Stephen Colbert Breaks Down All the Scandals Surrounding Michael Cohen
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a difficult task keeping up with the mounting legal troubles engulfing Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer. There’s last month’s FBI raid into Cohen’s offices, Rudy Giuliani’s baffling statements confirming the president reimbursed Cohen for money to silence adult film star Stormy…
Scott Pruitt Is Trying to Fix His Ethical Nightmare With…Another Ethical Nightmare
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is facing investigations into his housing arrangements with a lobbyist, his travel expenses, and his security detail. He has authorized raises for staff in spite of being told not to by the White House, and allegedly retaliated against EPA whistleblowers. This adds up to at least…
Donald Trump’s Most Tireless Toady Sinks Yet Another Notch Lower
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes says that all this business about his subpoenas endangering intelligence sources is hogwash. Nothing he’s asked for has anything to do with any particular individual. He’s just investigating whether the Justice Department has abused the FISA court…
Congress Prepares to Undermine Trump on Trade
Two weeks before the presidential election, Donald Trump flew into a faded textile town in North Carolina and riled up the crowd over one of his campaign’s signature promises: bringing back the jobs that businesses had shipped overseas. “They wouldn’t be doing it if I was president,” Trump said to cheers. “Believe me, when they…
Pick the Right Insurer and Your MRI Will Cost $500. Pick Wrong and It Will Cost $1,800.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As we all know, prices for standard procedures in hospitals can vary by enormous amounts. Go to one hospital and your hip replacement will cost $15,000. Go to a different one and it will cost $80,000. And if you’re not insured and have to pay…
How a Tenacious Group of Puerto Ricans Brought Light Back to Their Community
A resident tries to connect electrical lines downed by Hurricane Maria in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo Oscar Carrion didn’t make the headlines—but thousands of people are grateful for the work he’s been doing. When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico and cut power on the island, Carrion and his four kids went night after…