The process for finding a speaker started in early 1968, months before the assassinations of either Martin Luther King Jr. or Robert F. Kennedy. The demure Inouye emerged as the party’s answer to ...

With the general election just over a month away, state Sen. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine, has submitted his resignation from the ...

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has agreed to rule on whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will stay on the ballot after the ...

On Tuesday, Republican Sen. John Kennedy provided a master class on delivering a racist line of questioning—and during a ...

Bombshell revelations of former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr allegedly being involved in a romantic relationship with New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi are hardly a surprise.

Elections, as voters, we must go beyond the charms of political marketing, image consultants, and social media debates.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, about a contentious exchange at a Senate hearing on hate crimes.

Republican Senator John Kennedy attacked Arab American Institute Director Maya Berry with racist rant during her Senate ...

U.S. Sen. John Kennedy played the role of concerned politician with consummate flair when he made his way around southeast ...

The comment from the Senator has been called a direct racist attack. Calls for Kennedy to be censured have been growing since the hearing.

John Kennedy (R-Lousiana) repeatedly made offensive comments that ... Berry calmly capitalized on his offensive statement, ...

Berry says the experience illustrated the very problem of dehumanization the hearing was meant to address. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If ...