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Trump Tweets Link to Conspiracy Theory Website

President Trump tweeted Saturday night a link to a sycophantic website that traffics in conspiracy theories and has aligned itself to the alt-right and white nationalist movements...  Read more

Supreme Court to hear major cellphone privacy case amid end-of-year blockbusters

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Carpenter v. United States, a case about the constitutionality of law enforcement searching and seizing -- without a warrant -- a cellphone user's records to reveal that person's locations and movements...  Read more

Why Ajit Pai's decision killing Obama's net neutrality FCC regulation is good

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced last week that the FCC would roll back "net neutrality," which led to many complaints from Democrats...  Read more

The opioid crisis, on the front lines

If we want to effectively end this public health emergency, we must invest in first responders...  Read more

Al Franken allegations are a big money problem for Democrats

Perhaps a bigger loss than his direct contributions to Democrats' Senate campaign arm is the sidelining of Franken, 66, as a go-to fundraiser for his colleagues...  Read more

Is Virginia Permanently Blue Now?

There are lessons for both Republicans and Democrats in Ralph Northam's victory...  Read more

Public university tells graduate students to oppose Republican tax reform

Graduate students at the taxpayer-subsidized University of North Dakota received an email from the Office of Graduate Studies encouraging students to lobby against the Republican proposed tax reform bill that is currently under debate...  Read more

DC courts are becoming the place to muzzle scientists

A Stanford professor who is unhappy about a study contradicting his work has filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., demanding $10 million and the retraction of the opposing research...  Read more

Secret legislative settlements driven by sexual harassment, discrimination

In most cases, Congress is able to appropriate any money it needs for these settlements...  Read more

Trump Is Right: Five Ways Chinese Car Makers Are Hosing America

China's car manufacturers really are taking advantage of an unfair set of rules...  Read more

The Trump Administration Moves to Embrace Roy Moore

Donald Trump's team finally moves off the side-line to support Moore in Alabama...  Read more

Air traffic control privatization is just an airline power grab

The modernization of our ATC system is well underway and the proposed solution is in search of a problem that doesn't exist...  Read more

Congress' budgetary uncertainty is harming the troops

The defense budget is big. The only thing more costly than spending $700 billion on national security is to not provide that funding...  Read more

Al Franken, Bill Clinton, Roy Moore, and Donald Trump: Sex and cynical politics

Much of "Me Too" was driven by the mantra, "Believe women." If partisans get their way, that mantra will be, "Believe women, but only if it helps our side."...  Read more

Inmates ask Trump to pardon people alongside turkeys

"For everyone we communicate with, it's like pouring salt in a wound," Amy Povah, a clemency recipient who founded Can-Do Clemency to advocate for other federal drug offenders, said about the turkey pardons...  Read more

The Republicans' astonishing, Orwellian change of heart on Putin

Following the presidential election, President Trump's tone changed toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We're going to have a great relationship with Putin and Russia," he told a victory rally...  Read more

Keystone XL oil pipeline faces critical decision

Nebraska's state energy regulators are set to make a key decision Monday on whether to allow TransCanada’s Keystone XL oil pipeline to move forward...  Read more

Trump Twitter Can Still Shock You

Why is tweeting about Jeff Flake more important to the president than passing tax reform?...  Read more