Rudy Giuliani Finally Described The Essence of Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Truth is relative.” Leave it to Rudy Giuliani to efficiently articulate the essence of the Trump era. Perhaps the presidential lawyer—in explaining how Robert Mueller “may have a different version of the truth than we do”—meant to nod to the ontological question, familiar to any…
Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration’s Creepy War on Language
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared at TomDispatch.com. Consider us officially in an Orwellian world, though we only half realize it. While we were barely looking, significant parts of an American language long familiar to us quite literally, and in a remarkably coherent way, went…
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown is a Boom Time for Private Prisons
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hardline immigration policies put in place by President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have inspired more than just fear and panic in immigrant communities—they’ve also inspired investors in private prisons. In the week following the 2016 election, stock prices for the country’s two biggest…
Russia’s Campaign to Help Trump Win Was Just the Start
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI special agent Clint Watts was tracking Islamic State terrorists and their propaganda on Twitter in 2014 when he first encountered a different kind of troll. These accounts weren’t trying to recruit fighters for jihad. They were promoting an…
Trump Is Now Fundraising Off Conspiracy Theory That FBI “Infiltrated” His Campaign
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s longstanding frustrations with the ongoing Russia investigations hit a new level Sunday, when he announced over social media that he intended to order the Justice Department investigate claims that the FBI may have wrongly “infiltrated” his presidential campaign for political…
Michael Cohen Met With Qatari Official and Nuclear Plant Owner Last Month
Michael Cohen leaves court in Manhattan on Monday April 16, 2018.Go Nakamura/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a meeting in Miami on April 5, Franklin Haney, the owner of an inoperative nuclear power plant in Hollywood, Alabama, sought a major investment for his facility, according to two sources…