Michael Cohen, Once the President’s Trusted Fixer, Emerges as His Greatest Liability
Michael Cohen in Manhattan on April 14.Wes Bruer/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Cohen, an attorney long known as President Donald Trump’s fixer, has become Trump’s biggest headache. Cohen finds himself at the intersection of two related lines of investigation, one into the Trump campaign’s suspected coordination with…
The Second “March for Science” Is Happening Today
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The second “March for Science” is happening across the globe on Saturday. Last year’s edition drew out some 1.1 million scientists, students, and other supporters of evidence-based policy making. Organizers are expecting a much smaller turnout today, but events in support of the march are…
House Republicans Just Ramped Up Their Investigation of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
Cheriss May/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chair of the House Oversight committee, sent Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt notice that the GOP-controlled committee was expanding its investigation into Pruitt’s spending. Pruitt has recently become embroiled in a number of scandals and…
Russia Warns of “Consequences” as Putin Denounces Syria Strikes
Russian President Vladimir Putin. April 14, 2018. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced joint American, British, and French missile strikes on Syria as “an act of aggression against a sovereign state” and said he would seek an emergency meeting of the United Nations’ Security Council. “Russia condemns in the strongest…
Kevin Drum Accused of Obeying the Law
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday night I snarked that the NAEP folks—who produce the “gold standard” of student testing—couldn’t even count to two: Muphry’s Law states that “If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written.”…
After Syria Attacks, Trump Boasts “Mission Accomplished”
President Donald Trump speaks in the White House in Washington, Friday, April 13, 2018.Susan Walsh/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump mimicked former President George W. Bush in a tweet Saturday, declaring “Mission Accomplished.” A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United…