Key Senator Says Richard Grenell “May Have Misled Congress”
Richard Grenell speaks in Munich on February 14, 2020.Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images Following a 2017 Senate hearing on Richard Grenell’s nomination to be ambassador to Germany, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), submitted some quite specific written questions to the nominee. “I understand that you have written many articles and op-eds over the past eight…
Bloomberg Once Promoted a Plan to House Homeless Families on Cruise Ships
Michael Bloomberg delivering a press briefing in 2002. Nancy Kaszerman/Zuma It was the fall of 2002, early in Michael Bloomberg’s first term as mayor of New York. The billionaire-turned-politician had been struggling all year to address a growing crisis: The Big Apple’s homeless population was skyrocketing to record levels, and the city had run out…
The Truth About Sanders’ Cold War Comments Is Too Complicated for Cable News
Justin Sullivan/Getty This was the week that Bernie Sanders ran smack into a great American myth. That myth is that the United States nobly won the Cold War, which was a black-and-white clash between the forces of good and free enterprise (us) and the forces of evil and communism (them). Sanders’ dabbling in Cold War…
Donald Trump Is Worried About . . . The Stock Market
CDC/Planet Pix via ZUMA Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States on the coronavirus outbreak: Trump is highly concerned about the market and has encouraged aides not to give predictions that might cause further tremors….In a Twitter post, he misspelled the word “coronavirus” as “caronavirus” and wrote that two cable news stations “are…
Only the Fist Bump Can Defeat the Coronavirus
Via Alex Tabarrok, here is today’s news you can use: In these days of coronavirus anxiety, it’s important to greet strangers in the safest way possible. Short of adopting the Japanese bow, it turns out that the fist bump is our best bet. In fact, perhaps we’ll now evolve to new versions of the fist…
The South Carolina Debate Finally Put Bernie Sanders in the Hot Seat
Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden, participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate in Charleston, South Carolina on Tuesday.Patrick Semansky/AP For the past month, Bernie Sanders has ascended to the position of clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. He claimed victory in Iowa, where the contested results leave a…