Stone Trial Reveals Trump Likely Lied to Mueller
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP President Donald Trump likely lied to special counsel Robert Mueller about conversations he had in 2016 regarding WikiLeaks’ plans to release information stolen from Democrats by Russian hackers. That’s the big takeaway from dramatic courtroom testimony that occurred Tuesday in the trial of Roger Stone. The revelations came from Rick Gates, a…
Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller’s Unfiltered Anti-Immigrant Views
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller during a December interview.Jacquelyn Martin/AP In private emails in 2015 and 2016, President Donald Trump’s top immigration adviser touted a vilely racist novel that warns of a migrant invasion, promoted the ideas of white nationalist publications, and raged at retailers who stopped selling Confederate flags in the wake of the massacre of…
How America’s Election Machines are Vulnerable to Foreign Manipulation
Credit Image: © Renee Jones Schneider/TNS via ZUMA Wire Election security has garnered a lot of attention in the wake of Russian’s 2016 influence operation. In particular, concerns over the reliability and integrity of voting machines—long a subject of considerable attention in hacker and tech circles—has made its way into the mainstream, prompting many states…
Warren Wants to Make It a Crime for Corporations to Lie to Regulators
Protesters, many of them children, took to the streets in Washington, DC, to demand action on climate change on September 20.Jeff Malet/Zuma In light of recent revelations that ExxonMobil determined as far back as 1982 that humankind had contributed to climate change and then withheld that knowledge from the public for almost four decades, Elizabeth Warren…
Just How Bad Is LAX?
Wheels up at LAX for a red-eye flight.Kevin Drum From the Wall Street Journal: LAX, like some other airports, is a collection of terminals built around one double-deck roadway, with one level for departures and another for arrivals. Both are so clogged it can take an hour just to drop someone off after you enter…
The Democrats’ Impeachment Strategy Is Simple—and Risky
Susan Walsh/AP Less is more. That’s the mantra for the House Democrats, as they take their impeachment inquiry into a new phase: public hearings. For weeks, the House committees leading this effort—the intelligence, foreign affairs, and oversight committees—have narrowly focused on one matter: the Trump-Ukraine scandal and the tale of Donald Trump apparently abusing the…