Ex-Trump Campaign Aides Are Lobbying for Bosnia’s Pro-Russian Separatist Party
Corey Lewandowski with Zeljka Cvijanovic, prime minister of Republika Srpska, in the Trump Tower Hotel on July 25Government of Republika Srpska Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Representatives of a Russian-backed Serbian separatist party in Bosnia, whose leader has been sanctioned by the Treasury Department, have been courting Trump administration officials…
The Spike in Immigration Prosecutions Is Causing Other Crimes to Go Unpunished
Central American asylum seekers wait as Border Patrol agents take them into custody in June near McAllen, Texas. John Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration’s push to prosecute people for crossing the border without authorization is limiting the government’s ability to prosecute people who commit other crimes, according…
Mexico Is Sending Hundreds of Firefighters to Help Battle Blazes in Canada
Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Mexico has deployed over 300 of its firefighters and technicians to Ontario during the past two weeks, to help battle forest fires menacing the province.…
We Asked a California Water Expert to Make Sense of Donald Trump’s Moronic Wildfire Tweets
President Donald Trump at a White House “Made in America” showcase in July 2017 Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With California’s latest wildfires claiming a seventh victim Sunday, President Donald Trump has yet to tweet condolences to those affected by these catastrophic and all-too-familiar disasters. Several thousand…
In New York, Capitalism Has Become Too Much of a Good Thing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Support for free market capitalism has its limits, and those limits always tend to be the same: When capitalism gets so free that it starts to affect me, I don’t like it so much anymore. For example, when Uber drivers were only destroying the livelihoods…
Betsy DeVos Is Making Life Harder for Students Screwed Over by Predatory For-Profit Schools
United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in July.Olivier Douliery/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Under the Obama administration, the Education Department made it a top priority to curtail predatory practices by for-profit colleges. It investigated and sanctioned schools…