How Trump’s Trade War Is Making Lobbyists Rich and Slamming Small Businesses
Richard Graulich/ZUMA This story was originally published 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. Mike Elrod voted for Donald Trump in 2016, hoping for a break from tight government oversight that…
Lying With Statistics: Republican Tax Cut Edition
I was doing a bit of research today for an article I have in the works and I happened to run across a great example of lying with statistics. That doesn’t happen to be part of the remit of the article, but I hated to let it go to waste. So here it is. A…
Hero and Monster of the 2010s: Listicles
Richard Vogel/AP The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. The listicle is such a ubiquitous online presence that it hardly seems worthy of a shoutout. But let’s take a moment to remember the early 2010s, when it first took the internet by storm and helped put BuzzFeed, who…
Pentagon: “Onward Movement” Doesn’t Mean Withdrawal From Iraq
Which way are they going?Capt. Robyn Haake/Planetpix/Planet Pix via ZUMA The Washington Post got hold of a draft letter this afternoon addressed to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense. It says that the US will be “repositioning forces over the course of the coming days and weeks to prepare for onward movement,” and ends by affirming…
Do We Drink Too Much Water?
So much water. So, so much.Kevin Drum It’s been a long time since I’ve indulged my pet peeve about the whole “eight glasses of water a day” thing, but today the New York Times indulges it for me. Their expert is Mitchell Rosner, a kidney specialist at the University of Virginia: For those of us…
John Bolton Says He’s Willing to Testify at Impeachment Trial
Yuri Oreshkin/Zuma After months of reticence, former national security adviser John Bolton announced Monday on his PAC website that should the Senate subpoena him, he would be willing to testify in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. In November, Bolton conditioned his participation in House impeachment proceedings on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by his former…