For Once, Devin Nunes Could Face a Bumpy Election Season
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)Tom Williams/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) represents one of the safest Republican congressional districts in California: In seven of his eight elections, he has captured more than two-thirds of the vote without breaking a sweat. Yet for the first time since he…
Puerto Rico Might Ship Inmates to the Mainland to Help Solve Its Budget Crisis
Gatsi/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The government of Puerto Rico has proposed sending hundreds of jail inmates to detention facilities on the mainland, a decision that would take them away from their families, weakening the community links that activists say aid post release rehabilitation. First reported last week…
White House: Illegal Laws Can Only Be Extended for Six Months
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If Congress can’t come to an agreement on DACA, President Trump could always just extend the program a while longer. Right? White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly said Tuesday that President Trump is not expected to extend a March 5 deadline for when…
Notes Toward a Postmodern Trump
Gary M Williams/EFE via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a rally today in Ohio, President Trump said that Democrats who didn’t clap at his State of the Union address were treasonous. Over at National Review, Dan McLaughlin comments: If you watch the actual video, you can see the…
The House Intelligence Committee Just Voted to Release the Democrats’ Response to the Nunes Memo
Rep. Adam Schiff, D=Calif, addresses reporters.Alex Edelman/Zuma Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Monday to release a 10-page memo prepared by Democrats to rebut what they say are inaccuracies in an infamous memo written by aides to committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), which alleges FBI misconduct at the heart…
Bitcoin, Stock Market Both Tumbling
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things that make you go “hmmm”: I can’t say that these things are necessarily related. Presumably bitcoin is crashing because it was a Ponzi scheme all along and the air finally went out of it. The stock market isn’t crashing, but it is tumbling and…