Andrew McCabe Confirms 25th Amendment Discussions to Remove Trump From Office
Jeff Malet/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump wasted no time lashing out at former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Thursday following his revelation that Justice Department officials had discussed working with members of the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. The talks to try to remove Trump…
Trump Has Abandoned Human Rights in North Korea
President Donald Trump greets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their summit in Singapore last year.Shealah Craighead/Planet Pix/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump emerged from a landmark meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in June, he touted the brutal regime’s “tremendous potential”…
Trump Judicial Nominees Are Refusing to Endorse Brown v. Board of Education
Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 5.Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s no Supreme Court decision more widely celebrated than Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous 1954 ruling that…
Paul Manafort Lied to Robert Mueller About Russian Contacts, Judge Rules
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors about his contacts with a colleague who had suspected ties to Russian intelligence, activity that occurred while Manafort ran President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and continued into 2018. Judge Amy Berman Jackson found…
How Paul Manafort Couldn’t Stop Colluding With a Suspected Russian Intelligence Associate
Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, continued doing work in Ukraine after he was indicted.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A boatload of revelations produced by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has already yielded strong evidence that Paul Manafort was colluding with pro-Putin forces when he…
How Facebook Screwed Us All
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This essay is the cover story for our March/April issue. (Subscribe here!) Portions of it appeared earlier here and here. A country riven by ethnic tension. Spontaneous protests driven by viral memes. Violence and riots fueled by hateful fake-news posts, often about “terrorism” by marginalized…