Trump’s Election Commission Is Dead. But the Controversy Around It Keeps Growing.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Vice Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, at the group’s July meeting in Washington DC. Rex Features via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump dissolved his election integrity commission earlier this month, claiming that lawsuits had dragged down…
Whose “Fault” Is the Government Shutdown?
Miguel Juarez Lugo via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Why aren’t you writing anything about the shutdown?” The masses demand to know what’s up. Well, I’ve been busy with some other stuff this weekend, and anyway, I’m not even sure what to say. Let’s start with an obvious point:…
Don’t Let Anyone Fool You: There ARE Environmental Conservatives
Monica Jorge/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Todd Tanner has a pretty sweet offer for his fellow Montanans: a new shotgun in exchange for science-based evidence that he’s wrong about climate change. The conservationist uses…
A Decade After the Great Recession, We’re Outsourcing Home Appraisals to India
Manuel Romano/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports that banks are getting tired of performing actual appraisals for high-volume home loans—the kind that get packaged into mortgage-based securities—and are turning instead to less rigorous broker price opinions: Now these perfunctory valuations abound, underpinning tens…
NRA Pundit Known for Violent Rhetoric Gets High Praise From Mike Pence
Screen shot, “The Violence of Lies” Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a profile published this weekend in the Style section of the New York Times, National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch was dubbed a “telegenic warrior.” Earlier this month, Loesch was joined on her nationally syndicated radio show by Vice President Mike…
SNL Just Hit Trump Hard: Trump Is Apparently Not A “Monkey In People Clothes”
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