments to propose changes to rules. On Thursday morning, President Trump signed an Executive Order regarding health care and health insurance. Here’s what you need to know...
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