James Comey’s Leaked Memoir Claims Trump Was Obsessed With the Alleged “Pee Tape”
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Portions of former FBI director James Comey’s upcoming memoir have started to leak—and the revelations are making (ahem) quite a splash. The New York Post is reporting that Comey wrote that in a conversation with President Donald Trump in January 2017, Trump actually…
A Liberal Who Worked at Fox News Has Some Pretty Good Advice About How to Put Up With Conservatives
Paul Takeuchi Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When progressive political commentator Sally Kohn stepped into an office full of conservatives at the start of her job at Fox News in 2011, “I had this idea that they were oozing hate at me,” she said. “Then I realized the reality was more…
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s Portrait of America Is a Devastating Must-Read
Victoria Smith/eyevine/Redux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2012, Princeton professor Tracy K. Smith won a Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection Life on Mars. But her highest distinction came last year, when Smith, 46, was named US poet laureate. Wade in the Water, her latest book, deftly covers…
Listen to a Powerful Reminder of Why Martin Luther King Still Matters
Gabourey Sidibe reads “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence” in The Radical King.Audible Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. April 4th marks 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. For nearly as long, there’s been a struggle to claw back King’s legacy from an effort…
George Papadopoulos Claimed Trump Encouraged His Efforts to Establish a Russian Back Channel
Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulus, pled guilty to lying to the FBI in early October. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A campaign adviser for Donald Trump saying that Trump encouraged his efforts during the 2016 election to make contact with the Kremlin. President Barack Obama’s reaction to…
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The story of Wawarsing, New York, sounds a lot like the stories of small towns across the United States. Once a proud manufacturing hub known for producing high-quality knives in the Hudson Valley, its 150-year-old industry withered as companies were bought and sold, then squeezed for maximum profit until they packed up and moved…