Democrats have lost ground with the working class for a simple reason: They became “globalist shills.” Under Bill Clinton’s leadership, the party enacted the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and normalized trade relations with China, policies that had devastating consequences for the American worker. Barack Obama had a chance to chart a different course, […]

Democrats will hold some of North Carolina’s highest offices, including the governorship, come January. But these incoming lawmakers will be less powerful than their predecessors, after the Republican-dominated legislature stripped away several of their duties this week. It isn’t the first time Republicans in North Carolina’s state legislature have shifted the balance of power away […]

• From the Desk of: Ed Jay
• From the Desk Of: Anousheh Ansari

In November, satirical newspaper The Onion won a bankruptcy auction to purchase Infowars, a website dedicated to hawking anti-government conspiracy theories. On Wednesday, however, a federal bankruptcy judge rejected the purchase on the grounds that the auction wasn’t conducted in a sufficiently transparent fashion, and didn’t produce as many proceeds as it could have.  At […]

On Thursday, the White House announced that President Joe Biden is commuting sentences for roughly 1,500 people who had been released from prison during the pandemic and have since been placed on home confinement — a record number of commutations in a single day. Biden also pardoned 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes and said he […]