The high-stakes showdown over a proposed wealth tax is intensifying in California, pitting progressive firebrand Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and a healthcare union against Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and a coalition of business titans and cryptocurrency executives. Sanders is set to rally supporters in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon, casting the “billionaire tax” as […]
The Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into Portland Public Schools following a complaint that alleged the district engaged in unlawful racial discrimination by creating a Center for Black Student Excellence. The inquiry, announced Tuesday, stems from a December complaint filed by Defending Education, a conservative national nonprofit group that challenges diversity, equity, […]
Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha said Tuesday that Stephen Colbert’s show is “simply a super PAC” for Democratic politicians. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is drawing attention online after posting its interview with Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico on YouTube, despite CBS’s legal advice. The network said it advised Colbert that releasing this […]
Fashion magnate Les Wexner told the House oversight committee on Wednesday that he was “conned” by Jeffrey Epstein and denied any wrongdoing related to the late disgraced financier. Wexner was subpoenaed to testify before the oversight committee to answer questions about his ties to Epstein after his name appeared in files released by the Justice […]
Paris‘s public prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, is calling for the French victims of Jeffrey Epstein to come forward as her office dually investigates the sexual and financial crimes related to Epstein in France. Epstein, the convicted sex trafficker from New York who died while in prison, owned property in Paris and had several ties to people […]
Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage has tapped a New Right intellectual with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration as his party’s new head of policy. James Orr, an English theologian and philosopher whom U.S. Vice President JD Vance has described as his “British sherpa,” will lead Reform U.K.’s policy-crafting as it hopes to ride its […]
Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson said on Tuesday that former President Barack Obama has “no concept” of acting divisively when assessing the two political parties in a new interview. Obama said on Saturday that Democrats are “coming together” as the Republican Party engages in “the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics.” Benson said he […]
At least a dozen House and Senate Democrats will skip President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week to instead attend a rally on the National Mall organized to protest the first year of his second term. Several progressive leaders will use the “People’s State of the Union,” hosted by MoveOn and liberal […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Monday that there was a downside to the Democratic Party being “so inclusive” under former President Barack Obama. Obama addressed the political environment in the United States on Saturday, saying the Republican Party engages in “the mean, angry, exclusive, us-them, divisive politics,” whereas Democrats are “coming together.” […]
Late-night host Stephen Colbert criticized CBS on Tuesday over what he called a “crap” corporate statement regarding an interview with Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico. CBS released a statement that said it did not bar Colbert from airing the interview with Talarico, but rather provided legal advice that doing so could trigger the Federal […]
