https://pjmedia.com/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holder%E2%80%99s-voting-section/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usTue, 30 Jun 2026 10:54:56 -0400<![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on the historic birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, on Tuesday morning.]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:41:00 -0400<![CDATA[Athena Thorne]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2026/06/30/pre-write-scotus-rules-on-landmark-birthright-citizenship-case-n4953858<![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a 6-3 decision that federal limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates violate the First Amendment, delivering a major victory for free speech and party operations and for Republicans. It should have an impact on the 2026 midterm elections.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:37:00 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[First Amendment]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/06/30/breaking-supreme-court-makes-a-big-ruling-in-favoragainst-free-speech-n4954481<![CDATA[I never thought I'd live to see the day that big-city blue-enclave Democrats would slash a local department's budget — and cut it three years in a row. Such a rare event should start your antennae twitching, especially when you learn that it happened in Karen Bass' Los Angeles.]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Green]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]>https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/30/finally-a-budget-democrats-will-cut-the-guy-who-investigates-fraud-n4954516<![CDATA["One of the things that makes the Democratic Party great is it’s a big tent party,” Sen. Cory Booker said at the Texas Democratic Party Convention. He was responding to harsh criticism&nbsp;of the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in the Democratic Party by Sen. John Fetterman.]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:27:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Cory Booker]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[John Fetterman]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/30/democrats-want-to-invite-communists-into-their-big-tent-they-should-talk-with-alexander-kerensky-n4954520<![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to uphold state laws banning biological males from competing on female sports teams, delivering a tremendous victory for female athletes and the commonsense principle that biological sex matters in athletic competition.]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:11:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Title IX]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[West Virginia]]><![CDATA[Women's Sports]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/30/the-supreme-court-just-settled-the-trans-athletes-debate-n4954229<![CDATA[Hello and welcome to Tuesday, June 30. It was always going to be Tuesday. There's nothing to be done about it.]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:54:00 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/06/30/the-singham-story-grand-jury-goldman-and-the-china-money-trail-n4954512<![CDATA[When Barack Obama was first elected president, he had a once-in-a-century opportunity. Despite being a Democrat, he could have used his status as our nation’s first black president to heal wounds, to bridge gaps, and to tear down barriers. His speech four years prior at the 2004 Democratic convention was optimistic, unifying, and, dare I say, post-racial.]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:38:00 -0400<![CDATA[A.J. Christopher]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/06/30/mr-obama-are-the-slaveowners-in-the-room-with-us-right-now-n4954511<![CDATA[Top O' the Briefing]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:47:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/06/29/the-morning-briefing-we-regret-to-inform-you-that-election-integrity-wont-be-returning-n4954505<![CDATA[Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper — yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it's only in Donald Trump's Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:34:25 -0400<![CDATA[Daniel McCarthy]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]>https://pjmedia.com/daniel-mccarthy/2026/06/29/bill-maher-liberalisms-apostate-n4954514<![CDATA[Pakistan's federal budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026-27 has been officially passed by parliament with a total outlay of approximately $67 billion. Defense spending has shown a consistent upward trend, rising steadily over the last five years.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:17:57 -0400<![CDATA[Uzay Bulut]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Pakistan]]>https://pjmedia.com/uzay-bulut/2026/06/29/pakistan-raises-defense-spending-as-millions-of-its-citizens-remain-out-of-school-n4954513<![CDATA[Last week, I told you about California State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-Calif.), one of the most radical lawmakers in America, getting chased out of a far-left rally by his own side for not being radical enough. This came in the wake of the primaries in New York City, where candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America won three races last week, ousting two incumbents who were themselves radical leftists.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:55:23 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[Greg Gutfeld]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/29/gutfeld-explains-why-the-lefts-purity-tests-have-no-finish-line-n4954510<![CDATA[A man who used to change his own water pump knows when ownership has been hollowed out. For decades, Americans could pop the hood, grab tools, call a friend, and keep a car alive for another season.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:04:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/29/trump-just-put-the-american-car-owner-back-in-the-fight-n4954509<![CDATA[I once asked B.F. Skinner, the famed behaviorist known as the father of operant conditioning, “if all of our behavior is based upon either genetics or conditioning, what value should guide intentional conditioning? To what do we aim it?” He answered in one word – survival. As a college student at the time, I thought the answer entirely inadequate. I no longer think so.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:23:38 -0400<![CDATA[David Churchill Barrow]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[First Amendment]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-barrow/2026/06/29/well-ordered-liberty-is-in-accord-with-modern-behavioral-science-n4954501<![CDATA[Peru officially announced that it finally has a new president on Monday: The more conservative candidate, Keiko Fujimori, won by a slim margin of 50.1% to 49.9%. &nbsp;]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:58:01 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[Argentina]]><![CDATA[Cartels]]><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[Colombia]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Javier Milei]]><![CDATA[Nayib Bukele]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[USAID]]><![CDATA[Chile]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/06/29/we-need-to-talk-about-these-latin-american-countries-moving-to-the-right-n4954502<![CDATA[The Colorado Supreme Court just handed Democrats a unanimous beatdown, and it's hard not to enjoy it.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:57:43 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Colorado]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Redistricting]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/29/democrats-just-lost-another-redistricting-battle-and-i-cant-stop-laughing-n4954506<![CDATA[Young Americans finishing school right now have spent most of their lives hearing one steady message from classrooms, screens, major media, entertainment, and politics: America's flaws define it more than its greatness does.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:46:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/29/gallups-new-pride-poll-shows-what-20-years-of-messaging-built-n4954503<![CDATA[As a 37-year comedy veteran, I believe I'm pretty good at "reading the room," and I believe the room, in this case, Western civilization, has turned a corner: we've finally had enough of the Islamic rape and murder epidemics terrorizing mostly white Christian girls and women in the West.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:19:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin Downey Jr.]]>https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2026/06/29/citizen-vigilante-the-film-that-is-opening-eyes-and-terrifying-the-globalists-n4954499<![CDATA[I took the weekend off from the news cycle to focus on fighting a major algae situation in my pool (don't tell any wacko leftists), but I did try to keep up with what's going on in Venezuela, and all weekend my brain kept coming back to one question: Why is Nayib Bukele doing more for the Venezuelan people than the Venezuelan regime is? &nbsp;]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:55:43 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Nayib Bukele]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Venezuela]]><![CDATA[Nicolás Maduro]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/06/29/disaster-in-venezuela-bukele-shines-and-who-wants-to-make-25-million-n4954483<![CDATA[Alan Dershowitz has a famous name, a long resume, and no shortage of ways to answer his critics. Yet his loss at the Supreme Court exposes a problem that reaches far beyond one retired law professor.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:15:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[First Amendment]]><![CDATA[Justice Clarence Thomas]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/29/thomas-wants-the-court-to-face-the-medias-defamation-problem-n4954500<![CDATA[If you’re following any of the news regarding the summer heatwave that’s spread across Western Europe, you’re no doubt aware that the geniuses behind the “climate change” grift are now trying to make air conditioning (A/C) the enemy of mankind.]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:46:33 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[France]]><![CDATA[Germany]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/29/those-euro-air-conditioning-deniers-are-making-this-huge-mistake-n4954498