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Is the Cuomo reckoning finally at hand?
On Wednesday morning, Lindsey Boylan — a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and current candidate for Manhattan borough president — accused her former employer of sexual harassment and creating a toxic work environment during her time in…
By Rafi Schwartz
An ex-Trump appointee was arrested for assaulting officers during the Capitol riot
By Rafi Schwartz
It's been nearly two months since MAGA-addled insurrectionists breached the gates of the Capitol Building to rifle through papers, smear feces on the walls, call for the lynching of high-ranking government officials, or bludgeon a Capitol Hill…
Detroit turned away thousands of COVID vaccine doses because they weren't 'the best'
By Rafi Schwartz
It takes an incredible amount of chutzpa to look an entire city in the eye in the middle of a catastrophic pandemic and say that, yes, we did indeed turn down a shipment of crucial, deeply-sought-after vaccine doses — but only because we'll accept…
Kentucky wants to make criminals of people who are assaulted by cops
By Rafi Schwartz
The Kentucky legislature has moved one step closer to making it illegal to taunt, mock, or insult police officers so much that they react with force. On Thursday, a state Senate committee voted 7-3 to advance a bill that would make criminals of…
Revisiting reparations: It's time for the U.S. to pay off its debt to Black Americans
By Anne C. Bailey
Some 156 years after the end of the Civil War and the official abolition of slavery through the 13th Amendment, the idea of reparations is gaining currency in Washington. On March 1, Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden,…
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp would "absolutely" back Donald Trump in 2024
By Rafi Schwartz
I wouldn't say I feel sorry for Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, an arguably terrible man who has had an objectively negative impact on, well, everything. But if there's a way to feel bad for someone without actually, y'know... feeling bad,…
Senate Republicans are going to absurd lengths to block your stimulus check
By Rafi Schwartz
We're closing in on a full year since the CARES Act of 2020 sent some desperately needed pandemic payments to most people's bank accounts, and more than two months since the laughably insufficient $600 follow-up from the Trump administration. Now,…
The House just passed the George Floyd police reform bill. Here's what it does.
By Rafi Schwartz
For the second time in as many years, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping police reform bill named after George Floyd, the unarmed black man killed by Minneapolis Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin this past May. H.R. 1280, the…
Lawmakers from both parties have had enough of the president’s war powers
By Rafi Schwartz
It's been three decades since Congress first voted to give the President of the United States an astonishingly wide berth to conduct military operations in Iraq and the Gulf, and almost two decades since they reasserted those permissions in the…
Feds are preparing for a possible second insurrection attempt on March 4
By Rafi Schwartz
We're not even three months out from the last time a group of Trump-addled insurrectionists breached the halls of congress in a violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election and lynch anyone they considered political enemies, and already federal…
A new report confirms America's democracy is more fragile than ever
By Rafi Schwartz
It's pretty widely accepted that this past year was one of the worst in recent memory for huge swaths of the country. There was a catastrophically bungled pandemic; a tidal wave of social justice protests met with brutal military force and…
Madison Cawthorn can't escape his web of lies
By AJ Dellinger
North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn does not seem to have a firm grasp on reality. The freshman congressman has had details of his background called into question since bursting onto the political scene as a young Republican who…
Texas is inexplicably reopening and doing away with masks
By Vanessa Taylor
After a full year of living in a pandemic, many Americans are eager to get back to normal — or, as close to normal as possible. That desire, though, shouldn't get in the way of safety protocols — especially as new coronavirus variants continue to…
Minneapolis thought it was a good idea to hire influencers for Derek Chauvin's trial
By Vanessa Taylor
This past summer, protests erupted in Minneapolis, Minnesota after video emerged of police officer Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The local protests inspired similar uprisings nationwide, along…
This bizarre G.I. Joe campaign ad isn't enough to take down Marjorie Taylor Greene
By Rafi Schwartz
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who better represents the distilled toxicity of the post-Trump Republican party than Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: a committed conspiracy theorist, antisemite, and shameless seditionist whose rising…
We should be more concerned about actual Nazis than the shape of the CPAC stage
By Rafi Schwartz
CPAC, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, occupies a strange place in the national zeitgeist: It's a three ring circus of grifters, shameless self-promotors, and various z-list wannabes — while simultaneously featuring the most…
Progressive candidate Elisa Crespo wants to guarantee a job for every New Yorker
By Lexi McMenamin
The Bronx has long been a hotbed for political tensions, and this last year was no different. The New York City borough got slammed by coronavirus, and it still has the highest positive testing rate in the city. While wealth flushes into Manhattan,…
Election map: Here's how many points each state gets in the Electoral College
By Mic Staff
The Electoral College is a difficult thing to wrap one's head around. Although Americans like to think that they directly, democratically elect their presidents, the job is actually done by electors: people whom each state's Democratic and…
The Biden administration has finally acknowledged the truth about Jamal Khashoggi's death
By Rafi Schwartz
A damning new report released by the Biden administration's Office of National Intelligence on Friday appears to confirm what national security and foreign policy experts have long suspected: that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was directly…
Mitch McConnell would “absolutely” back Trump as the nominee in 2024
By Rafi Schwartz
To any NASA rocket scientists or NASCAR mechanics reading this who happen to be searching for a new form of engine lubricant: I suggest you look no further than the distilled essence of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — easily one of the…
Biden is down to hire casual stoners because he's cool, man
By Rafi Schwartz
With the march toward nationwide marijuana legalization well underway, the Biden administration is moving to address one of the inevitable (if not under-appreciated) arenas in which cannabis's increased ubiquity might play a complicating role:…