AuthorTana Ganeva

The long-anticipated first debate of the presidential election did not exactly get rave reviews. As the New York Times pointed out, in our deeply polarized political times, Americans were in rare agreement that the debate was truly awful. It seems as if the only group pleased with the candidates’ performance was the right-wing extremist group Proud Boys, who exulted in the president’s...

Immigrant women in a detention facility in Georgia were subjected to invasive unnecessary procedures without their full understanding or consent, the New York Times reported Tuesday. That detention center happens to be run by a private prison company with a troubling record of alleged mismanagement and abuse. The story builds on a complaint filed by the Atlanta-based nonprofit Project South...

The first presidential debate of the 2020 election is set to take place in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday night. Donald Trump is driven to win the key swing state and has held dozens of rallies and campaign events across the state. Last Monday, Trump held two rallies at private airfields outside Dayton and Toledo. The Dayton event celebrated “the American Worker,” while the Toledo rally...

Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he was elected president, according to a blockbuster report published by the New York Times on Sunday. The Times report also found that Trump is millions of dollars in debt, incurred through a series of failed business ventures — a fact that runs counter to Trump’s self-made image as a successful businessman. Trump has also used...

The day after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Donald Trump pledged to nominate a female jurist to the Supreme Court. “It will be a woman,” he said at an airport rally in North Carolina. On Saturday, Trump announced he was nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a 48-year-old Catholic judge serving on the 7th Circuit. Barrett belongs to a religious sect that believes husbands should dominate...