Here’s a Grammar Lesson for Internet Reporters
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week some old tweets from around 2009 “resurfaced” in which director James Gunn made some tasteless jokes about pedophilia. He was subsequently fired as director of Guardians of the Galaxy 3. A few days ago, a pilot from 2009 “resurfaced” in which director Dan…
Is the Emoluments Clause the Key to Finally Seeing Trump’s Tax Returns?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Conservative law professor David Post takes a look at Wednesday’s district court opinion in the “emoluments” case against Donald Trump and finds it oddly persuasive: The dispute centers almost entirely, at least at this stage, on the meaning of the term “emolument.” The plaintiffs assert,…
Even Donald Trump Admits His Daughter Doesn’t Work
Al Drago/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than a year after Ivanka Trump officially joined her father in the White House, it remains unclear what the senior adviser and daughter to the president does all day. While critics have long derided the first daughter for her apparent lack of purpose…
Republicans Voted to Block Jeff Sessions’ Attacks on Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Domestic Violence
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A bipartisan group of representatives in Congress voted on Wednesday to block part of the Trump administration’s latest attack on migrants entering the country as asylum-seekers. Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions used his control over America’s immigration court system to rule that people fleeing domestic and gang violence…
Chart of the Day: Military Pay Raises Since 1993
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every year the military gets a standard across-the-board pay raise. Sometimes it’s enough to keep up with inflation, sometimes it’s not. In the 26 years since 1993, the pay raise has been positive 16 times and negative 10 times after accounting for inflation. Over time,…
Paul Ryan Is Holding the Farm Bill Hostage Over Food Stamps
What a farm bill? Fine. Join me in kicking the poor. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The farm bill—once-every-five-years mega-legislation that shapes US agriculture and hunger policy—is back on the legislative agenda. The House and Senate are jockeying for position as they prepare to reconcile their…