Trump Says the US Is Ready for War. Not All His Troops Are So Sure.
President Donald Trump joins West Point cadets during the the Army v. Navy American Football game.Afp/Lapresse/ZUMA This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Between the killing…
Bloomberg and Steyer Make Top 10 List of Biggest Super-PAC Donors Ever
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court opened the super-PAC era with its 5-4 ruling in the Citizens United case. While the decision left the limits on donations to politicians in place, it blew open caps on outside spending—money given to groups that campaign for or against candidates without officially being part of their campaigns.…
China Announces Major Anti-Plastic Campaign
Workers stand over piles of used white plastic food containers at a construction site in Hefei, in eastern China’s Anhui provinceSTR/Getty The Chinese government has said it plans to ban plastic bags in the country’s major cities by the end of the year, Reuters reports. The bags will be banned in the rest of the country…
Ahead of Richmond Rally, Apple and Google Are Letting Nazis Use This App to Coordinate
Anti-racist activists gather on the one year anniversary of the Charlottesville alt-right rally.Cory Clark/NurPhoto via Getty Neo-nazi and fascist groups have been posting antisemitic and racist messages and calls for violence on the encrypted messaging app Telegram in advance of a massive gun rally in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday that far-right extremists are expected to…
Senators Will Get to Ignore Trump’s Tweets for Six Hours a Day
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) checks his phone.Alex Wong/Getty The Associated Press reports that the US Senate is about to launch a weeks-long experiment in which its members will be forced to put away their smartphones and maintain “silence, on pain of imprisonment.” This mandatory unplugging, based on a 19th-century senatorial tradition, is meant to improve…
“Not a Crime”: Republican Senators Try Out Their Impeachment Defenses
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts swears in senators for President Trump’s impeachment trial.Senate Television/AP President Donald Trump’s senatorial allies-slash-jurors hit the Sunday news shows to try out their best defenses of him ahead of his impeachment trial, which begins on Tuesday. On ABC’s This Week, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) disputed the fact that the…