Ray Levy Uyeda

Republican senator for Texas and failed coup leader Ted Cruz apparently thinks his supporters are quite stupid. Either that, or he embarrassingly doesn't understand the quite simple terms of the Paris Agreement, the multinational climate accords…

The newly sworn-in Biden administration is already getting to work overturning four years of Trump administration policies, tackling everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to economic insecurity. But Biden also has plans to address the country's…

The U.S. Capitol is supposed to be one of the most secure buildings, second maybe only to the White House, in one of the most secure cities in the country. In less than one week, the country's political elite will convene at the steps of the Capitol…

This week, the Supreme Court issued its first abortion related-ruling since Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined its ranks in October. In a ruling issued Tuesday, the court found that patients seeking medication abortions must pick up the pills in…

After last week's siege on the Capitol, fomented by President Trump and carried out by his white supremacist supporters, most lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have spent the last few days offering platitudes and declarative statements about how…

As Washington, D.C., prepares for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden next week, police and intelligence agencies are ramping up security efforts in the wake of last Wednesday's siege on the Capitol — and in light of new information that…

In the aftermath of last week's siege on the United States Capitol Building, more details of the day continue to rise to the surface. As Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced a new article of impeachment against President Trump, we're…

Update Jan. 13: The federal government executed Montgomery early Wednesday morning. A federal judge had issued a stay late Monday, ruling that a trial was needed to determine whether Montgomery was mentally competent enough to be executed, but the…

Melania Trump is a first lady like no other. She's a former model. She really doesn't care. She apparently hates Christmas decorations. And she is down to wait an unreasonable and baffling amount of time to address major news that is directly…

The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) has fired two of the detectives involved in the March 13 killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor. The news comes ten months after the early morning raid on Taylor's home, in which plain-clothes officers…

About 15 minutes into the Electoral College process Wednesday, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stood to challenge the integrity of November's general election results. They cited voter fraud in Gosar's home state of Arizona — a…

It's rare for Congress to agree on anything — representatives couldn't even pass a second coronavirus relief package until nine months into the virus's ravaging of the U.S. But last week, as Republicans and Democrats arrived to Capitol Hill to…

The leader of the Proud Boys, a white supremacist group, has been arrested for destruction of property in the nation's capital ahead of anticipated large-scale protests opposing Wednesday's certification of November's general election results. A…

Political victories are rarely, if ever, about the candidates themselves. A network of political machinery, grassroots organizations, and behind-the-scenes leaders are the ones who propel candidates to fame — and then maybe even to victory — even if…

Protesters in Minneapolis are demanding justice for 23-year-old Dolal Idd, whom police killed in the early evening of Dec. 30. Police released body camera footage of the killing the following day, New Year's Eve, insisting that their shooting of the…

At some point in the future, a historian will attempt the herculean task of synthesizing and connecting the events of 2020. We started with the Democratic primaries, seeing an across the board shift toward progressive political ideas, like replacing…

This summer's uprisings defined a year of activism and movement work. Months of persistent and community-driven protests and direct action responded to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and spurred national debate and…

If you've been able to read the news lately you might have seen that President Trump finally signed a second coronavirus relief package Sunday. It calls for a continuation of the demands in March's CARES Act: rent relief, extension of unemployment…

Late Monday evening, a federal judge blocked an effort to keep more than 4,000 people across two Georgia counties from casting their ballots. With seven days until the two Georgia runoff elections to determine which political party takes control of…