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…
Subpoenas Are Coming. Trump Is Lashing Out. Will the Media Do Its Job?
Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the unseen rituals of journalism each election night is the Hail Mary prewrite—the story you prepare for an election outcome that you don’t expect but must prepare for anyway. In November 2016, it was the “Trump wins” story, and no…
Jeff Sessions’ Long National Nightmare Is Finally Over
Chip Somodevilla/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I just woke up from one of my dex-induced 3-hour naps to learn that this has been a bad week for people named Sessions. The first to go was Rep. Pete Sessions, son of former FBI director William Sessions, and today…
The Beverage Industry Has Figured Out a Legal End Run Around Soda Taxes
FangXiaNuo/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Voters in the state of Washington just said yes to a measure that will prevent cities there from enacting “soda taxes”—levies on sugar-sweetened beverages, like the one that passed in Seattle earlier this year. Oregon, meanwhile, said no to a similar initiative. Both measures,…
Matthew Whitaker, the New Acting Attorney General, Was Obsessed With Clinton’s Emails
Then-Iowa Republican Senate candidate Matthew Whitaker before a debate in 2014.Charlie Neibergall/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In January 2016, Matthew Whitaker drew up a list of eight questions he wanted NBC’s Lester Holt to ask Hillary Clinton at a Democratic presidential debate. Seven of them were about her emails. “How can people…
In New Attorney General, Trump Will Be Looking for a Loyal Defender Against Democrats
President Trump and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the White House in March 2017 for a listening session on the opioid epidemic. Shawn Thew/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In choosing his next attorney general, President Donald Trump is likely to put one qualification above the rest: loyalty…