Right-wing anti-vaxxers pushed a debunked conspiracy blaming COVID shots after NFL player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field on Monday. Hamlin, a 24-year-old safety for the Buffalo Bills, suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field after a scary hit to his chest during the Monday Night Football matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals. Players … Read more
Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates was assigned deputies from the county sheriff’s office to guard him after being moved to an “undisclosed” location in response to disturbing threats related to the 2022 midterm elections, according to Fox 10 in Phoenix. Gates, who is the Republican chair of the Maricopa County Elections Department, defended the county … Read more
The group also planned a campaign of “intimidation and terror” against mosques and migrants, the government claims A group of people with far-right views have been ordered to stand trial over an alleged plot to attack President Emmanuel Macron in 2018. The suspected leader of the accused allegedly discussed stabbing Macron with a ceramic knife … Read more
Conservatives are starting to blame Donald Trump after a Republican “red wave” failed to materialize during the midterm elections. After years of Trump choosing candidates and demanding parties back them, conservatives are starting to question whether hitching their wagon to the former president is worth it after all. Commentators have taken the election results as … Read more
In his speech at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on Saturday night, Donald Trump couldn’t help but take a shot at Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla, who will likely be his main competition should they both run for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination. That shot by the former president, who will be holding a rally in … Read more
Conservative activists are challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters under a law passed last year by the Republican-controlled state legislature. In-person voting starts Oct. 17 in Georgia, where Democrat Stacey Abrams is challenging Gov. Brian Kemp in a rematch and Republican Herschel Walker is battling Sen. Raphael Warnock in a race that … Read more
Right-wing populists keep winning in Europe – a ‘difficult’ scenario for the unelected EU leaders Europe’s far-right scored another victory this week as Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and her party, Brothers of Italy, won big in the country’s general election. It marks the first time since 1948, when Italy’s anti-fascist constitution came into force, that a … Read more
In a column published over the Fourth of July weekend I compared Joe Biden to America’s founding fathers — in particular to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — because they all supported ambitious economic policies that were not realized in their lifetimes. (Or that potentially, in Biden’s case, will never be realized at all.) One … Read more