Here’s One Republican Who Says He’ll Buck the NRA on Expanded Background Checks
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, left, said sales between friends and between family members would be exempted from any new background check requirement.Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman In the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in El Paso in early August, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick signaled he would toe the conservative line and blame everything but…
MIT Tried to Cover Up Donations From Jeffrey Epstein
Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post In the weeks since Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest and subsequent death in a New York City jail, we’ve learned a lot about the willingness of some of America’s most elite institutions—and the people who run them—to pal around with a convicted sex offender so long as the checks kept clearing. One prominent…
Congress Wants to Know If the Air Force Is Propping up Trump’s Golf Course
Air Force One lands at Prestwick Airport near Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort in July 2018.Press Association via AP Images The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether the U.S. military is being used to steer taxpayer money to President Donald Trump’s Scottish golf course, according to a new report from Politico. According to the report, House…
You Don’t Need a President to Know Which Way the Wind Blows
Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post/Getty This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Official warnings about Hurricane Dorian, which continues on its tight-spinning crawl along the Southeastern US coast, have now been supplemented, underscored, and bungled by the nation’s president. Amid the chaotic weather reports emanating from his mouth and Twitter feed, Trump has already mistakenly declared…
This Apple Might Be the Most Anticipated Piece of Produce in History
Aysia Stieb/The California Sunday Magazine After two decades of research and development, it’s no wonder the Cosmic Crisp, a new variety of apple, is causing such a stir even before it hits supermarket shelves: There have been launch parties, press conferences, Instagram Influencers, and a $10.5 million marketing budget. On this week’s episode of Bite,…
Trump to Ukraine: No Aid Unless You Smear Joe Biden
Unfortunately, Fred Hiatt is right: this is astonishing. I shouldn’t be astonished, but this is astonishing: The Trump administration withholding military aid from an important ally–apparently for one reason only: to corruptly pressure it to interfere in the 2020 election @postopinions @jacksondiehl https://t.co/vpoUVh4izE — Fred Hiatt (@hiattf) September 6, 2019 We already knew that Donald…