BlogFlockIn 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, in 1776, he helped to draft and then signed the Declaration of Independence. An 81-year-old man in 1787, he…
House Speaker Mike Johnson sent members home until after the midterms, reportedly to avoid a vote on Representative Thomas Massie’s eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Massie’s articles cite War Powers Act violations tied to the Iran war, unauthorized strikes on boats near Venezuela, and 2025 strikes…
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Two Oregon lawmakers want to end an unusual exemption in the state’s records law that has kept the public from learning how hundreds of…
Yesterday U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper of the District of Columbia refused to permit the Kennedy Center board, stacked by Trump with his own loyalists, to return Trump’s name to the facade of the building. Cooper reiterated that Congress had prohibited such an addition and would have to change that…
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As the nation gears up for the 2026 midterm elections, we are drawing a line beneath the first phase of the 250 to 250 project.
The project grew out of frustration that our history seemed to be mired in a political morass during what should have been a celebration of…
This week, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s plans to impose new rules for mail-in voting for the midterm…
Samantha Ramos stood at the front of her second grade classroom, a…
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