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Pollak: Bogus NBER Paper Accuses Sean Hannity of Mass Murder

A team of economists has published a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper that accuses Fox News host Sean Hannity of killing thousands of people through “misinformation” about the coronavirus pandemic.

Fox News Host Sean Hannity speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conferen

Seattle City Council Backs Call to Defund the Police by 50%

A veto-proof majority of the Seattle City Council backed a proposal Thursday to defund the Seattle Police Department by 50% — including a proposal to remove 911 dispatchers from police control and to “imagine life beyond policing.”

A 1970's-era poster of activist Angela Davis hangs at a boarded up and closed Seattle poli

Blue State Blues: Trump, Lincoln, and the Election of 1864

Nervous supporters of President Donald Trump have been reminding themselves that the presidential election looked as tough at this point of the 2016 as it does today. An even better parallel might be the election of 1864, when President Abraham

Abraham Lincoln 1864 (Currier and Ives / Wikimedia Commons)

Supreme Court Rules Oklahoma Can’t Prosecute Crimes on Creek Lands

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a narrow 5-4 decision that the State of Oklahoma cannot prosecute crimes by Native Americans on Creek lands, holding that they remain a “reservation” and that federal courts therefore have criminal jurisdiction.

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9 Radical Ideas in the Biden-Sanders ‘Unity’ Platform

The proposed platform marks Biden’s continued shift to the left, as the so-called “moderate” candidate — a label he has rejected — continues to be steered toward more radical positions to appeal to the party’s base, offering “revolutionary institutional changes.”

Democratic presidential hopefuls former US vice president Joe Biden (L) and Senator Bernie

Tammy Duckworth Attacks Trump over Dubious Russia Bounty Claims

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) attacked President Donald Trump Tuesday, saying he was not fit to be commander-in-chief because he allegedly overlooked intelligence reports of Russia paying bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Tammy Duckworth (Jessica Kourkounis / Getty)

Democrats Ask Supreme Court to Hear Emoluments Clause Case

Congressional Democrats are taking their Emoluments Clause case to the Supreme Court, claiming that President Donald Trump has been violating the Constitution since the day he took office by earning money from foreign business.

View of the US Supreme Court Building on a bright Christmas Day

CNN Praised Mt. Rushmore When Obama Visited; Attacks When Trump Visits

CNN described Mount Rushmore as a “monument of two slave owners” on “land wrestled [sic] away from Native Americans” ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit there on Friday. But in 2008, CNN marveled at the landmark when then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) visited Rushmore on the campaign trail.

Obama Rushmore (Chip Somodevilla / Getty)