Despite bizarre Republican rhetoric about “skyrocketing” crime rates, all of the recent news on the issue has been quite encouraging. Axios reported a few weeks ago, for example, that the number of homicides in major American cities “is falling at its quickest pace in decades.” The report added that the United States is now “on […]
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is courting Latino voters, and he’s enlisting the help of ex-Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva, whose pugilistic style has been compared to Donald Trump. Villanueva will join Kennedy at a Cesar Chavez Day event in Los Angeles next weekend, where the political scion will highlight his family’s historic ties […]
Mitch McConnell’s decision to step aside as US Senate Republican leader raises questions about whether the chamber long known for being slow and deliberative will be swept up in the heated populism of Donald Trump. In recent weeks, the Senate has taken on the more raucous atmosphere of the House of Representatives, with Republican hardliners […]