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What an Explosive Story About Devin Nunes’ Family Farm Means for His High-Profile House Race

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)Bill Clark/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday, Esquire dropped a story exposing a “politically explosive secret” about Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)—one that he and his family have been harboring for more than decade. Nunes’ oft-repeated origin story is that he’s a local boy with a…

There’s a Better Way to Interview Sexual Assault Survivors. We Didn’t See It Thursday.

Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three hours into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s grueling testimony Thursday, Republicans’ hired questioner, prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, acknowledged the uselessness of pretending a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing could determine the truth of Ford’s allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her 36…

There’s a Better Way to Interview Sexual Assault Survivors. We Didn’t See It Yesterday.

Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three hours into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s grueling testimony Thursday, Republicans’ hired questioner, prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, acknowledged the uselessness of pretending a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing could determine the truth of Ford’s allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her 36…

Republicans Had 27 Years to Prepare for Another Anita Hill Moment. They’re Still Blowing It.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), joined at left by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), listens to Democrats on the panel appeal to delay the confirmation hearing of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, in Washington on September 4. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans…

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…