The votes still aren't counted, but when it's all over, we'll still be in a country at war with itself over which half of the country gets to boss around the other half. Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the failure of the pollsters, the imaginary Blue Wave, and the end of naive democracy.
A three-day, head-spinning fiesta of extra-base hits
In 2019, the Washington Nationals did something cool. No, not win the World Series. Well, yeah, they did do that. But someone does that every year. I’m talking about something really outrageous, something they did in three straight games that barely anyone has ever done in two. See ever since 1994, big league teams have for the most part recorded around three extra-base hits per game:
The tricycle of Senate evil consists of three wheels: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Trump’s whipping boy Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).
A senior Republican official told New York Magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is expected to “scream and shout for a while” before eventually conceding the race to Joe Biden. “A senior Republican official tells me they’ve accepted that a Trump victory is becoming less and less possible,” Nuzzi wrote on […]
In a year like no other, an election like no other, in a haze of disinformation and bogus claims, ‘This Matters’ parses through the facts of the U.S. election. Edward Keenan, Toronto Star’s Washington bureau chief, joins Adrian Cheung to break down what we know after election night, what we’re still waiting to find out, the fallibility of the polls, and what Canadians should make of an election they have no hand in.
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has amended its travel quarantine list immediately to include those who have traveled to South Dakota and the countries of Belgium and Czechia. North Dakota and the country of Andorra remain on the list as does attendance at out-of-state mass gatherings with 500 or more where individuals who do [...]
Anthony "Harv" Ellison, a Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods member, was found guilty last year of orchestrating the gunpoint kidnapping and robbery of the rapper.
BREXIT negotiations could run for another two weeks as progress continues slowly. Michel Barnier said “very serious divergencies remain” between the EU and UK negotiators. The problematic areas are still fishing and state aid. It has been two weeks since talks resumed after coming close to a breakthrough. A UK Government spokesman said: “Our position on […]
The 2020s will bring ‘creative destruction’ that pits boomers against millennials and challenges what it means to be an American, says a scholar of demographic trends.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is projected to win reelection Wednesday, beating Democratic challenger Christina Finello to continue representing Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District. The district includes Bucks County and other parts...