There’s a Brutal New Campaign Ad Targeting Devin Nunes and His Memo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) with Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Capitol Hill in Washington in October 2017.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update (1/2/2018): Citing a senior campaign aid, the Atlantic‘s Natasha Bertrand reported that Nunes’ Democratic opponent, Andrew Janz,…
The White House and GOP Keep Changing Their Story on the Nunes Memo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes at a March 22, 2017 news conference. Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press)Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans and the White House can’t seem to get their story straight on the controversial but still secret “Nunes memo,” which is said…
Scott Pruitt Went to the Senate and Was Reminded of the Time He Said Trump Would Be Worse Than Obama
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt testified for more than two hours before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee about his first year on the job. While Senate Republicans such as Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) gave him credit for helping create jobs by…
Republicans Are Poised to Release the Controversial Nunes Memo
mikolajn, adamkaz/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted late Monday to release a four-page memo by GOP staffers spearheaded by Rep. Devin Nunes, the committee’s chairman, that has become a cause célèbre among President Trump’s defenders. The vote means the memo can become public as soon…
A Three-Day Shutdown Is About All West Point Can Handle
Lt. Col. Frederick Black instructs a class at the U.S. Military Academy, at West Point, N.Y., on April 21, 2017.Richard Drew/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, as federal agencies kicked off the first workday of the government shutdown, the United States Military Academy at West Point faced a…
Does Donald Trump Want to Be Dictator of the United States?
The Republican National Convention in July 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It began the day he was sworn in, with his vow to end “American carnage”—a direct echo of his autocratic pronouncement when accepting the Republican nomination that “I alone can fix it.” Donald Trump has chipped away at…