Are women too weak for real life?

Between 1972 and 2016, twelve different people -- George McGovern, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry, John McCain and Mitt Romney -- ran for president of the United States as a major-party nominee and lost. We can safely assume that it hurt like all hell for every last one of them -- especially the few of them who lost in a landslide.

Local experts say US may be using the idea as leverage to press China on NK sanctions

Despite repeated rebuttals from the South Korean government, talk of bringing US tactical nuclear weapons here continues to grow, with signs of Washington warming to the idea amid North Korea's persistent nuclear and missile threats. But experts here are still cautious, questioning whether the US would really have the intention to redeploy tactical nukes on the Korean Peninsula, risking sparking military tensions in Northeast Asia, and potentially, a regional nuclear arms race.

UN approves watered-down new sanctions against North Korea

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea in a watered-down resolution without an oil import ban or international asset freeze on the government and leader Kim Jong Un that the... The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea in a watered-down resolution without an oil import ban or international asset freeze on the government and leader Kim Jong Un that the Trump administration wanted. Sen. John McCain says the U.S. needs to step up actions against North Korea and send a message to leader Kim Jong Un that aggressive acts will lead to his country's destruction.

Calling the intellectual right

The current state of conservatism is bleak. With Donald Trump dragging the GOP into an abyss bearing the lowest approval numbers a president has had in any first year, a series of racist attacks in the name of conservatism, and cable news going the way of MSNBC, there appears to be a political natural disaster ready to take a final blow at the Republicans; and it's Typhoon Trump.

Trump ducked a tough decision on DACA, but he’s solved nothing

Activists from RefuseFascism.org project anti-Trump administration messages onto the side of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, where many undocumented people are jailed, on Tuesday. At President Donald Trump's rallies, he's usually flanked by a pair of big blue placards displaying his administration's proudest boast.

GOP launches ad calling on Menendez to resign if convicted

WASHINGTON -- As U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez prepares to stand trial this week on federal corruption charges , the Republican National Committee on Tuesday launched an online ad campaign to force him out immediately if convicted. The goal is to allow Gov. Chris Christie , a Republican, to fill the seat until the 2018 election, giving the GOP a 53rd vote in a 100-member chamber.

David Brooks Blames Al Gore For GOP Climate Change Denial

How can America's Most Ubiquitous Conservative Public Intellectual possibly explain how his Republican Party's position on climate change went from this -- Was it perhaps due to the concerted effort and billions of dollars spent by the moguls of oil and coal to set up a vast web of climate denial front groups and think tanks? To buy political campaigns? To underwrite right wing hacks on radio and teevee? DAVID BROOKS: Climate change, in the way it wasn't 20 years ago, it's a total partisan issue now. DAVID BROOKS: I happen to think he had some positive effects with the movement.

North Korea, Afghanistan top Hill’s fall national security agenda

The Senate returns to Washington in September preparing to take up a massive defense policy bill led by Sen. John McCain as the Arizona Republican returns to Congress following his first round of treatment for brain cancer. The chairman of the Senate armed services committee, McCain will lead debate on the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the few remaining "must-pass" pieces of legislation that would authorize $700 billion in Pentagon spending and set a wide swath of military policy.

Russian online bots step up influence bid

After the 2016 U.S. presidential race was subject to Russian cyber meddling, analysts say the ferocity of more recent assaults is a preview of what could be coming in the 2018 elections, when Republicans will be defending their control of both chambers of Congress. "They haven't stood still since 2016," said Ben Nimmo, a senior fellow in information defense at the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council in Washington, which tracked the activity.

Russia-linked bots hone online attack plans for 2018 U.S. vote – Sat, 02 Sep 2017 PST

After violent protests rocked Charlottesville, Va., last month, Republican Sen. John McCain took to Twitter to condemn hatred and bigotry and urge President Donald Trump to speak out more forcefully. Within hours, an online campaign attacking McCain - a frequent Trump critic - began circulating, amplified with the help of automated and human-coordinated networks known as bots and cyborgs linking to blogs on "Traitor McCain" and the hashtag #ExplainMcCain.