Raw Data: Women in Songwriting
I don’t know squat about modern music, so I was a little surprised to see the latest stats on the number of women who write popular music. In short, there are hardly any: The figures for 2019 are worse for producers (5 percent female) but a bit better for performers (22.5 percent female). There’s more…
Trump Taunts Democrats: “We Have All the Material. They Don’t Have the Material.”
Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty President Donald Trump is thousands of miles away from Washington right now, but that hasn’t stopped him from chiming in on the historic impeachment trial currently underway in the Senate. “We’re doing very well,” he told reporters before leaving the World Economic Forum in Davos, later adding, “Honestly, we have all the material.…
McConnell’s Goal: Keep the Impeachment Trial Short and Boring
Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Jonathan Chait says that Republicans screwed up by refusing en masse to allow the introduction of new evidence into President Trump’s impeachment trial: The victory is Pyrrhic. Given that a vote to remove is almost inconceivable — Trump could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and all that — the trial is…
Here Are Some of the Ukraine Documents Republicans Voted to Ignore
President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Evan Vucci/AP Late on Tuesday night, a watchdog group released a trove of documents from the White House Office of Management and Budget related to President Donald Trump’s hold on military aid to Ukraine. The disclosure of the material, obtained by the nonprofit American Oversight, came just…
GOP Senators Representing a Minority of Americans Are Preventing a Fair Impeachment Trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 10, 2019. J. Scott Applewhite/AP On Tuesday, senators representing 153 million Americans outvoted senators representing 168 million Americans. A majority of the US public supports President…
Fox News Really Doesn’t Want You to Tune Into Trump’s Impeachment Trial
At around 2 a.m. ET, after voting down all 11 Democratic amendments that would have permitted new documents and witness testimony into the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally adjourned the chamber for the evening. It had been an excruciating, marathon day, one that appeared to fit into…