Reminder: Trump Has a Massive Conflict of Interest in Turkey
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump at the June 2019 G-20 conference in Osaka, Japan. Presidential Press Service/Pool Photo via AP Late Sunday night, the Trump administration announced that US troops would be pulling back from their positions northern Syria, allowing Turkey to move into a region controlled by Kurdish…
Trump and His Right-Wing Allies Are Losing Their Minds Over the Whistleblower Complaint
Chip Somodevilla/Getty The long-anticipated whistleblower complaint that has become a central part of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump was finally released Thursday, and it did not reflect well on the White House. There was already damning public information thanks to a memo, released Wednesday, detailing what was said during Trump’s July 25…
Trump’s New National Security Adviser Is Another Iran Hawk
Robert C. O’Brien, the State Department’s lead hostage negotiator, returns to the courthouse on the third day of the A$AP Rocky assault trial in Stockholm.Michael Campanella/Getty Eight days after ousting John Bolton as national security adviser, President Donald Trump named the State Department’s top hostage negotiator, Robert C. O’Brien, to the job. A former colleague…
Trump Keeps Contradicting Himself on Iran
Chip Somodevilla/Getty The long-simmering feud between the United States and Iran roared back to life Saturday as the Trump administration pinned blame on Tehran for the recent attacks against crucial Saudi Arabian oil facilities that were carried out with a fleet of drones. The Houthis, an Iranian-backed rebel group fighting the Saudi-led military coalition in…
Retreat from Rising Seas? It May Be Controversial, but It’s the World’s New Reality.
A home is seen inundated with water from Hurricane Florence as it passed through North Carolina during September 2018.Joe Raedle/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Indonesia just found itself a new capital. The country’s president, Joko Widodo, announced last Monday that the new seat of government will be…
Look No Further Than Brazil’s Amazon Fire for the Dangers of Deregulation
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took power this year promising to open the Amazon rainforest to industry, roll back environmental and indigenous protections, and stack his Cabinet with ideologues who dismiss climate change as a Marxist hoax. But the record wildfires now raging…