Roger Stone Just Risked Prison to Reference Roger Rabbit
Roger Stone enters federal court on February 21, 2019.Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Roger Stone’s inability to shut up may land him in prison before he even faces trial. Despite finding himself in hot water due to an Instagram post just a few weeks ago, over…
Here’s How to Fund Medicare For All
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If we were all Republicans around here, we wouldn’t bother asking “How are you going to pay for Medicare for All?” We’d just stand up with our shoulders square and give a straight answer: “That’s a problem for Congress and I don’t want to prejudge…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Had the Perfect Response to People Who Think She’s a “Pretty Idiot”
Dan Herrick/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) doesn’t mince words. In an interview published Sunday in The New Yorker, the 29-year-old congresswoman took aim at her critics, whose attacks, she says, are rising to the level of “ravenous hysteria.” What has made her such a target,…
Coal Burning Plants Aren’t Just Polluting the Air—They’re Poisoning Water
zhongguo/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fossil fuel companies have polluted the groundwater of communities across the country with poisonous chemicals. According to a new comprehensive study by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice, the groundwater beneath 91 percent of coal plants has been contaminated with coal ash, the byproduct…
House Democrats Want Trump’s Communications With Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump at a joint press conference on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland Kremlin Pool/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three committees in the House of Representatives teamed up Monday to pursue missing information about conversations between President Donald Trump and Russian President…
Scandal-Plagued Race in North Carolina Might Not Be Decided for Another Nine Months
Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, testifies during a public evidentiary hearing on voting irregularities.Travis Long/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New election dates have been set for the scandal-plagued congressional race in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District—but a winner may not be declared for another…