Alcohol Raises Cancer Risk. Does Quitting Lower It?
South_agency/Getty Images Alcohol is a carcinogen. As Mother Jones reported last month, alcohol-related cancers are estimated to kill about 20,000 Americans every year. That depressing news prompted some readers to announce that they would quit drinking. It led others to reach out to us with an important question: Does quitting actually help? In other words, if…
Trump Team Hired Firm to “Get Dirt” on Obama’s Iran Negotiators
Colin Kahl with President Obama aboard Air Force One in 2015. The rest of Obama’s foreign policy team is now insanely jealous of Kahl, wondering why they didn’t make Trump’s enemies list.Pete Souza/The White House/ZUMAPRESS On Saturday the Guardian Observer ran a story saying that Team Trump had hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to…
Mueller Probe To Go Dark for Elections?
From the Wall Street Journal: Mueller Probe Might Have to Go Dark for Midterm Election With six months to go until November’s midterm elections, Mr. Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign…will reach a point this summer when Justice Department habits dictate that he will have to either finish his inquiries or…
Rudy Giuliani Definitely Did Not Make Things Better for Trump in this ABC Interview
ABC News Rudy Giuliani has successfully completed another bewildering interview. The most interesting parts of his appearance with ABC’s This Week fall into two categories: Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and, of course, Stormy Daniels. On the first point, Giuliani told host George Stephanopoulos that Trump didn’t have to comply with a…
A New ‘Guardian’ Report Shows Just How Far Team Trump Would Go to Discredit the Iran Deal
Cheriss May/Sipa USA/AP According to a new report from the Guardian, Trump aides hired an Israeli private intelligence firm to coordinate a “dirty ops” campaign against former Obama staffers who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal. The alleged plan was to discredit the agreement, which the president has called the “worst deal ever,” by digging up dirt on…
Stormy Daniels on Saturday Night Live Is Absolutely Perfect
YouTube The latest episode of Saturday Night Live was a star-studded event including Ben Stiller as Donald Trump’s incompetent lawyer Michael Cohen, Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump, and Martin Short as doctor Harold Bornstein. The real draw though was Stormy Daniels in the flesh—playing, of course, herself. The adult actress, who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006,…