As it turns out, neuroscience might be able to explain why. In a new study whose findings will surprise absolutely no one who's endured a fiery holiday dinner debate, researchers discovered that conservative and liberal brains don't just arrive at fundamentally different conclusions, but take strikingly different paths to get there. It's a fascinating piece of research which just might explain something about the yawning political divides currently tearing society apart.
After US troops swarmed into Venezuela, seizing the country's president and his wife, there was little to be heard from the Pentagon. Typically, it would be a time for defense officials to talk to the Pentagon press corps: a group of journalists made up of some of the most talented reporters in the US. The Pentagon could have been expected to be held to account over what has been criticized as a violation of international law. Under the Trump administration, that didn't happen.
Donald Trump's allegedly ailing health has been the subject of media speculation for months, which analysts have said is interrupting the president's quest to be seen as an unflinching strongman. Salon writer Chauncey DeVega suggested in a recent column that Trump's invasion of Venezuela was a "prime opportunity" for the president to "get his swagger back." But the problem, he said, is that Trump can't hide his clear mental and physical decline.
Charlie Kirk believed that gay people should be stoned to death, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake," that we should legally be allowed to whip foreigners in the U.S., that Muslims only move here to destroy the country, that American Jews encourage anti-whiteness, that men should physically attack transgender people, that all women should submit to their husbands, and that Black professionals "steal" their jobs from more qualified white people.
Over a thousand protests have taken place nationwide as part of a "weekend of action" since the shooting by an ICE agent of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. A GoFundMe account, paused as of this writing, has raised over $1.5 million for Good's widow Becca, their son, and Renée's two other children. In San Francisco on January 10, demonstrators gathered at Van Ness Avenue and O'Farrell Street. San Francisco Bay Times columnist Joanie Juster, who took this footage, was among the many participants.
Thousands of people braved the bitter cold on Saturday to come out and make their voices heard, McGuire began. Their message was clear: They want ICE out of the city of Minneapolis, and they are furious over the killing of Renee Good. McGuire said Saturday's protests began at the city's Powderhorn Park, less than a mile from where Good was shot and killed by ICE officer Jonathan Ross.
Some borrowers told me that they achieved student-loan forgiveness or repaid their loans in full. However, the majority of respondents reported a range of concerns about the future of their balances, including worries about losing a key affordable repayment plan, struggling to get help from their servicers, being in default on their loans, and more. Trump's "big beautiful" spending legislation includes the elimination of existing income-driven repayment plans and replacing them with two less generous options.
"Frankly, if Congress doesn't codify it, they'll go into court. My sense [is] it's really difficult to justify tax changes because the president wanted to change them,"
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now. The states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York argued that a policy announced Tuesday to freeze billions of dollars in funds for three grant programs is having an immediate impact on them and creating "operational chaos."
It's somehow only been three months since Trump-supporting billionaire David Ellison named the reactionary centrist Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News, and she is making quick work of destroying the network's credibility. Most people have heard about Weiss's last-minute intervention to hold a 60 Minutes segment that interviewed people whom the Trump administration deported to a prison in El Salvador known as CECOT without so much as a court hearing.
State of play: Democratic attorneys general fromthefivestates - California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York - filed a lawsuit against the administration just one day prior. The Department of Health and Human Services officials claimed cutting off funding was necessary due to systemic fraud in the child care system. Yes, but: The suit, filed Thursday evening in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that the freeze was triggered by viral misinformation, political rhetoric and public threats from Trump and top officials, not by fraud findings.
