After a Deadly Earthquake, He Rebuilt His Life In America. Now Trump Threatens to Knock Him Down Again.
Keshav Bhattarai (left) with his family in Florida.Mother Jones; Courtesy Keshav Bhattarai Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Keshav Raj Bhattarai and his wife came to the United States in May 2015, they left behind a city where roads had cracked in two and historical landmarks had collapsed into rubble.…
On the Death Penalty, John Hickenlooper May Have Tried Too Hard to Find a Middle Ground
David Zalubowski/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In December 1993, 19-year-old Nathan Dunlap, who had recently been fired from a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Aurora, Colorado, shot five of his former colleagues—only one survived. The public was shocked by the gruesome and senseless nature of the murders in a…
Trump Continues Stirring Dangerous Hatred of the Media
Speaking at CPAC on March 2, 2019Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid the constant deluge of wild political news and Trump White House scandals, the president’s disturbing attacks on the press seem to draw less and less notice. (Which is not a coincidence.) Yet Trump’s taunts have continued…
The Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Trump Has Ties to Chinese Government-Linked Groups
Yang, right, attends the 2016 Republican National Convention. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Li Yang, the Florida massage parlor entrepreneur who created and operated a business that sold Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago, has yet another intriguing line of work. She is…
Devin Nunes Tweeted About Straws and a Lot of People Decided His Take…Sucked
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., listens during the House Intelligence Committee hearing in July, 2018. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls debate the merits of socialism versus capitalism, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) warned Saturday night that socialism has already taken over…
Trump Is Spoiling for Yet Another Big Fight Over Border Wall Funding
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving for Alabama to survey areas devastated by powerful tornadoes, in Washington D.C., on March 8, 2019. Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump will again plunge the nation into a bitter fight and more uncertainty…