The Unlikely Pairing of Louis Armstrong With Ella Fitzgerald Is (Still) Pure Bliss
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis ArmstrongCheek to Cheek: The Complete Duet RecordingsVerve/UMe On paper, they couldn’t be a less-promising combination: She’s a beatifically sweet chanteuse and he’s a gravelly voiced rascal. But the vocal collaborations of the sublime Ella Fitzgerald and pioneering trumpeter Louis Armstrong in…
Here’s How Trump Is Rigging Democracy at the Voting Booth
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today we’re launching a new Mother Jones video series explaining everything you need to know about efforts to undermine voting in America. We’ve covered this territory for years. In 2012, Kevin Drum detailed the GOP’s 10-year campaign to gin up voter fraud hysteria…
Federal Watchdog Says Scott Pruitt’s $43,000 Phone Booth Violated the Law
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s ethics problems keep piling up. In a legal opinion released Monday, the Government Accountability Office concluded that Pruitt’s decision to spend $43,238 on a soundproof privacy booth for phone calls in his office violated federal law. The booth’s cost…
Trump’s Syria Strike Was Constitutional
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Vox features an interview today with constitutional lawyer Stephen Vladeck: As a matter of US law, was the latest American military strike on Syria legal? Almost certainly not. To be legal, the strike would have to authorized either by some act of Congress or by…
James Comey Had Some Very Not Nice Things to Say About Donald Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When portions of James Comey’s much-anticipated memoir, A Higher Loyalty, started appearing last week, it was widely reported that the former FBI director compared President Trump to a mob boss. But in his interview with George Stephanopoulos, he went A step further, brutally calling Trump…
Read the Transcript of James Comey’s Interview About Donald Trump
Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is the transcript of James Comey’s Sunday night interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. It gets pretty deep in Comey-Trump fan-fic territory. JAMES COMEY: I stood in the entrance to the green room, which is next to the blue room, and chatted…