Stop It. Stefan Halper Wasn’t Spying on Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Why is Donald Trump using the word SPY every ten minutes or so even though there’s zero evidence that Stefan Halper was spying in any normal definition of the word? A friend of Trump explains: Trump told one ally this week that he wanted “to…
We Don’t have a Retirement Crisis. We Have a Young People Crisis.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The St. Louis Fed published a short note today comparing the net worth of millennials in 2016 vs. Gen Xers in 2001. Here it is: Today’s millennials have fewer assets and more debt, and their net worth is therefore considerably lower than Gen Xers at…
Even By Crazytown Rules, North Korea Isn’t Making Sense
Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The latest: JUST IN: North Korea state news says a foreign ministry official will suggest the country’s leadership reconsider U.S.-North Korea summit, says future of summit is entirely up to Washington pic.twitter.com/6h7gAK7yR4 — Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) May 23, 2018 On the…
New Documents Show Why Scott Pruitt Wanted a “Campaign-Style” Media Operation
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Internal records from the Environmental Protection Agency reveal the agency had hired a Republican firm last December to “directly support” Administrator Scott Pruitt and senior EPA officials with “an aggressive style of campaign-style” media monitoring. The EPA wanted the firm…
Key Arizona Republican Freaks Out Over “Another Generation of DACA-like People”
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a House hearing on immigration Tuesday, Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) accused most asylum seekers of immigration fraud and suggested that unaccompanied children who reach the United States are likely to become MS-13 gang members. She warned that if the asylum…
Racism Is Worse Than Anti-Racism. Why Is This So Hard?
Aaron Schlossberg hiding from the press behind his now infamous umbrella. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at National Review, Dan McLaughlin writes about Aaron Schlossberg, the New York lawyer caught on video multiple times screaming racial epithets at people: Naturally Schlossberg lit up Twitter and also provoked plenty…