Andy McKean was elected to the Iowa legislature in 1978 when he was in his late 20s. He has served in both the state House and Senate. For most of his career, he was comfortable with his Republican party affiliation. But now, he’s switching teams. “I believe that it is just a matter of time …

Washington state is one of seventeen states that allows for non-medical exemptions to vaccine mandates along personal or philosophical grounds––but not anymore. The state has just outlawed such exemptions, though it continues to allow medical or religious exemptions for vaccines. Washington has experienced 70 cases of measles this year, meaning it accounts for nearly ten …

Three states––George, Ohio, and Alabama––have drawn criticism for their challenges to Roe v Wade. On Tuesday, Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed into a law a bill that prohibits abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, effectively banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy except in the case of rape, incest, or when the …

Nancy Pelosi has said that we are currently in a constitutional crisis, precipitated by William Barr’s refusal to appear before a House committee and Trump’s order for his people to disregard all subpoenas. Pelosi statement was in support of Representative Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who initially said earlier this week that …

The number of Americans who feel that Donald Trump should be impeached rose five percent since mid-April, meaning that nearly half of the country––forty-five percent––want the president out. Only forty-two percent of Americans think that Trump should not be impeached. The Reuters/Ipsos poll also indicates that the majority of the country thinks that the multiple …

President Donald Trump has invoked his executive privilege in an effort to block the full and unredacted Mueller report from Congress. Justice Department official Stephen E. Boyd wrote, “This is to advise you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials.” Boyd was referring not only to the report, …

Between 1985 and 1994, Donald Trump’s businesses lost over a billion dollars. But does that make him a loser, or a genius? Those blinded by their Trump-hate assume the former. Vanity Fair has called Trump one of the “biggest losers” in America. He lost more money in that ten year period than almost every other …

Over 400 former federal prosecutors, both Democrats and Republicans, have signed a letter saying that any other person would be charged with obstruction of justice for doing what President Trump did. Over 100 of those who signed had more than 20 years of experience in the justice department. “Each of us believes,” they wrote, “that …

The United States has finally condemned China for imprisoning millions of Uighur, a minority group comprised mostly of Muslims, into concentration camps. Randall Schriver, head of Asian policy at the U.S. Defense Department, made the long-overdue statement. Schriver’s intentional reference to Holocaust concentration camps comes in light of the potentially three-million Uighur held in detention …

The Illinois State Senate passed legislation that will bar President Trump from the 2020 ballot unless Trump releases his tax returns. The bill still needs to make it through the House, which is controlled by Democrats. Then it will need to be approved by the Illinois governor…who is also Democrat. The governor has not yet …

Two Mueller prosecutors have said, in private, that there was sufficient evidence to file federal criminal charges of obstruction of justice against President Trump for his attempts to halt or subvert Mueller’s investigation. It was only Trump’s status as president that stopped the Mueller team from filing such charges. Though they could not charge Trump, …

As more Republicans board the impeachment train, Donald Trump is readying himself for the inevitable. Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that House leader should begin laying groundwork for impeachment. He argues that it is their duty as government leaders, and their failure to do so …