Trump Said ISIS Has Been Defeated in Syria. That’s News to His National Security Team.
Leon Neal/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s baffling decision to withdraw US forces from Syria provided critics and allies with another reason to doubt promises made by the president’s national security team—as Trump’s claim that ISIS has been “defeated” was quickly contradicted by his own aides. In September,…
Trump Will Force Asylum-Seekers to Wait in Mexico
Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday announced that asylum-seekers who arrive at the US-Mexico border will be forced to wait in Mexico while their cases are decided, a process that can take years. The plan is the most aggressive step yet in the…
17 Great Fiction Reads to Take Your Mind off Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Between your pinging cellphone, America’s bitter politics, and the orange one’s deranged tweeting habit, you would be forgiven for wanting to divorce yourself from reality for a while. So, at the end of this very long year, we have just the answer you need: Xanax.…
How Fascist Sympathizers Hijacked Reddit’s Libertarian Hangout
Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For years, Reddit’s most popular libertarian board, r/Libertarian, eschewed formal moderation in a bid to stay true to its ideology’s anything-goes ethos. But over the course of the last several weeks, Reddit users with a history of advocating white supremacy and state…
After Voters Passed Progressive Ballot Initiatives, GOP Legislatures Are Trying to Kill Future Ones
Demonstrators at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing protest the lame-duck legislative session.Dale G.Young/Detroit News/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last month, voters in Michigan overwhelmingly approved ballot initiatives to enact automatic and Election Day registration, create an independent redistricting commission to prevent gerrymandering, and legalize recreational marijuana. It was a…
Here’s the Letter of Intent for the Trump Moscow Project
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just for the record, here’s a copy of the letter of intent that Donald Trump signed on October 28, 2015, expressing his interest in building a “first class” Trump-branded development in Moscow: This was signed four months into the Republican primary campaign, when Trump was…