Photos: Inside the Raucous, Colorful Protest that Shut Down “Wall Street West”
Leidesdorff Street, a shadowy corridor stretching just three blocks, is hardly the hub of San Francisco’s downtown Financial District. Yet for a few hours on Wednesday morning, a lively climate change protest swept through the alley, turning it into the front line in the fight for divestment—a movement to force big banks and financial institutions…
Trump’s Intelligence Chief Offers a Timely Reminder: Trump Is a Liar
Evan Vucci/AP Just about every day Donald Trump busts a norm—a norm of politics, a norm of governance, a norm of decency. This never-ending fusillade makes it is easy to lose sight of his individual acts of lowering (or demolishing) standards. Yet on Thursday morning, Trump’s top intelligence official presented a stunning reminder that Trump has…
Trump and His Right-Wing Allies Are Losing Their Minds Over the Whistleblower Complaint
Chip Somodevilla/Getty The long-anticipated whistleblower complaint that has become a central part of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump was finally released Thursday, and it did not reflect well on the White House. There was already damning public information thanks to a memo, released Wednesday, detailing what was said during Trump’s July 25…
Whistleblower Says Ukraine Scandal Goes Far Beyond Biden Dirt
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019.Saul Loeb AFP/Getty Images Over the last few days, President Donald Trump’s defenders have tried to frame the growing Ukraine scandal as a simple question of whether Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with an explicit…
Not Just Ukraine: Whistleblower Says the White House Is Hiding Other Damaging Documents
Li Muzi/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire The whistleblower complaint that spurred fresh calls for impeachment was released Thursday morning, revealing yet another bombshell allegation: White House officials abused a classified information system to hide the transcript of President Donald Trump’s incriminating July phone call with the Ukrainian president. Worse, the whistleblower says he was told this…
Trump Impeachment Liveblog, Day 3: Trump All but Threatens the Whistleblower
Mother Jones illustration The whistleblower’s complaint at the heart of Trump’s Ukraine scandal is officially out. The release kicks off another chaotic day on Capitol Hill, with Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, set to testify before lawmakers. Later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will give a press conference on the latest developments. Follow…