The Senate GOP Just Confirmed a Trump Aide with No Relevant Experience to Lead America’s Financial Industry Watchdog
Ron Sachs/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Kathy Kraninger, a White House budget official with no consumer finance experience, as the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog agency created in the wake of the financial crisis to regulate certain financial institutions.…
Donald Trump Is About as Popular as Other Presidents
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m not trying to make you depressed, but here’s the Gallup presidential approval tracker for Donald Trump and three other recent presidents at about the 100-week mark: Trump started out with record lows, but his approval level has been flat ever since since. The others…
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and the NRA
NRA annual convention in Dallas, May 2018Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump—more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses its power if it fails to…
A Short Primer In How to Handle the Deaths of Public Figures
Win Mcnamee/PoolPrensa via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It is times like this that make me hate social media more than usual. However, better to light a candle than curse the darkness, right? So here’s how the ordinary world works, folks: When someone dies who is not Idi Amin…
What Qualifies You to Become a Top Trump Energy Regulator? Telling Your Son to Deny Climate Change.
Bernard McNamee, President Trump’s nomination to join an energy industry regulatory body, gives a talk in February at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event.Energy and Policy Institute/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last February, Bernard McNamee stood behind the lectern in a crowded hotel ballroom in Austin, Texas, to deliver a speech on…
Murder Rates Are Declining For the Second Year in a Row
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jeff Asher of the New York Times takes a look at 2018 murder rates in big cities and extrapolates a likely decline of about 5 percent nationwide. If that pans out, the US murder rate will look like this: So murder rates rose for two…