Election Watchdog Hits Jeb Bush’s Super-PAC With Massive Fine for Taking Money From Foreign Nationals
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Federal Election Commission has hit Right to Rise USA, the super-PAC that backed Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid, with a record fine for accepting a seven-figure donation from a company owned by Chinese nationals who were in business with Bush’s brother, Neil,…
The Dark, Uncomfortable History of Political Tribalism and What It Means for November 6
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Especially after a week like this one, it’s easy to think of the United States as a divided nation that will never change. But it didn’t always feel that way. “We take for granted the concept of ‘Red America, Blue America’ as just part…
Cash Bonuses and Waived Drug Tests Couldn’t Help the Army Meet Its Recruitment Goals This Year
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Months after Donald Trump promised a “great rebuilding of the Armed Forces,” the Army said that it had missed its recruiting goal for the first time in over a decade. It had aimed to enlist 76,500 new members this year but missed the mark…
Why the Scooter Libby Case—and Trump’s Pardon—Really, Really Matter
Scooter Libby outside federal court after his 2007 conviction.Gerald Herbert/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We should have seen this coming. More than a decade ago, I. Lewis Libby—a.k.a. Scooter—was convicted in federal court of lying to a grand jury and to the FBI and of obstructing justice. Libby had…
11 Historical Moments That Gave Us President Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by TomDispatch. The present arrives out of a past that we are too quick to forget, misremember, or enshroud in myth. Yet like it or not, the present is the product of past choices. Different decisions back then might have yielded…