Trump’s Signature Looks Like an Audio Waveform. So We Synthesized Sound From It.
Mother Jones illustration President Trump’s signature has been scrawled across 8×10 glossies, MAGA hats, and controversial executive orders. It’s been analyzed by handwriting experts and parodied by meme experts. But one thing stands out most about his signature: it looks like an audio waveform. Through the miracle of science, researchers have been able to convert…
Trump Praises Kim Jong Un’s “Beautiful Vision for His Country”
Dong-A Ilbo/Getty North Korea—a country best known for its systemic human rights violations and unpredictable, authoritarian leaders—fired two short-range missiles on Friday, the South Korean media reported. This latest weapons test, the hermit kingdom’s third in eight days, would typically inspire some element of concern or retaliatory action from the United States, which North Korea…
You Never Knew You Needed a Book on Richard Holbrooke, but Goddamn Is It Good
US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke makes comments condemning the Taliban’s murder of ten members of an Irish-based aid group, called the International Assistance Mission, at the State Department in Washington, DC, on August 9, 2010. © UPPA/ZUMAPRESS.com Longtime US diplomat Richard Holbrooke was many things: US ambassador to Germany, an author,…
Trump’s Intelligence Pick Is a Mueller-Bashing Loyalist With a Far-Right Voting Record
Olivier Doulier/Getty Rep. John Ratcliffe, the Texas representative who President Donald Trump picked Sunday to be his next national intelligence director, has never served in the intelligence community. Nor, unlike previous directors, does he have any background in the military or as a national security expert. Instead, the three-term lawmaker has carved out a reputation as one of the most…
Trump Creates Yet Another Firestorm After Attack on Cummings
J. Scott Applewhite/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday denounced President Donald Trump’s attacks against Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) as “racist,” after the president derided Cummings’ predominantly black district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess.” “We all reject racist attacks against [Cummings] and support his steadfast leadership,” Pelosi said, marking the second time in…
Democrats Say Their Impeachment Inquiry Has Already Begun
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and fellow Democratic members of the committee at a news conference Friday.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images For months, Democrats have debated whether the House of Representatives should open impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. But on Friday, key House Democrats declared that such a probe is already underway. It’s a semantic…