U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Gorbachev “did more than any other individual to bring about the peaceful end of the Cold War.” Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet president whose gradual opening of his country paved the way for both the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the communist empire, died Tuesday at […]
“Republicans revealing what they REALLY think about the working class,” said one progressive commentator. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz took a thrashing from progressives on Friday after he underhandedly acknowledged that President Joe Biden’s move this week to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower is likely to help Democrats in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections. […]
Noting the ex-president once said that “only guilty people and mobsters plead the Fifth,” a Democratic congressman said that “today he proved the point.” Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to answer questions from New York Attorney General Letitia James about his business dealings, explaining he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. […]
“We must denounce the Big Lie and those who refuse to uphold the will of the people in our elections,” said one democracy defender. Democracy defenders on Monday welcomed reports that Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, is calling for a special prosecutor to probe allegations of a Republican-led attempt to feloniously break into voting machines after […]