Top Trump Fundraiser Resigns Over Hush Deal He Made with an Impregnated Playboy Playmate
Broidy and his wife, Robin, in 2015.Alex J. Berliner/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Elliott Broidy, a prominent Republican fundraiser, resigned Friday from his position as a deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee in the wake of a report that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, arranged for…
Arizona’s Governor Just Caved and Offered Teachers a 20 Percent Raise. They’re Not Satisfied.
Teachers at Tuscano Elementary School stage a “walk-in” for higher pay and school funding as they walk into school on Wednesday in Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday night, just a day after thousands of Arizona teachers staged “walk-ins” at their schools to call for better…
These Teens Just Won a Victory Over the Trump Administration in Court
Eighteen of the 21 kids and young adults suing Trump, their lawyers, and supporters pose for a photo outside the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.Amy Thomson Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “We the people are ready to leave,” sang a small choir of climate activists…
A Canadian Comments on US Health Care
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Canadians are usually pretty mild mannered, but get them on the subject of hockey or health care and they suddenly lose their shit: We have gold-plated, employer-provided family health insurance from a major US corporation and it is so totally, utterly fucked, in every single…
Today’s Roundup of Washington DC in the Trump Era
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t know how obvious this is, but I try not to spend too much time on what I think of as the Trump soap opera. You know: every tweet, every lawsuit, every piece of evidence that Trump is a moron, every news report…
The Most Important News Out of Jim Comey’s Explosive New Book
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday evening—like a thunderclap—the new book by James Comey, the Trump-fired, former FBI chief, slammed into the political-media world. Comey’s A Higher Loyalty is due out on Tuesday, but stories about what’s in the book, as was inevitable, began detonating several days ahead…