Politics

President Joe Biden signed an executive orderaimed at relieving food insecurity, a desperately needed measure as nearly one in five households with children recently reported not having enough food for the week. Biden signed the executive order on Friday along with another that will increase the minimum wage for federal …

As the days go on, we learn more and more disturbing details about the day the Capitol was attacked. Over the weekend, the Associated Press revealed that Trump campaign aides and independent contractors were listed on the permit for the “Save America Rally” that turned into a deadly riot. And …

Republicans are learning the hard way that supporting a president who inspires a violent attempt to overthrow the government has consequences. There are the obvious ones, like the fracturing of the foundation of representative democracy, the adrenaline shot to future right-wing extremist terror, and the growing specter of a new …

In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Edward Ongweso Jr., a prolific journalist currently at Vice’s Motherboard. Matt submits a story he recently published on the flailing efforts of Democrats to negotiate a Covid-19 relief package, citing a Congressional staffer …

In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiots podcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Ryan McMahon and Jon Thompson of the Thunder Baypodcast. For “Democrats Suck,” Katie dives into former President Barack Obama’s new best-selling memoir A Promised Land, particularly the section in which Obama laments …

As the outgoing president’s legal cases to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 election win continue to fail, the argument that Trump was actually victorious is becoming more and more farcical with each passing day. And Saturday’s heated Fox interview with Trump’s Director of Press Communications Erin Perrine proved as much. In …

Ady Barkan spoke with just about all of them: Elizabeth. Cory. Bernie. Kamala. Julián. Pete. The only Democratic presidential candidate Barkan hadn’t spoken with? Joe. But after Biden edged out the rest of his party’s competition, that changed. Eventually, everyone wants to talk with Barkan. “When he won the nomination, …

I n the spring of 2019, Khalifa Haftar went to a cafe in Cairo to plot a coup. At the meeting, the Libyan general was shown an $80 million plan to overthrow Libya’s U.N.-recognized government. In a PowerPoint presentation viewed by Rolling Stone, Haftar, a warlord with a power base …

A little more than a year before he finished his second term in the White House, President Barack Obama nominated Myra Selby for a lifetime appointment on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The former Indiana Supreme Court associate justice, who is black, never got a …

Update 10/4/2020: Joe Biden, 77, has tested negative for the coronavirus for the third time since Tuesday’s debate. The Democratic nominee’s campaign has committed to releasing the results of all future Covid-19 tests. Biden is not yet in the clear, however, because most people incubate the virus for two to …