“The Americans Are Traitors”: Trump Faces a Major Backlash Over Syria Announcement
President Donald Trump greets Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in June at the G20 summit in Japan.Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Donald Trump upended US military policy in the Middle East Sunday night, announcing through a White House statement that he would permit a “long-planned” Turkish invasion of northern Syria, a region controlled mainly by Kurds who…
The Case For Donald Trump
Last night I saw a TV ad blasting Democrats for trying to impeach Donald Trump. It made three points: Hunter Biden made a bunch of money in Ukraine. Joe Biden got Ukraine’s prosecutor fired. The prosecutor claims he was fired because he was putting so much pressure on Hunter Biden. This is simple, straightforward, and…
Addiction and Mental Illness Are Rampant Among the Homeless
The LA Times reports today that the public perception of homelessness in Los Angeles is more accurate than the official happy talk: The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority…said only 29% of the homeless population had either a mental illness or substance abuse disorder….The Times, however, found that about 67% had either a mental illness or…
Reminder: Trump Has a Massive Conflict of Interest in Turkey
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump at the June 2019 G-20 conference in Osaka, Japan. Presidential Press Service/Pool Photo via AP Late Sunday night, the Trump administration announced that US troops would be pulling back from their positions northern Syria, allowing Turkey to move into a region controlled by Kurdish…
What Cable News Anchors Get Right—And Wrong—About Real-Time Fact-Checking
Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty We live in an age where disinformation is a serious and dangerous threat to our democracy. And that has never been more apparent than in the past couple of weeks, when the details of a phone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—in which Trump pressured the Ukrainian leader…
The Trump Administration Has Figured out How to Get Rid of Federal Workers Without Firing Them
Bill Clark/AP “It’s nearly impossible to fire a federal worker,” acting White House chief of staff and budget chief Mick Mulvaney told the audience at a South Carolina Republicans’ dinner in August. “I know that because a lot of them work for me, and I’ve tried. You can’t do it.” But Mulvaney reassured his audience…