Author: Christopher Palma

Source: Brandon Bell / Getty In yet another demonstration of President Donald Trump’s inexplicable hold on the Republican Party, Ken Paxton, the scandal-prone Texas attorney general, beat incumbent Sen. John Cornyn after receiving Trump’s endorsement earlier this month.  According to the New York Times, the race wasn’t even close, with

Falling birth rates, low budgets and funding cuts, and a rapid expansion of school choice are the few forces most responsible for the decline in traditional public school enrollment, and they are all accelerating. Between fall 2019 and fall 2023, public school enrollment dropped from 50.8 million to 49.5 million,

Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty Look, President Donald Trump might not be the first president to deport undocumented migrants en masse, but there’s no denying that his administration’s approach to mass deportation has been one that seems to be indifferent to human suffering at best, and intentionally cruel and bigoted

Source: Mountain West Dermatology / mountainwestdermatology.com For people who claim to be experiencing unprecedented levels of “Black fatigue,” white people, especially white conservatives, just can’t seem to stay out of Black people’s business, especially when they feel excluded from it. Take, for example, the lawsuit filed by Do No Harm — which

Source: Mondadori Portfolio / Getty Pope Leo XIV issued a historic apology on May 25, openly acknowledging the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and condemning the Church’s centuries-long silence on the practice. In the document, the pope described that legacy as a “wound in Christian memory,” according to ABC7.

Source: Win McNamee / Getty President Donald Trump paid a visit to Walter Reed National Military Hospital for what he called his “6-month physical,” or what he referred to last October as his “sort of semi-annual physical,” while the White House called it “routine yearly checkup,” despite it coming six

Source: @AttorneyCrump / Twitter / @AttorneyCrump / Twitter Family members, supporters, and community members gathered on May 23 to honor George Floyd, six years after he was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and three other officers. A memorial was held at the intersection of 38th Street and

Source: pepifoto / Getty Primary elections in Alabama and several other southern states became unnecessarily complicated after the Supreme Court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act last month. Alabama postponed the primary election in several districts so state legislators could move forward with implementing a map previously found to be

Source: You know, I’m remiss to call Texas’ runoff primary for the GOP’s senate nominee a “test of President Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party” simply because recent elections in Indiana and Kentucky have shown that yes, Trump still holds an iron grip in deep red states. That being

Source: NurPhoto / Getty As the U.S./Israeli war on Iran rages on, new updates reveal that, as far as information that is available to the public goes, not a whole lot has changed over the last few months, which is to say that President Donald Trump is still claiming a