NYT: Maybe the Nunes Memo Was a Right-Wing Scam All Along
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Baby steps: The release of the memo mattered less than #releasethememo. After weeks of buildup, the three-and-a-half-page document about alleged F.B.I. abuses during the 2016 presidential campaign made public on Friday was broadly greeted with criticism, including by some Republicans.…
The Best Book on Immigration You Will Read This Year Comes From a Former Border Patrol Agent
Beowulf Sheehan Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the beginning of his debut book, The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú sits down with his mother over a Christmastime eggnog and brandy to explain why, after graduating from college with a bachelor’s in international relations, he decided to join the…
Study: Mammals May Be Better Equipped to Adapt to Climate Change
Are W/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Project Earth/Fusion and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The story of the tortoise and the hare teaches us that slow and steady wins the race. But when it comes to adapting to changing environmental conditions, Aesop (the…
Why Donald Trump Should Fear Norwegian Immigrants the Most of All
Jane Barlow/PA Wire/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story first appeared at TomDispatch.com. Over the past couple of weeks, thanks to the president’s racist comments about Haiti and African countries he can’t even name—remember “Nambia”?—as well as the stamp of approval he awarded future immigrants from Norway, we’ve seen a surprising amount of…
Nunes Played The Press Like A Fiddle. Why Do Journalists Keep Falling For This Trick?
Mother Jones; Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a weird feeling when your organization’s reporting ends up at the center of a scandal bordering on constitutional crisis. But things have been weird, and here we are: MoJo‘s October 2016 story about the Steele dossier is a key data point…
Donald Trump Craters the Stock Market
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The stock market had a bit of a bad day today: Donald Trump didn’t mention this in his tweetbragging about the economy today, and liberals are so damn honest that every mention I’ve seen is about how this isn’t really his fault anyway. Which is…