While America Sleeps: Trump’s Treachery and the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Listen to David discuss the president’s cover-up of the Russia scandal on the Mother Jones Podcast. In 1938, Winston Churchill published a collection of his speeches warning that his homeland was not…
Trump Says White Supremacist Terror Is Fake News. These Chilling Cases Prove Otherwise.
Suspects in custody in Portland, OR, and Orange County, CABeth Nakamura/The Oregonian/AP; Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four days after a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President…
Researchers Find a Link Between Trump Voters and Opioid Use
Stuart Ritchie/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A study published on Friday by scientists at the University of Texas and the University of Toronto points to a connection between Trump country and the nation’s opioid crisis. The report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, gathered data at…
The Justice Department’s Watchdog Is Investigating the FBI’s “Culture” of Leaks
Former FBI director James ComeyJose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI leaked like a sieve in 2016, and those disclosures helped Donald Trump, according to a newly released inspector general’s report on former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The 500-page report from…
Trump Uses the Comey Report to Cover Up His Guilt in the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump and James Comey in January 2017Andrew Harrer/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Even before the Justice Department inspector general’s report on former FBI director James Comey was released on Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump initiated the inevitable tweet storm, hoping to use this development as yet another…
Top Hill Democrat Says Mueller Should Consider Perjury Charges Against Trump-Russia Witnesses
Robert MuellerJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, made a dramatic request: He essentially asked special counsel Robert Mueller to consider whether perjury charges should be brought against witnesses who testified to the committee…