According to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey, 61% of U.S. adults say they’ve heard of the term “cancel culture,” up from 44% in 2020, the first time the Center began asking about the term. But it seems that the more people are exposed to it, the less they seem to agree on its meaning.…

The debate over gun reform escalated once again following the deadly school shooting in Nashville on March 27, much as it did after mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York. What made this situation somewhat different is that the Nashville shooter was a female at birth who identified with male pronouns in social media…

Twitter’s head of Trust and Safety, Ella Irwin, announced on Wednesday, March 29, that the company has taken down more than 5,000 tweets and retweets containing a poster promoting a “Trans Day of Vengeance” event planned for Saturday, April 1, outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The poster said “stop trans genocide.” “We do not support…

A study out of George Mason University in collaboration with the nonprofit Starts with Us found “hyper-partisan politicians” received 4 times the press coverage than their bipartisan colleagues did during the 2022 midterm election cycle. A prominent example involved Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Don Bacon (R-NE). The researchers deemed Rep. Greene “hyper-partisan” and…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) drew backlash from both Democrats and Republicans after calling for a “national divorce” and suggesting conservatives need their own “safe space.” Greene, who has been talking up the idea of a “national divorce” since 2021, elaborated that she would like to see a “legal agreement to separate our ideological and…

The political divide in the United States continues to widen. A recent poll indicates more than a third of Americans would be interested in seeing their state secede. Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threw more gas on the fire with her recent comments calling for the country to be split into red and blue…

While Nikki Haley’s decision to become the first Republican to challenge Donald Trump in 2024 was considered a bold move, it didn’t get the reception she sought. The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board said there was “no clear rationale” for her presidential bid. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and an ex-Cabinet official under…

Republican lawmakers heckled President Biden during his State of the Union address after he accused some GOP members of wanting to target entitlement programs for spending cuts during debt ceiling negotiations. Biden seemed to be referring, in part, to a proposal introduced by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) that would require Congress to renew Social Security…

The GOP booted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) off the House Foreign Relations committee last week, citing controversial comments she’d made in the past about Israel. Back in 2019, the Somali-born Democrat tweeted about the outsized influence pro-Israel lobbying groups had on U.S. politics. Two days earlier, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) removed two California Democrats,…

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is calling out Republicans who question whether the U.S. should continue providing financial and military aid to Ukraine. Graham’s statement came as President Biden announced the U.S. will send the country 31 Abrams tanks to help defeat Russia. “So this idea that we can’t help Ukraine because we got a broken…