God Said to Make the Desert Bloom, and Mormons Are Using Biblical Amounts of Water to Do It
bozhdb/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Utah is one of the driest states in the country, but you couldn’t tell by how much water its residents are using. The average American uses between 80 and 100 gallons a day. In Utah, each individual consumes approximately 248 gallons of water a day. …
Michael Cohen Just Mortgaged His Prized Trump Condo in $9 Million Loan Deal
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Michael Cohen, the longtime Trump fixer at the center of multiple presidential scandals, just mortgaged his multi-million-dollar condo in the swanky Trump Park Avenue building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as part of a $9 million loan deal related to his troubled taxicab business. Cohen’s new loan comes as he…
Trump Announces the US Will Withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal
Zach Gibson/ZUMA President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, bashing the historic agreement brokered by the Obama administration as a “horrible, one-sided” accord. The decision comes days ahead of the May 12 deadline Trump had set for renewing the accord—which its proponents consider to have been essential to…
Trump Frees Iran to Pursue Nuclear Weapons
Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua via ZUMA President Trump has officially announced the he will withdraw from the Iran deal. For something that everyone’s known for weeks or months, he sure got a lot of media mileage out of it. But I wonder if this is really true: A second person familiar with negotiations to keep the 2015…
Meet the Intellectual Dark Web
My Twitter feed is full of blather about “the Bari Weiss” article this morning, so I figured it was my duty to check it out: Here are some things that you will hear when you sit down to dinner with the vanguard of the Intellectual Dark Web: There are fundamental biological differences between men and…
The First Campaign Ad Against Devin Nunes Doesn’t Mention Two Big Things
Credit: Andrew Janz for Congress This morning, Andrew Janz, a 34-year-old Fresno prosecutor aiming to unseat Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), launched his first television ad in the closely-watched race in California’s Central Valley. Though Janz has hit hard at Nunes in the past, the new spot doesn’t mention his opponent once. Instead, the 30-second clip…