The Issue Is: Brian Goldsmith, Dan Schnur, Elizabeth Wagmeister This week, Elex is joined by political analysts Brian Goldsmith and Dan Schnur to discuss the politics of crime in California. Variety’s Elizabeth Wagmeister reacts to the SAG-AFTRA strike and the Hollywood shutdown. LOS ANGELES – A busy week in California, as state legislators debated the … Read more
“Strike a balance” on abortion access. Promote “all-of-the-above” energy production. Act now to address Social Security solvency. Stop releasing asylum applicants into the country. Protect transgender people from discrimination while restricting gender education in elementary schools. Such ideas anchor the new political middle ground that the moderate group No Labels proposed Saturday as a starting … Read more
Only Hungary’s Viktor Orbán comes anywhere near to exasperating Western allies as much as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Anyone reckoning on longevity in office diminishing the Turkish president’s skillful unpredictability would have been disabused by his tour de force at NATO’s annual summit in Vilnius this week. Erdoğan jolted Western allies — and Vladimir Putin … Read more
Published 1 hour ago Image source, Reuters Image caption, There is no shortage of people prepared to pay huge sums to get on boats bound for Europe By Nick Robinson Presenter, Today programme The number of boats carrying migrants from North Africa across the Mediterranean is growing fast – but Europe is struggling to come … Read more
Justice Brett Kavanaugh sought to push back against criticism that the U.S. Supreme Court has grown increasingly partisan, saying Thursday, “The court is an institution of law. It’s an institution of law, not of politics, not of partisanship.” In remarks at a judicial conference in Minnesota, Kavanaugh touted the court’s mixed decision votes this past … Read more
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, is pushing legislation to create a commission with broad authority to declassify government documents about U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial matters, in an attempt to force the government to share all that it knows about unidentified phenomena. The measure offers the possibility of pushing back against the conspiracy … Read more
Two world-renowned virologists appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and delivered a pointed defense of their findings that the coronavirus pandemic was natural in origin, and told skeptical Republicans that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci did not exert influence over a scientific paper they wrote to that effect. The paper is at the heart of Republicans’ … Read more
Leaders in both parties pushed back on comments made by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who argued in a CNN interview on Monday night that “white nationalist is just a cover word for the Democrats now where they can use it to try to make people mad across the country.” “My opinion of a white nationalist, … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — Russia’s first openly transgender politician has abandoned plans to run in a gubernatorial election, saying that the country’s latest anti-LGBTQ bill has eroded the support needed to register her candidacy. Yulia Alyoshina had planned to represent the opposition Civil Initiative party at the polls in southern Siberia’s Altai region in September, when … Read more
Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a former congressman, senator, governor, and failed presidential candidate from Connecticut who died last month, is being memorialized as a moderate Republican unafraid to take on his own party. Weicker served one term in the House of Representatives before being elected to the Senate three times, finishing his last term in … Read more