Facebook Says It’s Here to Help—But It Can’t Explain How
Niall Carson/PA Wire/ZUMA During a major address at Georgetown University on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg kept hammering the same point: connecting people (on Facebook) and elevating their voices is good for society. Compromising on this (on Facebook), he argued, would stifle their free speech, which would be bad for society. “Our mutual commitment to each other—that…
Trump’s Evangelical Base Is Cracking Over Syria. Now He’s Scrambling to Keep His “Mandate of Heaven.”
Evan Vucci/AP When President Donald Trump appeared on Saturday night at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC, he was speaking to an audience of his most loyal supporters. But for the first time in his administration, he had done something that had awakened the long slumbering consciences of prominent evangelical leaders and their flocks.…
“Heels On, Gloves Off!” Women March Against Trump’s Impeachment in Washington. But Really Not Many.
Pro-Trump marchers assemble in Washington to march on the Capitol.Stephanie Mencimer/Mother Jones On Thursday, impeachment foes converged on Washington for the first big pro-Trump rally in the city since shortly after Donald Trump was elected president. According to its website, the “March for Trump: Stop Impeachment Now!” event was initiated by people who “want our…
Americans Are Getting More Satisfied in the Trump Era
Apropo of nothing in particular, here is the latest iteration of a poll that Gallup conducts monthly: We Americans are never very satisfied with how things are going in our country, and we’ve been especially unsatisfied over the past few years. But we’re getting happier! And the Trump years have made us happier still. Roughly…
Democrats Should Move Slowly on Impeachment
Shealah Craighead/White House/ZUMA Should Democrats move fast or slow on impeachment? I say slow. For one thing, new evidence is pouring out like a fire hose right now, and we should keep the investigation going until we have as good a picture as we can get of what really happened. Politically, it’s also the best…
How an Indicted Oligarch Became a Key Player in Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
Dmytro Firtash at a public hearing at the supreme court in Vienna on June 25, 2019Herbert Neubauer/Getty On September 29, Rudy Giuliani appeared on ABC News, waving a fistful of papers. The document in his hand was an affidavit from Viktor Shokin, a former top Ukrainian prosecutor who was fired in 2016 under international pressure…