Some key House Republicans have chosen to support a Democratic bill called the Scientific Integrity Act. That nearly every House Democrat is a co-sponsor of the bill was apparently insufficient warning.   Recently passed out of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, the bill actually has nothing to do with what one would reasonably […]

The Obama administration instructed her on how to respond to lawmakers’ questions about the lucrative employment of Vice President Joe Biden’s son by an energy company in Ukraine, the former ambassador to the former Soviet republic testified Friday. Marie Yovanovitch, who was recalled and reassigned six months ago, also said she felt threatened by President […]

“Democrats are intent on impeaching President Trump for something. It really doesn’t matter to them what it is,” says Heritage Foundation legal scholar Tom Jipping. He joins the podcast to explain why lawyers, not lawmakers, are doing much of the questioning; what’s next for the impeachment process; and what the main takeaways are from the […]

The lawyer for one of the first witnesses at House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings has a resume that includes the Obama White House, former Vice President Al Gore’s office, and House Democrats themselves.  The lawyer for another impeachment witness in the public process raised the specter of impeaching President Donald Trump in 2018, has represented […]

“I consider myself a liberal. I still consider myself a feminist,” says writer Meghan Daum. But the past few years have left her shaken. “I did not feel that the new left was necessarily representing my values all the time. There was a sort of purity-policing that interestingly we used to associate with the right.” […]