How a Mysterious Overseas Shell Company Used a Former GOP Congressman to Lobby Trump and Congress
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, Howard “Buck” McKeon, a former Republican congressman who chaired the House Armed Services Committee, was hired to lobby for an Albanian political party seeking access to the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. But most of his firm’s work was bankrolled…
Texas Women Prisoners Can Learn How to Type and Cook. Men Can Get a Master’s.
mediaphotos/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re locked up in Texas and want to earn a master’s degree, you’re out of luck unless you have a penis. That’s right: Although the state incarcerates more women than any other, its prison system denies female inmates access to educational programs offered…
The Fresno State Tweet Brawl Has Nothing to do With Tenure
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, Randa Jarrar, a professor at Cal State Fresno, tweeted her reaction to Barbara Bush’s death: As you might expect, this produced a wee bit of backlash. Yesterday, however, Fresno State said it would do nothing about this: Her comments, although disgraceful, are protected…
Jeff Sessions Won’t Recuse Himself From Michael Cohen’s Case
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on April 12, 2018.Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided not to steer clear of the Justice Department’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, according to a Tuesday report. Sessions’ decision not to recuse himself from the probe…
This Might Be Scott Pruitt’s Most Destructive Move Yet
AP Photo/Susan Walsh Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adopting a strategy successfully employed by the tobacco industry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a sweeping new regulation that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use in developing its regulations. The EPA administrator, who has come under fire from both…
Donald Trump Explains His Syria Policy
“Sacre bleu, what is this moron saying now? Please, not more about the crates of cash. OMG. Now it’s barrels of cash. Nobody ever told me Trump was going to be part of this job.”Christy Bowe/Globe Photos via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over lunch I was chatting with…