Even though he’s had a relatively scandal-free presidency compared to his predecessors, Barack Obama’s two terms have nonetheless been marked by one controversy after another inside the conservative media bubble. In the age of the...

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King proposed an addendum to a bill before the House that would impose anti-trans bathroom rules on federal buildings. If the legislation is ratified, all people using facilities in public federal buildings must use...

Mary Katherine Ham on Wednesday became the latest conservative commentator to call out Donald Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord over racist statements about U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel. During an appearance on CNN’s New Day, Ham...

Donald Trump is really taking that “my African-American” thing seriously. Despite support from former KKK leaders, Trump’s acceptance speech from last night’s primary wins included a bizarre moment in his typical...

Teleprompter jokes are as reliable a staple of conservative comedy as fart jokes are to class clowns. Conservatives mock President Barack Obama’s reliance on teleprompters pretty much any time they gather in public — but what happens...

The question of whether Aboriginal People were the First Australians may be unanimously accepted today but research published back in 2001 suggested the contrary. A new study out this week shows how we re-examined the research and our results...

The north of Scotland has long been an important part of our quest to understand what causes multiple sclerosis (MS). Though we have known about the region’s high rate of the disease for some time, it moved centre stage after a 2012 study...

Ever since a study suggested that a “Planet Nine” could be lurking in the outskirts of our solar system, astronomers have been busy trying to pin it down. As nobody has actually observed the planet yet, this research has been largely...

During his barnstorming rallies to massive audiences, Bernie Sanders is fond of declaring “enough is enough!” And after the latest round of primary results, many Democratic party leaders will be hoping Sanders now feels similarly about his own...

We all intuitively understand the basics of time. Every day we count its passage and use it to schedule our lives. We also use time to navigate our way to the destinations that matter to us. In school we learned that speed and time will tell us...

On June 7, Hillary Clinton won enough pledged delegates to win nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate, the first woman to do so. Three prominent scholars of U.S. electoral politics react. The importance of treating women well...

Bernie Sanders will not become president of the United States. But he could still become president of Vermont if the Green Mountain State secedes. It’s not such a far-fetched notion. Vermont was an independent republic from 1777 to 1791, and...

TRENTON — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump treated Tuesday night like the unofficial beginning of what could be a bruising general election. But Bernie Sanders vowed to keep the Democratic primary going. A day after the Associated Press...

After years of racist statements, Donald Trump is finally starting to turn off some Republicans, including Joe Scarborough. On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” the co-host demanded that presumptive GOP nominee prove that he’s...

The father of a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman set up an online fundraiser to help pay legal fees for his sex offender son. Brock Turner was sentenced last week to just six months in a...