The GOP Released Its Own Witness List for Impeachment Inquiries—and It’s All About Biden and Clinton
AP Photo/Alex Brandon House Republicans released a wish list Saturday morning of witnesses they’d like to see testify when Congress holds its first public hearings on President Donald Trump’s “perfect” call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky next week. Not surprisingly, most of them have nothing to do with the impropriety of the call itself. House…
The GOP Just Released Its Own Witness List for Impeachment Inquiries—and It’s All About Biden and Clinton
AP Photo/Alex Brandon House Republicans released a wish list Saturday morning of witnesses they’d like to see testify when Congress holds its first public hearings on President Donald Trump’s “perfect” call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelinsky next week. Not surprisingly, most of them have nothing to do with the impropriety of the call itself. House…
This Is What Happened at the First Presidential Environmental Justice Forum
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and moderators Mustafa Ali and Amy Goodman at the South Carolina State University environmental justice presidential forum.Sean Rayford/Stringer/Getty This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Only six candidates turned out for the first ever presidential forum on environmental justice at South Carolina…
Most Republicans Think Pressuring Foreign Countries to Investigate Political Rivals is Normal
AP Photo/John Bazemore A new poll on how Americans feel about impeachment shows that most of those surveyed—of all political stripes—think impeachment is a necessary tool, and presidential abuse of power is a legitimate reason for using it. But a majority of Republicans say they think that a president trying to use the full weight…
Online Voting is a Really, Really Bad Idea
Miguel Candela/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Casting votes over the internet—at least for anything more important than a Twitter poll—is not secure. “This level of secrecy hardly inspires confidence.”This is not a controversial position. In September 2018, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, alongside some of the foremost election and information security experts…
Wisconsin’s Statehouse Is at War Over Its Dairy Crisis
In April 2019, Ryan Dunham sold the 50 dairy cows on his farm in Westby, Wis. Dunham, due to the challenging finances he faced from low milk prices.Peter Thomson/AP Photo/La Crosse Tribune In Wisconsin, one of the nation’s key battleground states for the 2020 presidential election, dairy is big business. But low milk prices and…