A Little Bit of Lime Won’t Make This New Water-Sucking Corona Factory Go Down Any Easier
Adam McCauley Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Best enjoyed ice cold, the beers of Mexico are red-hot in the United States. Between 2013 and 2017, sales of brews from south of the border surged 44 percent, even as domestic beer sales dipped 3.5 percent. A single company benefits most from…
A Chicago Cop Is Going on Trial for the “Execution” of Laquan McDonald. This Could Be Big.
OfficerJason Van Dyke in court in March 2016.Nancy Stone/Pool Chicago Tribune/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jury selection begins September 5 in the highly anticipated trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who stands accused of first-degree murder, among other charges, in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald,…
If Only Harvard Had Awarded Trump an Honorary Doctorate…
Donald Trump striking a pose of mature statesmanship when asked for a comment following John McCain’s death.White House pool Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is Jon Chait on the not-very-surprising revelation that Donald Trump is contemptuous of people with accents and state university degrees: Deep in a Politico report…
Smart President Says Smart Thing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump was in Indiana tonight doing something for some reason and was standing in front of some people, one of whom was holding a “drain the swamp” sign that was partially obscured by a blonde head and thus appeared to say “drain the wamp,”…
Is Donald Trump Worried About Being Blackmailed?
David Pecker, owner of the National Enquirer and its infamous safe.Jennifer Podis/The Palm Beach Post/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week we all heard about “the safe,” the legendary repository of decades of dirt on Donald Trump that had been dug up and then faithfully reburied by the National…
Without Evidence, Trump Accuses NBC’s Lester Holt of “Fudging” Interview
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Thursday accused NBC’s Lester Holt of “fudging the tape” of the May 2017 interview during which the president admitted he planned to fire former FBI director James Comey regardless of the Justice Department’s recommendation, directly contradicting the White House’s initial statements.…