Budget Official Ordered Hold On Aid To Ukraine Just After Trump-Zelensky Call
President Donald Trump talks to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the East Room of the White House on November 6, 2019. Drew Angerer/Getty Images) An Office of Management and Budget official named Michael Duffy likely has vital knowledge about why the White House ordered a hold on military aid to Ukraine, an issue…
Budget Official Ordered Hold On Aid To Ukraine an Hour After Trump-Zelensky Call
President Donald Trump talks to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the East Room of the White House on November 6, 2019. Drew Angerer/Getty Images) An Office of Management and Budget official named Michael Duffy likely has vital knowledge about why the White House ordered a hold on military aid to Ukraine, an issue…
North Korea Is About To Blow Up Trump’s Supposed Top Foreign Policy Win
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the South and North Korea on June 30, 2019 in Panmunjom, South Korea.Handout/Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images North Korea is reportedly set to test a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to American shores in coming days,…
Trump and Company Keep Confessing
Donald Trump talks to media as he leaves the White House by the South lawn on October 9, 2018.Tasos Katopodis /Getty Images After returning from a recent trip to Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani deployed an interesting tactic for the president’s personal lawyer: Confessing to the conduct for which Trump is being impeached. In public statements over the past…
The Wine Wars Continue: Warren Had a Winery Fundraiser in 2018
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks as South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg listens during the Democratic presidential primary debate at Loyola Marymount University on December 19, 2019 in Los Angeles.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images It wasn’t in wine cave. But in June 2018 Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren had a fundraiser at the City Winery Boston, where guests…
Monsters of the 2010s: Drake
Mother Jones illustration; Frazer Harrison/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Aubrey Graham is a person. “Drake” is a social phenomenon. He’s that dude who lives in sweatpants and Adidas slides, who ignores your texts for weeks then sends “Wyd” at 2 a.m. and you end up…