A Quick Look at the Democratic Tax Plans
Gabriel Zucman has analyzed the tax implications of the plans set forth by three of the Democratic candidates and has come up with this: No surprises here: Warren and Sanders want to soak the rich but Biden doesn’t. Still, it’s interesting to see the details. This reminds me that I’m still sort of surprised that…
Congress Prepares to Unload on Trump’s Disastrous Syria Policy
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty When President Donald Trump announced his decision to permit a Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria last week, outraged lawmakers were on recess and left with little recourse to register their concerns about the fate of the Kurds outside of Twitter and the Sunday news shows. Now they are assembling back in Washington for…
No, Secularists Are Not Ruining America
Pema Levy reports that our fearless attorney general is unhappy with the state of America: In his address Friday, Barr thundered against what he described as a “moral upheaval.” “Virtually every measure of social pathology continues to gain ground,” he said. “Along with the wreckage of the family we are seeing record levels of depression…
Impeachment Liveblog: Former Trump Aide on Russia and Ukraine Testifies
Mother Jones illustration; Getty, Drew Angerer/Getty President Donald Trump’s former top adviser on all things Ukraine and Russia is testifying before House investigators today. Fiona Hill, who resigned from her post just days before the now-infamous July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, will reportedly tell lawmakers that Rudy Giuliani and…
A Gruesome Video Depicting Trump Murdering Journalists, Political Opponents Was Shown at His Resort
A gruesome video depicting President Donald Trump shooting and slaying members of the media, as well as his political opponents, was played at a pro-Trump political gathering hosted at a Florida resort owned by the president this weekend. Scenes from the video, which parodies the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, shows a fake Trump…
Columbus Day Is Dying. Indigenous Peoples Day Is the Future.
A statue of Christopher Columbus in Mishawaka, Indiana, defaced during the week of Columbus Day in 2017.Robert Franklin/AP “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”—and in 2019, a growing number of US cities and states are recognizing that the cutesy rhyme we learned in school, and the federal holiday named in the explorer’s honor, belies a dark…