NYT: Trump Tried Yet Again to Dump Robert Mueller Last Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump can’t seem to get it through his head that the Justice Department is not his personal legal firm. The New York Times reports that last year, after Trump forced the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, he called Matthew Whitaker, his interim attorney…
Yet Another Trumpie Is In Trouble For Being Honest
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Oh dear: President Trump has grown increasingly disenchanted with Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, who has served as the nation’s top intelligence official for nearly two years, leading some administration officials to worry he will soon be dismissed, according to people familiar with the…
Top Trump Advisers Are Still Plotting a Dubious Nuclear Deal With the Saudis, Lawmakers Warn
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on March 20, 2018. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top advisers to President Donald Trump plotted to orchestrate a major US national security move—the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia—and…
Do You Believe in Climate Change? Really?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Dave Roberts says that centrists who say they prefer a “market-based” carbon tax to other, more regulatory climate change policies, are just trying to con everyone. The problem is not that a carbon tax wouldn’t work. The problem is that it would work only if…
Teachers in West Virginia Went on Strike Again—and Earned a Huge Victory Within Hours
Teachers and school personnel celebrate after the House of Delegates postpone a vote on Senate Bill 451 indefinitely at the state Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, during a statewide teachers’ strike.Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday night, West Virginia teachers’ unions called for a statewide strike.…
Curious How Bernie Sanders Went From ’60s Radical to Democratic Front-Runner? Read On.
Donna Light/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bernie Sanders launched his second bid for president with about as much pomp as he did his first one. In other words, not much. In April 2015, Sanders announced his candidacy via Twitter then walked outside his Capitol Hill office and held…