Donald Trump Is the Biggest Middle-Class Tax Raiser of All Time
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ha ha ha: President Trump recently announced plans to impose a 10 percent tax on $200 billion of imports from China effective September 24, escalating to 25 percent effective January 1, 2019. When added to tariffs that have already been implemented, total trade taxes imposed…
Women: Getting to the Top Is Tougher for Women. Men: Nah.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Why do women have a hard time making it to the top in America? Let’s ask them! And while we’re at it, let’s ask men too: That’s a little small and hard to read. Sorry. You can read the entire survey here. But small or…
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Endorses Local Politician Accused of Peddling “Racist Conspiracies”
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, Mother Jones reported that controversial, Putin-loving Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) had hobnobbed at a fundraiser with an alleged Holocaust denier—after being criticized for his previous association with the man. This week, Rohrabacher, who is in a tough race to hold on to his…
Sessions Is Poised to Make It Vastly Harder for Asylum-Seekers to Get Out of Detention
Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new decision from Attorney General Jeff Sessions is likely to make it dramatically harder for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers to get out of detention. On Tuesday, in a now-familiar tactic, Sessions used his broad authority over America’s immigration courts to refer…
Trump Visited Rain-Drenched North Carolina and It Went About as Well as You’d Expect
Trump stands in front of a home that suffered damage from Hurricane Florence; in the background is a yacht that washed ashore.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After Hurricane Florence dumped 34 inches of rain on the Carolinas, swelling rivers and flooding neighborhoods and towns, Donald Trump toured the particularly…
It’s 2018 and Candidates Are Still Running Attack Ads Against Iraq War Protesters
McSally for Senate/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally, both current members of Congress, are locked in a tight contest in the race to succeed retiring Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. McSally, who touts the endorsement of President Donald Trump despite refusing to say…