Fiscal conservatives have been sounding the alarm about endemic federal deficits for years, but many also support the $95 billion supplemental foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan now before Congress. Can supplemental military spending be reconciled with budget balancing?

Reprinted with permission from Responsible Statecraft. The U.S. and Israel have been raising the alarm of a possible Iranian retaliatory strike in response to last week’s Israeli attack on an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus. The president once again pledged

A gay MAGA Republican was clearly surprised by a reporter who asked why she did not appear to be paying her campaign staff, as she reportedly responded to the inquiry by hanging up the phone.Alison Esposito is running for

A Polish Catholic priest has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after an investigation into an August 30, 2023, gay adult play party in the priest’s apartment. At the party, a male sex worker collapsed after overdosing on erectile

Can a photo of a same-sex couple holding hands be considered as harmful to minors? A Kansas bill just might.Sold as a way to protect minors on the internet, this bill seeks to require age verification on sites where more

Far-right Republican Rep. Gino Bulso held up a bill in the Tennessee legislature on Thursday that would have outlawed first cousin marriage with a surprising argument: if gay first cousins can get married, why not straight ones?“Is there a public

As LGBTQ+ couples increasingly build families, many parents are finding themselves confronted with a question heterosexual couples rarely have to consider: What should our children call us?For some LGBTQ+ couples, it can be as simple as “mommy” and “mama” or

A new study published in the Social Science Research Network [SSRN] found that job applicants using they/them pronouns are less likely to be hired.The study’s author, University of Toronto Ph.D. candidate Taryn Eames, states it is “the first large-scale correspondence

Fox News primetime host Jesse Watters paraded his ignorance proudly last weekend as he cluelessly pontificated about gender dysphoria, gender reassignment surgery and childhood sexuality, all while promoting a conspiracy theory that doctors are eager to get kids’ genitals “chopped

Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email.GLSEN’s “Day of Silence” has become an annual tradition in the LGBTQ+

After recent rants opposing a transgender-inclusive hate crime law and implying that trans people are criminals who don’t need legal protections, billionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling recently published a 709-word social media post explaining her anti-trans views and what

In Wisconsin, at one of Donald Trump’s recent presidential campaign stops – infrequent since he spends much of his time defending himself in several criminal and civil court cases – he lambasted President Joe Biden for issuing a White House proclamation on

Following the death this week of O.J. Simpson, the British tabloid The Daily Mail suggested that the former NFL player’s well-documented history of violence could be chalked up in part to his “drag queen father.”Simpson’s family announced Wednesday that the

After a high-speed car chase, Louisiana police arrested 33-year-old Marcus Johnson, a former Jackson Police Department (JPD) officer from Mississippi, on Wednesday evening. Johnson allegedly used a gun and axe to kill his ex-boyfriend, 25-year-old nurse Carlos Collins.Collins was murdered