Paul Manafort’s Lawyers Tried—and Failed—to Redact This Sensitive Legal Filing
Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When lawyers for Paul Manafort filed documents on Monday responding to special counsel Robert Mueller’s allegations that President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman had repeatedly lied to federal investigators, they did so under seal, with Manafort’s defense team signaling that redacted versions would…
A New York Times Columnist Makes the Case for Removing Donald Trump From Office
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a scathing opinion column on Saturday, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt called for President Donald Trump’s removal from office, not just by impeachment—which “would probably rally the president’s supporters”—but by first conducting a series of “sober-minded hearings to highlight Trump’s misconduct” for the…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Donald Trump Is Most Definitely a Racist
Courtesy of CBS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper Sunday evening, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old Democratic Socialist from New York who, along with all other new members of Congress, was sworn in on January 3, said President Donald Trump is a racist, “no question.” Cooper…
Trump Is Making an Ass of Himself Over the Shutdown
Chris Kleponis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things aren’t looking good for President Trump. The government shutdown—for which the public mostly blames him, despite his claims to the contrary—is now in its 16th day. Democrats are officially in charge of the House. Trump has made no progress on securing funding…
Beto O’Rourke Says He’s “Supportive of the Concept” of a Green New Deal
The term surged into mainstream political discourse just two months ago when activists staged a protest in now–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, demanding that the incoming Democratic majority in the House champion a sweeping climate policy to zero out greenhouse gas emissions and combat worsening income inequality. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) proposed a resolution to…
Trump and Social Media Could Be An Even More Dangerous Combination in 2019
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A country riven by ethnic tension. Spontaneous organizing fueled by viral memes. Hateful fake-news posts about “terrorism” from marginalized groups inciting violence and riots. It’s a story we’ve seen play out around the world recently, from France and Germany to Burma, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria.…