“Words Fail Me”—This Is Who Donald Trump Really Is
Matt Cardy/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. CNN published a bombshell report last night about more temper tantrums in the White House. This is not surprising because, of course, it’s about Donald Trump, but reading the details is still galling. President Donald Trump has at least twice in the past few weeks vented to his acting…
Lyndon LaRouche Is Still Alive and He’s Been Hobnobbing With Roger Stone
Mother Jones illustration; Bill Clark/CQ/ZUMA; Eckhard Herfet/dpa/AP; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Eleven days after President Donald Trump’s election, Roger Stone, a longtime self-proclaimed GOP dirty trickster and Trump adviser, invited an unusual guest on his short-lived radio show, Stone Cold Truth, and began the interview with a question about…
How One Company Is Making Millions Off Trump’s War on the Poor
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Renaud VigourtOne night last March, Sue Fredericks ran into trouble. She had been watching snow accumulate for hours from her post at a 24-hour gas station. Busy stretches on her overnight shift were rare, on account of the size of the town in which she…
Maria Butina Claimed to Have a “Signed Cooperation Agreement” With the National Rifle Association
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Confessed Russian agent Maria Butina claimed more than five years ago that her gun rights group had entered into a “signed cooperation agreement” with the National Rifle Association, according to a contemporaneous account of a talk Butina gave to an Israeli organization. Butina, who pleaded…
Leaked Memo: Government Scientists Warned Trump’s Oil Plan Would Threaten Alaska’s Polar Bears
Polar bears in the Arctic National Wildlife RefugeSylvain Cordier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an internal memo circulated within the Interior Department earlier this year, government scientists issued a stark warning: The Trump administration’s plans to allow oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) could further jeopardize…
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and the NRA
NRA annual convention in Dallas, May 2018Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump—more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses its power if it fails to…