Trump Once Again Accepts Saudi Arabia’s Denials on Jamal Khashoggi Disappearance
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump continued to repeat the denials of the Saudi Arabian government that it had any involvement in the disappearance and likely murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. After speaking with the crown prince Tuesday, the president announced that “answers” would soon be available. In…
Heitkamp Apologizes for Outing, Misidentifying Sexual Violence Victims
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who is locked in a heated reelection race with Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, ran a campaign ad in several North Dakota newspapers Sunday that listed the names of numerous women that the ad described as survivors of domestic violence,…
Will Kansas Elect Another Republican Even After the Last One Nearly Destroyed Their State?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a nice, busy, colorful chart for you: Paul Krugman was tweeting about Kansas this morning, and now that Sam Brownback’s tenure as governor is over and we have pretty complete economic indicators for his entire disastrous governorship, I figured it was time to take…
This Video Perfectly Captures How the US Failed to Combat Climate Change
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a week of near-nonstop, dire climate news, Vox published a 12-minute video today that painfully illustrates how repeatedly the US failed to make an effective stand against global warming. Beginning, fittingly, with Al Gore—”I’ve been trying to tell this story for 30 years”—the video traces the history of broken…
Saudis Finally Make the Effort to Invent a Lie
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Phil Bredesen Is Testing the Limits of What Democrats Will Put Up With
YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As his party has continued to move farther to the left, Phil Bredesen has had an increasingly uneasy relationship with it, despite being one of Tennessee’s most famous Democrats. But when the former governor and current Senate hopeful issued a statement recently that said he would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh…