Trump Says He Plans to Keep US Troops in Iraq
President Donald Trump speaks at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, December 26, 2018.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is committed to pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Syria. But in at times rambling remarks to CBS’s Face the Nation, Trump…
Investigators Are Zeroing in on Top NRA Leaders’ Russia Ties—and Challenging the Gun Group’s Story
David Keene, Maria Butina, and then-NRA President James Porter at the 2014 NRA annual conferenceVK Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After remaining all but mum for the past two years about news reports detailing its ties to Russia, the National Rifle Association finally spoke up this week. The gun group…
The Trump Administration Said It Would Impose Tough New Sanctions on Russia. It Still Hasn’t.
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In August, when the Trump administration formally declared Russia responsible for the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, it invoked a decades-old law designed to punish countries that use chemical or biological weapons. As required by the…
The Report on Afghanistan That Trump Wanted “Locked Up” Was Just Released
Alex Edelman/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twenty-eight days ago, President Donald Trump spent part of his first Cabinet meeting of the year fulminating against inspector general reports—in particular, the ones about waste, fraud, and abuse in Afghanistan produced by an independent office established by Congress in 2008. “What kind of stuff is this?” he asked.…
Inside the Crazy and Vicious Feud Between Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi—and Why It Matters
US conservative political activist Jerome Corsi speaks outside the US Federal District Courthouse in Washington, DC, on January 3, 2019. Paul Handley/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Roger Stone dedicated his 2017 book about President Donald Trump’s election to three people: Richard Nixon, the late president whose face is…
No One Likes the State of the Union Address. So Why Bother?
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The annual State of the Union address: What exactly is the point? On the one hand, Nancy Pelosi’s Shutdown Smackdown put President Donald Trump in a corner by threatening to deny all that attention and adulation during a prime-time slot. On the…