The Trump Homelessness Con Job Is Getting Near
Skid row in Los Angeles.Katrina Kochneva/ZUMA The Washington Post reports that President Trump is close to announcing a plan to “crack down” on homelessness in California. As near as I can tell, though, no one believes that he’s serious about helping the homeless. He just wants a big PR victory that shows what a hellhole…
Fun With Statistics, Minority-Owned Banks Edition
Axios reports that minority-owned banks have been disappearing since the financial crisis: Bank failures, mergers and closures have fueled a drop-off in the number of minority-owned banks. The institutions seek to provide financial services to communities left behind and underserved by the mainstream banking sector. I know we have bigger things to worry about, but…
Watch Adam Schiff Destroy the Republican Argument Against Impeachment
Shawn Thew/Zuma In a fiery statement bringing Thursday’s impeachment hearings to a close, House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff explained the gravity of the accusations against President Donald Trump and dismantled the Republican argument against impeachment. Where his Republican counterpart Devin Nunes resorted to bluster and a bit of Founding Father necrophilia, Schiff was clinical…
Obamacare Premiums Are Down This Year — But No One Knows It
Here are a couple of other interesting tidbits from the Kaiser tracking poll that I wrote about earlier this morning. First off, just about everyone—Democrats, Republicans, and Independents—thinks that Obamacare premiums have gone up this year: In fact, average premiums have gone down, an indication that the marketplace has started to stabilize. It would be…
An Impeachment Witness Shows How Republicans Are Helping Putin
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP It’s all about Russia. Or mostly. The fifth day of the House impeachment hearings on Thursday brought two consummate policy professionals to the witness stand. Each had a clear tale, from different perspectives, of the Trump-Giuliani operation to circumvent normal national security channels to muscle Ukraine into announcing the launch of investigations…
Fiona Hill Took Over Thursday’s Impeachment Hearing. That Was Bad for Trump.
Fiona Hill, the National Security Council’s former senior director for Europe and Russia testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on November 21, 2019.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Fiona Hill, the National Security Council’s former top Russia expert, admitted on Thursday afternoon that she had been unfair to Gordon Sondland, the ambassador…