Jeff Sessions Appears to Be Meddling in the Russia and Clinton Probes He Vowed to Avoid
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jeff Sessions’ pledge seemed unambiguous. “I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States,” the attorney general said on March 2. His recusal came…
There’s No Such Thing as Populist Conservative Economic Policy
Zach Gibson/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at National Review, Peter Spiliakos writes that Sen. Tom Cotton’s sterling hardline performance in the immigration standoff has strengthened his chance of being president someday: He was the most effective Trump surrogate and has earned the “fighter” reputation that Cruz…
Christopher Wray Is Finally Fed Up With Trump’s War Against the FBI
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican obsession with FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is too bizarre to bother trying to explain. The nickel version is that he’s literally done nothing wrong, but details are here if you really want to torture yourself. The end result of this jihad, however,…
Vermont Just Became the First State To Legalize Pot Through Its Legislature
A man rolls a joint.Mark Allen Johnson/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The state of Vermont legalized the recreational use of marijuana on Monday, making it the ninth state to do so, and the first since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced changes to the Department of Justice’s approach to prosecuting marijuana…
Trump Slashes Jobs in Solar Industry
Dong Naide/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. America first, bitches: The Trump administration announced Monday that it would impose hefty tariffs on the cheap, imported panels that have driven the rapid expansion of solar power in the United States, a move that industry groups warned would slow the…
Devin Nunes Won’t Even Show His Infamous Memo to the Justice Department
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) won’t #releasethememo. The now infamous document was prepared by Republican staffers for the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by Nunes, and it supposedly details how the FBI…