Democrats have fallen back in love with the filibuster. Mere weeks into President Trump’s second term, Senate Democrats are already making liberal use of the obstructive maneuver, flying in the ...

Then, at 11:18 a.m., Sen. Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the abortion bill. If Davis managed to keep the ...

Getting a plum government gig in Russia is a lot easier if you’ve served in the Kremlin’s presidential bodyguard agency, the Federal Protection Service (bonus points if you’ve saved Vladimir ...

Anti-social media is full of the usual stream of attacks on anyone who has the integrity to stand up against anything the Trump administration does. Most of the attacks are of the caliber of ...

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