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One new high-ranking staffer at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is now resigning from his role just weeks after his hire was announced.On January 16, the Kennedy Center announced that Kevin Couch would be the new senior vice president of artistic programming at the vaunted institution. The Kennedy Center also announced Couch's new role on its official X account on January 22. However, the Washington Post reported Wednesday that Couch submitted his resignation less than a week later. While Couch confirmed his resignation to the Post on Wednesday, h

The Guardian reports it was largely the work of a hyper-conservative group of Mormon women who derailed Republican efforts to gerrymander a new Republican district in Utah this year.The Pew Research Center reveals that Mormons, also known as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were among Trump’s strongest supporters in 2016, with about 61 percent of church members backing him, making the group

In 2024, Latino voters were a key bloc of the MAGA coalition that put President Donald Trump back in the White House. Now, Latino voters are fleeing the Republican Party en masse, which may spell serious trouble for the GOP in future elections.That's according to a Wednesday analysis by MS NOW columnist Ja'han Jones, who wrote that several prominent Republicans who represent Latino communities are trying to sound the alarm about their party's electoral dilemma, but with mixed results. As Jones explained, Florida Republican state senator Ileana Garcia – who founded Latinas for Trump — warned that Republicans were poised to "lose the m

Home Depot in Georgia announced it is eliminating about 800 corporate jobs in Cobb County, which could prove a problem for President Donald Trump’s plans for the state in upcoming midterm and the subsequent national elections.The company announced its cuts primarily due to “a slow housing market and increased consumer uncertainty,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Former Trump Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor said he is furious that ‘wannabe school shooters’ in high positions in the administration of President Donald Trump are hijacking government social media and demeaning “decent” employees who work for the federal government.The New York Times reported on Tuesday that high-ranking Trump officials have posted on social media references to “neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing and QAnon conspiracies.” They’ve also “

The core basis of the MAGA movement's ideology has effectively been debunked, according to one journalist who has been covering President Donald Trump's crackdown in Minneapolis.The Atlantic's Adam Serwer claimed earlier this week that "Minnesota proved MAGA wrong" in the wake of the Trump administration's "Operation Metro Surge" this month. In a Wednesday interview, Serwer told the Bulwark's Tim Miller: ""The right has a social theory that multiracial, multi-faith communities cannot be 'cohesive,' that our chao

The Hill reports The Supreme Court has scheduled President Donald Trump’s petition seeking review of the jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll.The court’s conservative majority blew off Carroll’s recent request opposing Trump’s motion to overturn a verdict that ordered Trump to pay Carroll $88.3 million in damages. That amount, in turn, stems from a $5 million judgment handed down in 2023 for sexual abuse, plus a

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner tells the Washington Monthly that there’s plenty of evidence to put before a grand jury regarding the Minneapolis killings.“Despite the limited information available, the video is very damning. And the apparent cover-up by the feds cannot erase that video,” said Krasner, who was impeached by the Republican-controlled Pennsy

A federal judge has ordered the Polk County Jail to immediately release an asylum seeker, ruling that the Russian immigrant was illegally detained through a “legal fiction” constructed by the federal government.Since July 2025, immigration courts around the nation have been denying bond hearings for people detained in county jails by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The denials are based on the Trump administration’s newly adopted legal theory that longstanding federal laws require that ICE detainees who are at risk of being deported be held in jail without the possibility of bond.A

One Jesuit priest is describing President Donald Trump's second term as "psychologically exhausting," and is calling on American voters and institutions to unite against him.In a Wednesday essay for Religion News Service (RNS), the Rev. Thomas J. Reese – who has been an ordained priest since 1974 – argued that Trump is "destroying the United States" and "has poisoned our political culture." He lamented that the president's "inflaming of partisanship has made a calm discussion of politics impossible, even among friends and neighbors."Reese then delved into how Trump has spent his time in office "enriching himself, his family and his cronies while president,