House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Corey Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn
Mandel Ngan/Getty Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager who on Thursday got an apparent endorsement from Trump for a possible Senate bid in New Hampshire, recently received something else: a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee. House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that the panel subpoenaed Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn, a former…
Retail Spending Remains Totally Boring
The Wall Street Journal reports that US shoppers “splurged” in July: American shoppers gave the U.S. economy a solid boost in July, a counter to weakness in the manufacturing sector and Wall Street jitters about faltering growth….The robust report—the strongest reading since March and a sign that American consumers remain a source of fuel for…
Here’s Your Daily Culture War Exercise From the President
TNS via ZUMA Donald Trump sure does know how to keep the culture wars front and center: At the urging of President Trump, Israel on Thursday took the extraordinary step of barring two Democratic U.S. congresswomen who have been outspoken critics of the president from visiting the country. Trump, who has launched a campaign against…
The Pentagon’s Fighter Jet of the Future Is Causing a Whole Lot of Problems in the Present
Cpl. Francisco J. Diaz Jr./US Marine Corps/Getty The F-35 fighter jet program has long been, as they say in the military, FUBAR. With a price tag that was slated to be $233 billion, the program’s costs have doubled over the past two decades, even as hundreds of jets remain unfit for combat and remain stuck in testing. The so-called…
When Your Rapist Demands Custody
Before her son began school last year, Tiffany Gordon showed his father’s mugshot to school administrators. “If you see this guy, you have to call the police,” she told them. Ten years earlier, when Tiffany was 12, a young man she knew invited her, her sister, and a friend on a late-night car ride. “I…
Political Campaigns Are Pitching Donor-Match Programs That Might Not Exist
Nikolas Joao Kokovlis/Sopa/Zuma As the Democratic presidential candidates wound down their second debate in Detroit last month, Donald Trump’s fundraising committee blasted out an email decrying the “socialist circus” with a tempting offer to supporters of the president. “Our biggest fundraising deadline of the year is just 3 hours away, and we are still well…