Even By Crazytown Rules, North Korea Isn’t Making Sense
Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The latest: JUST IN: North Korea state news says a foreign ministry official will suggest the country’s leadership reconsider U.S.-North Korea summit, says future of summit is entirely up to Washington pic.twitter.com/6h7gAK7yR4 — Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) May 23, 2018 On the…
New Documents Show Why Scott Pruitt Wanted a “Campaign-Style” Media Operation
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Internal records from the Environmental Protection Agency reveal the agency had hired a Republican firm last December to “directly support” Administrator Scott Pruitt and senior EPA officials with “an aggressive style of campaign-style” media monitoring. The EPA wanted the firm…
Key Arizona Republican Freaks Out Over “Another Generation of DACA-like People”
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a House hearing on immigration Tuesday, Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) accused most asylum seekers of immigration fraud and suggested that unaccompanied children who reach the United States are likely to become MS-13 gang members. She warned that if the asylum…
Racism Is Worse Than Anti-Racism. Why Is This So Hard?
Aaron Schlossberg hiding from the press behind his now infamous umbrella. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at National Review, Dan McLaughlin writes about Aaron Schlossberg, the New York lawyer caught on video multiple times screaming racial epithets at people: Naturally Schlossberg lit up Twitter and also provoked plenty…
Last Night Was Huge for Black Women in Georgia—and Not Just Because of Stacey Abrams
McBath at a gun violence rally in 2013.Jaime Henry-White/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There was plenty for progressives to celebrate on Tuesday night in Georgia—and it was a moment that signaled a huge milestone in black women’s political power ahead of November. In a downtown Atlanta Sheraton packed with…
Russia’s Campaign to Help Trump Win Was Just the Start
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI special agent Clint Watts was tracking Islamic State terrorists and their propaganda on Twitter in 2014 when he first encountered a different kind of troll. These accounts weren’t trying to recruit fighters for jihad. They were promoting an…