Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Politics

• Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret Sullivan
• A Republican Senator Has Repeatedly Failed to Ban Porn. This Time Might Be Different.
• Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Is in Turmoil, but at Least He’s Getting a New Ride
• The boy who cried 'fascism'
• The âBig, Beautiful Billâ will bring big benefits for blue-collar workers
• Restructuring US Foreign Aid: A Practionerâs View
• The N-word is simply not to be uttered by Whites. It’s an abomination of the American spirit. It’s akin to acknowledging America will forever be unstable and dysfunctional
• Trump reportedly offered Putin a dangerous concession: de jure recognition of Russia’s annexation of Crimea
• Biden book claims journalists like Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson were kept in the dark about Biden’s decline
• Analysis: Georgia isn’t just a battleground — it’s the South’s political crossroads
• The futility of the Russia-Ukraine peace talks
• There is only one reason Democrats want noncitizen voting to be easier
• Biden struggles to recall simple facts during interview with special counsel Robert Hur
• Klavan: How can the news media report all this news in a way that reflects the outlooks of Americans everywhere?
• Zohran Mamdani’s Holocaust non-vote disqualifies him from NYC’s mayoralty
• NJ Transit strike has its roots in the hapless MTA’s Metro-North and LIRR labor contracts
• Trump’s ‘knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution’ is tackling long-festering ills no one else would
• SCOTUS again halts Trump's Alien Enemies Act deportations
• Trump’s $400M Qatari jet: Letters to the Editor — May 16, 2025
• Supreme Court rules that Trump administration violated due process rights of Venezuelan migrants
• SCOTUS to CASA to A.A.R.P.: In Case Of (Perceived) Emergency, Ignore The Rules, And Make Stuff Up
• Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has a clear path to the GOP nomination for Ohio governor after the state’s attorney general suspended his campaign
• Missouri Senate passes resolution to replace abortion-through-all-nine-months Amendment 3 with a promise to protect unborn life
• Republicans want to boot illegals off Medicaid, but Democrats say it's the worst of all possible things
• James Comey's deleted Instagram post is obviously protected by the First Amendment
• Supreme Court Enjoins Summary Removal of Alleged Tren de Aragua Members under Alien Enemies Act
• Former journalist Hanna Trudo is running for Congress in New Hampshire, claiming she grew up in a working-class family
• Retired Lt. Garet Davidson is accused of leaking the writings of the Covenant School shooter
• 10 inmates escape from prison in New Orleans, at least four of them charged with murder or attempted murder
• Cori Bush was the only member of Congress who claimed to have performed a miracle while in office
• Opinion Granting Bail to Rumeysa Ozturk (Author of Op-Ed Urging Boycott of Israel)
• Jack Goldsmith: "The Solicitor General Embraces Judicial Supremacy"
• James Comey dog-whistling his desire for President Trump to be assassinated via a now-infamous social media post is a final befitting act by the disgraced former FBI director, says John Avlon
• James Comey dog-whistling his desire for President Trump to be assassinated via a now-infamous social media post is a final befitting act by the disgraced former FBI director, says John Avlon
• A Simple Defense of Nationwide Injunctions
• NYC should look to the Mississippi Miracle to learn how to teach reading
• Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
• James Comey’s new book is about prosecuting a right-wing commentator for making vaguely worded threats
• Progressive era is over, NY’s leaky mega-budget and other commentary
• Trump’s attack on Perkins Coie lawyer John Eastman is part of the radical Left’s war against lawyers
• The Trump DOJ Tells SCOTUS Its Plan to Ignore the Courts
• Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill’ fails to advance in House Budget Committee
• Pulitzer Prize administrator mocks conservative journalist for questioning why the group gave an award to an anti-Israel journalist
• Kennedy Center acting director Richard Grenell responds to reports that employees plan to unionize
• Biden’s staff considered the possibility that he might need a wheelchair
• TechnoMetrica conducted the League of American Workers survey in Wisconsin
• The 1792 Exchange is urging 92 companies to end their participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index
• Former FBI Director James Comey posted a photo of seashells with the numbers “86 47” and the caption, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk”
• What Donald Trump did this week should terrify Benjamin Netanyahu. This is why | Jonathan Freedland
• This week, every GOP senator except one and 177 out of 220 signed letter to Trump urging that Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium be permanently eliminated
• Trump blasts Supreme Court as 'radical Left' tries to intimidate justices
• Kash Patel Says FBI Is Shutting Down D.C. HQ
• Russia and Ukraine to meet for peace talks for first time since March 2022
• Comey, Trump, and ‘8647’ - Washington Examiner
• Forget the DEI hires – meet Trump’s latest WTF hire | Arwa Mahdawi
• How Republicans learned to love Donald Trump's lavish lifestyle
• Trump says he didn't consult Israel before announcing Syria's new government
• Legal Filing: Smartmatic Bled Cash Long Before 2020 Election Beef
• The hyper-aggressive, comically loyal government flacks who talk like Trump
• House Budget Committee vote on sweeping tax and spending bill in jeopardy as conservative lawmakers signal opposition
• ProPublica Selects 13 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training
• "A court captured by far-right conspiracy theories": How the GOP drove the Supreme Court off a cliff
• Trump's plan to 'unleash' police risks more abuses of everyone's rights
• Thom Tillis wants voters to forget his role in helping sink Ed Martin’s nomination for D.C. attorney
• S.E. Cupp: In U.S. you can be charged for using racial slur, but it happens anyway
• Indiana AG Launches Investigation Into Notre Dame's DEI Regime
• The Department of Homeland Security is sending an SOS to the U.S. Supreme Court to deport violent Venezuelan gang members
• Texas Lawmakers Push to Enforce Election Transparency Law After Newsrooms Found School Districts Failed to Comply
• Norm Eisen, who vowed to file 100 lawsuits against the second Trump administration, was scheduled to advise Democrat governors on how to defy federal policy
• I’ve been critical of the media, as many of you are. But recently it’s jumped the proverbial shark
• Trump orders federal agencies to list all criminal regulatory offenses
• The House GOP is trying to appease fiscal hawks, Medicaid defenders, and tax cut advocates
• The Last Line of Defense: The Courts vs. Trump
• Democrats Won a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat. But They Lost Control Over the Board That Sets Election Rules.
• Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns
• Kamala Harrisâs ultimate political failure
• Blackout in Spain and Portugal, Canada and Australia Elections, and a New Pope Elected
• Paul Waldman: Justice Sotomayor's questions in gun case are predictable. Does she really want to know what the remedy would be if the government confiscates everyone's gun?
• The Department of Justice's "Longstanding" General Practice of Intracircuit Nonacquiescence
• I expect this case to be restored to the docket with argument in the fall
• Are Neocons Losing ‘Antisemite’ As a Blanket Smear?
• Elbridge Colby is Right: Europe Should Focus on Europe
• It’s Time for America to Walk Away Completely From Ukraine–Russia
• No More GOP Tax-Hike Talk! Silence Is Golden. - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Who's Afraid of Christian Nationalism? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• A new poll shows that Democrats are more pessimistic about the future of their party than Republicans are
• Hillary Accepted Foreign Gifts - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Verizon Ends Diversity Initiatives Under Pressure From FCC
• Democrats are blocking the confirmation of Trump’s nominee for Ambassador to the Holy See
• President outlines the Trump Doctrine: Prosperity equals peace — for the entire world
• A federal takeover of Rikers Island jails is long overdue — and shouldn’t be delayed
• Billionaire Hansjorg Wyss accused of sexually harassing former winery employee
• Qatar “Gifts” Trump a $400 Million Luxury Jet
• A Christian Nationalist TheoBro church is coming to DC
• Democrats are delusional to blame Biden for their election mess
• "Congress kills poor kids in Gaza": Ben & Jerry's co-founder arrested after Senate hearing protest
• After weeks of breathless predictions of a U.S. recession, the data are in
• Brett Kavanaugh Just Gave a Gratuitous Win to Cops Who Kill
• Trump asks the Supreme Court for a ‘catch me if you can’ system of justice
• The week in whoppers: Publisher pretends NY Times is unbiased, Nancy Pelosi distorts GOP’s Medicaid plan and more