Donald Trump Was In the Room
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Did Donald Trump personally meet with David Pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer, to ask him to pay hush money to women he’d had sex with? Yesterday I was unsure about this because I’d read it in the Daily Mail, not the most reliable source…
Three Cheers For New Jersey’s Appalling Gerrymandering Law
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New Jersey Democrats are showing some of the same political ingenuity that we’ve typically seen only from Republicans in the past: Legislative power brokers across the country have long designed district lines in back-room deals that entrenched their control for…
Marco Rubio Has Some Fresh New Ideas For Us
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Marco Rubio wants to bring back the American Dream. Here are three excerpts from his essay in the Atlantic today: More business tax cuts: I will soon introduce a plan to expand and make permanent the full-expensing provisions from last…
We’re Returning to the Middle Ages
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Canada’s detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is turning out well: China has significantly upped the ante in its diplomatic standoff with Canada, not just detaining two Canadian citizens but accusing them of serious crimes — charges that could result in their imprisonment for months…
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Did Michael Flynn Try to Strike a Grand Bargain With Moscow as It Attacked the 2016 Election?
Michael Flynn leaves a federal courthouse following a status hearing in his case.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In early December, special counsel Robert Mueller, in preparation for the upcoming sentencing of Michael Flynn, submitted two memos outlining his recommended punishment for President Donald Trump’s former national security…