Trump’s War Cabinet Is Taking Shape
Justin Lane/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago the White House said that H.R. McMaster still had the president’s full confidence. That’s a death sentence, of course, and today the axe fell. He’s out and John Bolton is in: General McMaster will retire from the…
Donald Trump Taps John Bolton to Replace H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser
John Bolton, warmonger and devotee of bad facial hair. Bolton believes that Trump’s sanctions against North Korea are worthless and we should just invade them instead. He also wants to bomb Iran. He will soon be Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor.Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. H.R.…
Minor League Baseball Players Make Poverty-Level Wages. Congress Wants to Keep It That Way.
Angel Zayas/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tucked away on page 1,967 of the $1.3 trillion omnibus bill making its way through Congress in an effort to avoid a government shutdown, between child welfare protections legislation and a bill to combat abuse of youth athletes, is a provision that would…
Trump Attacks “Crazy Joe Biden,” Says He Could Beat Up Former Vice President
Andreas Gebert/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump attacked former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday for saying that he would “beat the hell out of” the president if the two had been in high school together. The two grown men are no longer in high school, and…
Large-Scale Animal Agriculture Is Threatening Rural Communities. Congress Is About to Make it Worse.
dhughes9/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Residents of tiny Lone Jack, MO, are fighting a proposal by a local ranch to expand its feedlot from around 600 cows to nearly 7,000. It is the latest in a series of communities pushing back against a national trend toward concentrated animal agriculture.…
50 Years After Their Historic Strike, Memphis Sanitation Workers Are Still Fighting
Bishop Julian Smith (left) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right) flank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis on March 28, 1968.Jack Thornell/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. February 1, 1968, was a dreary day in Memphis, Tennessee. As a storm rolled over the city, blanketing…