Zaid Jilani

<em>The Intercept</em> asked Republican lawmakers at a religious liberty press conference to respond to Ted Cruz’s proposal for police to specifically target Muslim communities.

Kentucky Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth offered full support for Bernie Sanders’s position on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

A question about Donald Trump potentially wielding power over eavesdropping capabilities evoked nervous laughter and a careful answer from the agency’s recently installed director of privacy and civil liberties.

Far away from AIPAC, Bernie Sanders made a dissenting speech in Salt Lake City, where he spoke up for suffering Palestinians. It received little broadcast media attention.

While AIPAC has rolled out the red carpet for the GOP frontrunner, it has moved to block activists from attending the conference and shut down planned protests.

Lawmakers this week hosted business groups seeking to reframe the BDS movement to boycott Israeli-owned companies as a threat to the American economy.

Cruz’s team, full of conspiracy theorists and arch-neoconservatives, belies the argument that he is a moderate compared to Trump.

Pam Bondi’s bigger favor to Trump may have been her 2013 decision not to investigate Trump’s for-profit education chain after he made a big donation to her reelection campaign.

The Reagan White House even laughed off questions about the epidemic as it was spreading across the United States.

Trump says his own history of buying influence with politicians better positions him to take on systemic corruption than having been on the receiving end.