Republican Tax Cut Fuels Profit Boom for Big Corporations
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Are Today’s Young Men Slackers and Chumps?
Carlos Osorio/The Toronto Star via ZUMA I’ve mostly tried to ignore the Jordan Peterson phenomenon. In a nutshell, he appears to be an academic who got caught in a war with lefty students and now makes his living by touring the country and denouncing political correctness. There are lots of folks out there with the…
Donald Trump’s Attacks on the Justice System Are Helping This Ex-Con Coal Baron’s Campaign
On the eighth anniversary of the worst American mine disaster in half a century, Don Blankenship was camped out at a diner in Elizabeth, West Virginia, explaining to an audience of two why his recently completed stint in federal prison made him more appealing to voters. The trip to B-Bopp, a ’40s-themed joint about the…
Are Bacteria a Secret Weapon Against Eczema? These Researchers Are Hopeful.
Getty Inflammation, itching, painful skin lesions: This is everyday life for patients with atopic dermatitis, a type of eczema that affects roughly 11 percent of adults and 7 percent of children in the United States and accounts for nearly $5.3 billion in annual health care costs. Topical steroids, usually hydrocortisone ointments, are often the first…
Trump Confirms His Money Paid for Stormy Daniels’s Hush Agreement
According to Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump repaid his personal lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to keep Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who alleges she had an affair with Trump, from publicly discussing the relationship. The startling admission, made during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Wednesday evening, directly contradicts the…
The NRA Is Still Dodging Questions on Its Russia Connection
AP Photo/Mike Stewart The night before President Donald Trump spoke at the 2016 National Rifle Association convention, his eldest son met with a Russian politician who had been pitched to the Trump campaign as an “emissary” of Vladimir Putin who could set up a back channel to the Kremlin. Since then, that Russian official, Alexander…