Trump Deletes Tweets Backing GOP Loser As Anti-Sharia Crusader Wins Alabama

Roy Moore has suggested that the 9/11 attacks were God’s way of punishing America for sinfulness, that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and that Muslims should be barred from serving in Congress.

Jake Johnson
By Jake Johnson
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore during speaks during his election party, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP/Brynn Anderson)

President Donald Trump and the Republican leadership suffered a series of humiliating losses Tuesday, starting with the collapse of their Obamacare repeal efforts and culminating in the victory of Roy Moore—a pistol-waving Christian "theocrat" who believes communities in the United States are being overtaken by Sharia law—over the Trump- and

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Americans’ Views Of Police, Professors Split Along Party Lines

While 66 percent of Democrats gave professors a warm or very warm rating, only 30 percent of Republicans gave professors a warm rating.

Kelsey Jukam
By Kelsey Jukam
Pro-police demonstrators wave to passing cars as they stand outside the Ferguson Police Department Sunday, March 15, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

The majority of Americans in both political parties hold teachers and members of the military in high regard, but are starkly divided in their opinions of police and college professors, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday. In a survey conducted between Aug. 8 to 21, Pew researchers asked 4,904 American adults about their

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Study Confirms Your Worst Fears About Fox News

Everyone knows the news outlet serves as a virtual propaganda tool, but new research shows just how effective they are at it

Julia Conley
By Julia Conley
Fox news Channel's Sean Hannity campaigns on behalf of of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.March 18, 2016, in Phoenix.

Fox News Channel has been recognized since its inception in 1996, when it was established by Republican operative Roger Ailes, as a right-leaning news source. But a new study published in the American Economic Review shows just how influential the channel is when it comes to changing viewers' minds, causing them to shift to the right on political

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Kansan Fired From Republican Kris Kobach’s Office For Not Going To Church

Courtney Canfield testified she did not participate in the notoriously conservative Kris Kobach’s after-hours office Bible study group and objected to religious materials that were often passed around.

Joe Parton
By Joe Parton
President Donald Trump, with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

A Kansas woman testified in federal court Tuesday that she believes she was fired from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office because she did not go to church. Courtney Canfield sued the secretary of state’s office and Assistant Secretary of State Eric Rucker, the man who hired her. Kobach is not named in the lawsuit. On Tuesday,

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Republican Anti-Protest Bills Protect Drivers That Run Over Protesters

Bills immunizing drivers from liability if they hit protesters are part of a raft of anti-protesting legislation that Republicans have advanced in 2017.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

A number of state legislatures have considered bills that shield drivers from liability if they run over protesters, who are “obstructing” traffic. These anti-protest bills from Republican lawmakers reflect a political climate in which far-right activists increasingly find it permissible to mow down Black Lives Matter protesters and other

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Poll: Trump’s Election Is Stressing People Out, Especially Women

The poll found that women Democrats are more than three times more likely to have attended a political event or protest in the past eight months than Republican-leaning women.

Kelsey Jukam
By Kelsey Jukam
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during while speaking at a rally in Millington, Tenn. Tough talk about torture is a guaranteed applause line for Donald Trump on the GOP presidential stump. Trump has repeatedly advocated waterboarding, an enhanced interrogation technique that simulates the feeling of drowning. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

American women are paying more attention to politics since Donald Trump was elected, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday, and the same percentage of Americans of both sexes said they find it stressful to talk politics with people with whom they disagree. Fifty-eight percent of women said they are paying increased

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