Trump Is “Acting Like A Mob Boss.” How Far Is He Really Willing to Go?
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It happened: The Attorney General of the United States has been forced out. The resignation letter of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III hit the internet on Wednesday morning—even as votes continue to be counted in an election that handed the House back to Democrats for the first…
Now Is No Time to Quit
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a bad couple of weeks for truth. We don’t need to go back over it all: A hearing and investigation that seemed more concerned with providing cover for a foregone conclusion than with uncovering facts. The crocodile tears for survivors, before tossing them…
Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark Makes $1 Million Gift to Mother Jones
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones today announced that Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, has made a $1 million gift to support its investigative journalism efforts. An entrepreneur and philanthropist, Newmark is a long-time, vocal advocate for a vigorous, trustworthy press. “We’re in the middle of…
Jason Kander Says Only One Party “Wants to Let Black People Vote”
Ed Ritger/The Commonwealth Club Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jason Kander keeps busy. He’s a combat veteran, a former Missouri secretary of state, the founder of voting rights advocacy group Let America Vote, a podcast host, and a candidate for Kansas City mayor. Now he’s written a memoir, Outside the Wire, which…
The Real Russia Scandal Is Hiding in Plain Sight. Yet Trump May Get Away With It.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece, “Donald Trump Is Getting Away With the Biggest Scandal in American History,” that struck a chord with a lot of people. And I’ve been thinking a lot about where we go from here, because demonstrating that Trump is…
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…