Stephen Colbert Revives “Stephen Colbert” to Defend Michelle Wolf
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you haven’t seen Stephen Colbert’s legendary 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner appearance where, playing his right-wing blowhard character “Stephen Colbert,” he roasts President George W. Bush to his face, then stop reading and immediately go to the bottom of this post and watch…
Trump Says Mueller’s Leaked Questions Don’t Involve Collusion. (Actually, They Do.)
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump seized on a collection of leaked questions special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly hopes to ask the president, claiming Tuesday morning that the list contains no queries about collusion between his campaign and Russia. The list, which was obtained by the…
Cambridge Analytica Has a New Defense: We Didn’t Do All Those Things We Said We Did
Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix leaves his office in central London on March 20, 2018.Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Moldovan-born American academic named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan made a defiant appearance before the UK Parliament last week to accuse Facebook of using him as a scapegoat in the…
“We Wouldn’t Need the Suicide Hotline If Dairy Farmers Were Getting Paid What They Deserve”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brenda Cochran was a self-described “city girl” before she married her husband in 1973. He was a dairy farmer, so she joined him on a small farm in Pennsylvania. They’ve been working together since 1975. Cochran says that if she’d known how difficult dairy farming…
Trump Says He’s “Super Interested” in a Universal Flu Vaccine. His Budget Says Otherwise.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump, who in the past was skeptical of immunizations, has now expressed enthusiasm about the development of a universal flu vaccine. On Monday, in a STAT News interview with Bill Gates, the philanthropist reported that in a meeting last month, he had told Trump…
Wye Oak’s New Album Is Thoughtful and Haunting
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wye OakThe Louder I Call, The Faster It RunsMerge Singer Jenn Wasner has made music under various guises, including Flock of Dimes and Dungeonesse, but her most enduring and productive project is her partnership with fellow multi-instrumentalist Andy Stack in the duo Wye Oak. The…