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Tech entrepreneur-turned-universal-basic-income-adherent Andrew Yang was never going to win the 2020 presidential election. But Yang's quixotic run for the Democratic nomination managed to vault the political newbie into prime position to become the…

It looks like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's much-memed coronavirus management has led to a mass exodus among his state's top health officials. According to a new report from the New York Times, at least nine high ranking health officials have…

With a new president comes a new administration. There have been rumors about who President Biden might choose for his Cabinet picks for months, but he's finally been able to start bringing people in in his first week-plus in office. Last week,…

You've really gotta hand it to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the sheer, uncut, rocket-grade hubris it takes to publish a book touting his "leadership lessons" from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, even as each successive episode in New York…

Just two weeks ago, 22-year-old Andrei Doroshin, a Drexel University grad student and entrepreneur, was being touted in the national media for the work Philly Fighting COVID — his for-profit organization — had done to "[create] a system that will…

I can't believe I have to write these words but: No, one of the oldest banking institutions on Earth does not control an orbital death ray, and no, they did not use it to ignite California's deadly Camp Fire in 2018. I have to write these…

How long the country wrestles with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic will be directly tied to the actions the government takes right now. Among those actions is a call for a direct cash payment. Americans got their first stimulus…

In the days after former President Donald Trump refused to condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, one of the Trump administration's lesser-publicized evils began garnering an added layer…

On Wednesday evening, the city of Austin, Texas, voted to spend nearly $7 million to purchase a local hotel, which it intends to transform into a permanent transitional home for city residents experiencing homelessness. The unanimous decision from…

Executive orders are a central part of any presidential administration's policy agenda. They're a tool with great power, yet are often misunderstood. President Barack Obama used executive orders to get around a Congress dedicated to undermining his…

Now that Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States, here's a complicated jumble of consonants and vowels I bet most of you thought you'd never need to think about ever again: hydroxychloroquine. The former president's favorite quack…

President Biden has been promising one of the most ambitious and aggressive environmental agendas in history, and on Wednesday he took the biggest step yet toward achieving that goal. In a series of executive orders, Biden declared that climate…

When Enrique Tarrio was arrested in Washington, D.C., just days before the right-wing Proud Boys street gang he leads helped orchestrate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, it was not (perhaps unsurprisingly) his first run-in with the police.…

You'd be hard pressed to find a more reality-averse, dangerously unhinged member of Congress these days than Georgia's newly elected representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. (I say this knowing full well there's another congressman who once put a…

It's well understood, though at times not acknowledged, that access to power in America means you can get away with things those without said access cannot. There's no clearer contemporary example of this than former President Donald Trump, who,…

On Tuesday, President Biden signed an executive order that directs the Department of Justice to end federal use of private prisons. "To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the federal…

Just a week into President Biden's term and many of the anticipated political moves have already come to pass: The Senate has approved a few of Biden's Cabinet nominees, he's already signed a flurry of executive orders chipping away at his…

The United States is going electric. On Monday, President Biden said that he would seek to convert the entirety of the federal government's current collection of nearly 650,000 cars and trucks over to American-made vehicles that don't rely on fossil…

The Senate voted 84-15 to confirm economist Janet Yellen as U.S. treasury secretary on Jan. 25, and her in tray will require every ounce of her vast experience to pilot the economy through a daunting confluence of challenges. How the U.S. manages…