Yes, Your Tax Refund Is Smaller
Mother Jones illustration; PeopleImages/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’ve already filed your taxes this year, perhaps you’ve felt a certain sting. The one where Turbotax gets to the final screen or your accountant gives you a number and you learn that your 2018 refund is lower than you’d…
Navy Promised Changes After Deadly Accidents, but Many Within Remain Skeptical
On Aug. 21, 2017, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) steers towards Changi Naval Base in Singapore after a collision. Navy and Marine Corps divers will enter flooded compartments on the ship to search for 10 missing sailors.Joshua Fulton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story originally…
Michael Cohen’s Testimony Today Was Explosive, But Probably Not Explosive Enough
Christy Bowe/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I assume you’ve all been getting your Michael Cohen fixes elsewhere. I myself only watched his testimony off and on, and taken as a whole it confirmed for me that it’s going to be hard to nail Donald Trump on anything. As explosive…
New Study Confirms That Tariffs Are Bad
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been awhile since I renewed my neoliberal shill membership, so let’s do that today. Over at NBER, a quartet of authors examine evidence from the past half century about the effect of raising and lowering tariffs. Why? They claim it’s because no one has…
Michael Cohen Suggests Trump Lied About His Taxes Being Under Audit
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As he launched his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump staunchly refused to release his tax returns, despite decades of tradition of presidential candidates releasing them to show voters they had nothing to hide. At the time, Trump fixer Michael Cohen told reporters…
Michael Cohen Accused Trump and His Family of a Lot of Crimes Today
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During stunning testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday, Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer, called his old boss “a racist,” “a con man,” and a “cheat” while detailing a laundry list of lies by Donald Trump. But…