The Michigan House seat previously occupied by longtime Congressman John Conyers, who retired last year amid sexual harassment allegations, is likely to go to former state Rep. Rashida Tlaib. There are no Republicans running against Tlaib in the District 13 House race, meaning that she is poised to become the first…
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who is facing a criminal invasion of privacy charge and is the subject of an intensifying Republican-led state House investigation, was accused by a woman under oath of sexual coercion and physical violence, according to a report released by a state House committee.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that a St. Louis grand jury indicted Missouri’s first-term Republican Governor Eric Greitens on a felony invasion of privacy charge.
On first pass, there is nothing wrong with this Corgi perched atop a pony, trotting into the night like a dragoon riding off to battle. It’s cute, it’s unexpected, all of its ingredients are perfectly calibrated to make the internet scream into its clasped hands. But something is off about this video, and I need to…
The Satanic Temple has been battling some of Missouri’s strict abortion laws as an imposition on religious freedom, by way of a lawsuit on behalf of a woman identified as Mary Doe. It seems like it might actually work.
Missouri State Representative Warren Love is backpedaling after he posted, then deleted, a horribly offensive Facebook post in which he said that he hoped those vandalizing Confederate statue be lynched to death. This comes, of course, weeks after neo-Nazis descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia to defend…
Missouri is the place to go for obviously batshit abortion legislature, but it’s also a place where more seemingly moderate provisions have success. On Tuesday, SB5 passed through the Missouri Senate, and it is expected to be signed into law by Governor Eric Greitens. Once in place, SB5 will make getting an abortion…
Missouri State Rep. Mike Moon is a politician who has compared abortion to the Holocaust, proposed adding an exhibit on abortion tools next to the slavery exhibit in Missouri’s State Museum, and filed legislation to give an embryo the rights of a person. On Monday, Moon pulled another gross stunt in the name of the…
If there is one positive result of the Trump presidency, it’s that, along with our president, America has been forced to take a nationwide crash course on how government works. (We’re all learning!) Loosely defined sanctuary policies have created several power struggles amongst liberal cities which want to make their…
Can you imagine hating something so much that you think, our only option is to involve the zoo animals? I understand that zoo animals don’t care about politics because they don’t understand them. I also can infer that they wouldn’t care even if they could understand them, because zoo animals are prisoners without…
In 2014, the state of Missouri passed a 72-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions. The waiting period, which makes no exceptions for rape or incest victims, is one of the most restrictive in the nation and is particularly difficult for poor and working women to navigate. There is only one abortion clinic in…
On August 9, 2014—two and a half years ago—Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old resident of Ferguson, Missouri, was gunned down by white police officer Darren Wilson. His death reignited a national outcry against the United States’ legacy of police brutality and the racism that structures our criminal justice system.…
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Today, in a wave of anti-Semitic violence, dozens of headstones at a Jewish cemetery were vandalized while Jewish Community Centers across the country received bomb threats.
About 18 months ago, Lindenwood University student Michael L. Johnson was convicted of the Class A felony of “recklessly exposing another person to HIV,” which in Missouri carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. The conviction raised an outcry amongst LGBT and human rights advocates—and now it’s been…
Abortion rights activists have filed lawsuits in Alaska, Missouri and North Carolina Wednesday in a challenge to laws that impose strict restrictions on the constitutional right to have an abortion.
A Missouri woman who will soon be sworn in as a state representative is accusing another incoming state rep of rape. Cora Faith Walker wrote a letter to the state’s Speaker of the House, asking that the man she says raped her, Steven Roberts Jr., not be allowed to serve until the police investigation is complete.…
A 14-year-old African American boy is in critical, but stable, condition after being shot by police on Sunday morning in St. Louis, Missouri.
Missouri has crowned its first openly gay pageant contestant, 23-year-old Erin O’Flaherty.
Last year, Sophia Vergara’s former fiancé, Nick Loeb, garnered media attention (including a controversial opinion piece in the New York Times) when he sued the actress over two embryos the couple had fertilized during their relationship. The lawsuit, which was not particularly unusual, but notable because it involved…
