Sherrod Brown Decided Not to Run for President. But He Has Big Ideas for How Democrats Could Take Back the Country.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) speaks at a culinary union hall in Las Vegas on February 23, 2019.John Locher/AP Sherrod Brown was going to run for president. But he wrote a book instead. Well, not exactly, the Ohio senator protests when I say as much. “I didn’t think, ‘Well, it’s a presidential primary and we gotta…
Republicans Keep Saying They Want to Question the Whistleblower. Now May Be Their Chance.
adrian825/Getty On Sunday morning, the lawyer for the whistleblower whose complaint is at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump said he has offered Republicans the chance to submit written questions directly to his client: WBer NEWS ALERT: 1/Our legal team offered GOP direct opportunity to ask written questions of #whistleblower. Recent GOP…
Trump Just Threatened to Pull Federal Funding From California Over its Handling of Fires. Again.
Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, and Jerry Brown during the president’s visit of the Camp Fire in Paradise last year.Paul Kitagaki Jr/ZUMA Wire President Donald Trump just threatened to cut off federal funding to California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “forest management,” which the president blamed for the wildfires that have ripped through wide swaths of the…
Trump Is in Denial About Getting Booed Again, This Time at a UFC Fight
Evan Vucci/AP Depending on where you were standing in Madison Square Garden last night when President Donald Trump walked in for a UFC fight, you might have heard overwhelming boos from the crowd around you. Or a smattering of cheers and applause. Or just blasting music from overhead. However, following the deeply satisfying videos of…
It Turns Out Team Trump Has Spent Years Falsely Claiming Ukraine—Not Russia—Was Behind DNC Hack
Michael Brochstein//ZUMA Wire On the famous July phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump pressed the Ukrainian president to look into the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee. The belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was actually behind the hack is a pretty confusing but persistent conspiracy theory on the right, despite being thoroughly debunked. And…
Texas Signed off on the Restoration of This Old Coal Mine. Now a Leaky Landfill Is Contaminating Groundwater.
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune This story was originally published by Grist and The Texas Tribune and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It seems like everyone in Rockdale is talking about Sandow Lakes Ranch. That’s because so many residents of this old mining hub in Central Texas believe that the fate of the…