This 16-Year-Old Founded a “Movement of Unstoppable Youth” to Save the Planet
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Sorry, it’s homeroom,” Jamie Margolin, a 16-year-old climate activist and high school sophomore, tells me when I call for an interview. “Let me get to a quieter spot.” Margolin, who lives in Seattle, is used to juggling homework, debate club, media interviews, writing op-eds,…
The White House Personnel Office Is Just a Big Frat Party
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post reports that the White House office responsible for recruiting political appointees is a clown show: Two office leaders have spotty records themselves: a college dropout with arrests for drunken driving and bad checks and a lance corporal in the Marine Corps reserves…
George Mason Economics Department Embarrasses Itself
George Mason University Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Boudreaux earned a PhD in economics from Auburn University three decades ago. He is currently a professor of economics at George Mason University. Two days ago he wrote this in the New York Times: Not long ago an academic paper by…
Donald Trump’s Lies About the Border Wall, Explained
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steve Benen today: Trump’s lying about border-wall construction is so over the top, I’m starting to think he actually believes his own ridiculously untrue claims https://t.co/Kihuf4rVsQ — Steve Benen (@stevebenen) March 30, 2018 I won’t pretend to know what goes on in the lump of…
Andrew McCabe’s GoFundMe Just Broke $400,000
Cheriss May/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An online fundraiser that was launched Thursday to help cover former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s legal fees has surpassed $400,000, shattering the legal defense fund’s original goal of raising $150,000. And it’s only Friday. The 21-year FBI veteran was fired by the…
We Obtained Cambridge Analytica’s Post-Election Pitch to Potential Corporate Clients
Alex Milan Tracy/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of Donald Trump’s shock victory in 2016, Cambridge Analytica, the secretive data analytics firm that worked for the Trump campaign and is now ensnared in an international controversy, set out to capitalize on its connection to the new…