Rafi Schwartz

As millions of Americans stand on the precipice of homelessness, starvation, and financial ruin, lawmakers in Washington seem helplessly at odds over how to help their constituents during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. With the extended…

There's hardly a more striking example of the gross inequalities baked into America's financial system than the fact that the upper echelons of the country's billionaire class have seen their wealth skyrocket during the past few months of pandemic.…

Speaking on Thursday during an official White House visit to Clyde, Ohio, President Trump did his very best raise the stakes of the upcoming election between him and Joe Biden as high as humanly possibly. How high, you ask? High enough to shake the…

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that she has filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association, accusing the organization of longstanding financial mismanagement and criminal conduct and vowing to dissolve the…

Much as President Trump has downplayed, distanced himself from, and altogether denied the effect Russian cyber-interference had in his 2016 electoral win, the broad consensus across Washington — from the intelligence community to the nation's top…

That Florida's unemployment system is an unholy tangle of bureaucratic dead ends, technological fuck ups, and malicious under-resourcing is not, in and of itself, anything new. For years the state, under Republican leadership, has rolled back its…

Joe Biden's main proposition to voters is roughly as follows: Donald Trump is a lunatic who has no respect for our precious norms. I, however, am not a lunatic, and I deeply love and cherish our norms. Therefore, vote for me: the norm-loving…

A new tranche of court documents release by a federal judge in New York on Thursday shed appalling new light on the allegations against deceased sexual predator and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as well as his longtime associate and accused enabler…

As communities around the country grapple with the no-win challenge of how best to start the upcoming school year, a group of Iowa educators have kicked off a grassroots campaign to push Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds to institute a statewide mask…

In what was perhaps his most overtly political appearance in years, former President Barack Obama delivered a thundering eulogy for the civil rights icon and late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). Obama called on America to carry forth Lewis's commitment to…

As the likelihood of Congress getting its act together and giving the American public what it needs to economically survive the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — namely, money — dwindles by the day, Sen. Bernie Sanders and a number of other Democratic…

President Trump moved one step further along the road to fascism on Thursday morning, musing aloud as to whether he should "delay the election until people can properly, securely, and safely vote???" According to The New York Times, Thursday's…

After weeks of serving as an unwelcome, and largely anonymous occupying force in Portland, Oregon, the Department of Homeland Security will allegedly start pulling back its federal troops from the city. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced on Wednesday…

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus, just one day after he appeared at a contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr sans mask. Gohmert, whose understanding of science…

More than two months after George Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis police set off a wave of social justice and racial equality protests across the United States, Floyd's family unveiled a unique tribute to their lost loved one this week,…

At some point when all this is all over with, our post-pandemic society (whatever that might look like) will begin to cast its critical eye back to this moment in time to try and understand what happened, why, and who is to either blame or laud for…

What once was a shining example of how best to beat the coronavirus has become a nightmare for residents of Texas's Starr County, where the pandemic has become so bad, the local hospital has enacted emergency guidelines allowing them to send home…

While President Trump insists the mere existence of "boat parades" is proof positive that he's well on his way to coasting into a second term in office, a pair of newly released polls — that is, actual data, and not just pretty pictures of people…

In a lot of ways, perhaps more so than in any other presidential election in recent history, Joe Biden's path to the White House is astonishingly straightforward: All he really has to do is appear minimally competent while President Trump deploys…