Trump is Reshaping the Census to Reflect His Vision of America
liveslow/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is threatening the 2020 census from every direction: Cutting its budget, scaring immigrants away from answering its questions, and prohibiting the Census Bureau from hiring the best people for the job. While we have to defend this invaluable source of…
“All at Once” May Be Screaming Females’ Best Album Yet
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Screaming FemalesAll at OnceDon Giovanni Marissa Paternoster knows how to make a racket. The leader of the window-rattling New Jersey trio Screaming Females plays vicious guitar, splitting the difference between punk fury and metal majesty, and sings with a controlled urgency guaranteed to command your…
Frustrated in Court, Trump Administration Seeks to Change the Federal Balance of Power
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at a press conference regarding opioid policy at the Justice Department last month. Shen Ting/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last April, when a federal judge in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration’s effort to ban entry to people from six Muslim-majority nations,…
“I Can’t Wait to Throw Punches at Rohrabacher.”
Democratic candidates challenging Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) at a debate in Irvine last Tuesday.Indivisible OC 48/Jon Barber Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was an hour and 40 minutes into a debate between Democratic candidates seeking to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) last Tuesday night when Harley Rouda laid his…
In Move That Surprises No One, Trump Caves In to NRA
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is such a shocker: The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide “rigorous firearms training” to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but it backed off President Trump’s earlier call to raise the minimum age…
Trump Just Lashed Out at NYT’s Report on Turmoil in His Legal Team
Brian Cahn/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Sunday morning, President Trump once again took to Twitter to lash out at the New York Times. This time, his target was the paper’s report that he met with President Clinton’s impeachment lawyer, Emmet Flood, in the Oval Office last week to discuss hiring…