Anti-vaccine rhetoric does irreversible harm

The median unvaccinated Republican believes the vaccines have effectively zero efficacy in preventing hospitalizations. This is not the case with unvaccinated Democrats.

Former Republican consultant Matthew Sheffield on Monday pointed to new polling data on the COVID-19 vaccine from Pew Research showing that Republican voters are almost singlehandedly keeping America from ending the COVID-19 pandemic.Overall, the poll shows that just 60 percent of Republican or Repu...

The latest development on the rift between two of the worst people in the world.

With the Republican about-face concerning Supreme Court Senate votes, hypocrisy is once again back in the headlines. Many accusations of hypocrisy have been directed at Senator Lindsey Graham, whose support for a Senate vote for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee so clearly clashes with earlier statements — he said in 2018 that “if an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term and the primary process has started, we’ll wait till the next election” — that his behavior seems like the Platonic form of a certain kind of hypocrisy.

Rep. Mo Brooks may be done with Jan. 6, but Jan. 6 isn’t done with him. The Alabama representative, notorious for his speaking role at the Jan. 6 rally leading up to the invasion of the Capitol, did not watch Tuesday’s first hearing of the House select committee investigating said invasion.

A secretly taped video showed Texas Rep. Chip Roy saying he wanted to prevent Democrats from getting anything done so the GOP could win back Congress.

Leaders in Maricopa County, Ariz., are hitting back at Donald J. Trump and fellow party members in the State Senate over a review of the county’s ballots.

Republicans say Liz Cheney, their No. 3, is being targeted because she won’t stay quiet about Donald J. Trump’s election lies. Her would-be replacement is campaigning on them.

Individuals who self-identify as Republicans became more skeptical of a potential COVID-19 vaccine and other inoculations, such as the flu shot, over the course of the pandemic, reveals a new study by the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management.

Last August, Missouri voters ignored the state’s Republican leadership and voted by referendum to approve Medicaid expansion, the sixth Republican-controlled state to do so. Now, Republicans appear out for revenge. On Thursday, the House Budget Committee rejected a bill that would have allowed the state “to spend $130 million in state funds and $1.6 billion in federal money to pay for the program’s expansion,” the Kansas City Star reported.

A simple formula, or what we might call a neat magic trick, allows Republican Party leaders to retain the support of their "base" even as they enact policies that hurt their own voters. Two competing storylines highlight exactly how this is playing out right now.

President Joe Biden and the Democrats were on the brink of pushing through sprawling legislation with an eyepopping, $1.9 trillion price tag. But many Republican politicians and conservative commentators had other priorities in recent days. A passionate defense of Dr. Seuss. Serious questions about the future of Mr. Potato Head. Intense scrutiny of Meghan Markle.

In the wake of their 2020 losses at the federal level, the Republicans are turning to a decentralised, state-based strategy to win back power. It's going unnoticed by most Democratic voters, writes Emily Olson.

Rush Limbaugh, the talk titan who made right-wing radio financially viable in American media and himself a Republican kingmaker years before Fox News, died Wednesday after he revealed in 2020 that his lung cancer was terminal. He was 70. His death was confirmed by his wife, Kathryn, at the beginning of Limbaugh's radio show, from which he's been absent for almost two weeks.

The Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump in a 57-43 vote on the charge of inciting insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, which left 5 people dead including a police officer.

The Republican Party still belongs to Donald Trump. After he incited a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last month, the GOP considered purging the norm-shattering former president. But in the end, only seven of 50 Senate Republicans voted to convict Trump in his historic second impeachment trial on Saturday.

The Republican Party was on trial along with Donald Trump. Both now stand convicted, if not by the Senate, then definitely in the eyes of the nation and the world.

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace appears to have shifted her own account to cast doubt on the trauma of her colleague

Donald Trump was “loving watching the Capitol mob” lay siege to the heart of American democracy on TV on 6 January, an ex-White House aide has told CNN on the day the historic second impeachment trial of the 45th president is due to get underway in the Senate.