Donald Trump Wants to Waste a Lot of Money on New Border Patrol Agents
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the LA Times today, Christine Stenglein and John Hudak warn that enlarging the border patrol won’t be easy: Customs and Border Protection last year awarded a $297 million contract for assistance in recruiting and hiring the 5,000 border patrol agents President Trump believes we…
This Town Is So Toxic, They Want It Wiped Off the Map
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Annetta Coffman can name 35 people in her neighborhood who have recently died from cancer—and that includes her own family. Coffman’s mother died of cancer in 2007, and three years ago, her 18-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. “Every single neighbor I’ve had has died of cancer,” Coffman told…
The Secret to Understanding Kamala Harris
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Max-o-maticDown road 22 in Chowchilla, behind a wall of trees, impossibly green despite the brutal summer heat of California’s Central Valley, is the country’s largest prison for women, home to about 3,000 inmates. For at least a decade, no member of Congress had visited the facility—until…
Republicans Are Trying to Kill a Key Voting Rights Law
Student Anne Harris register to vote Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, at Lake Michigan College, in Benton Harbor, Mich. Herald-Palladium via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thirty years ago, the United States had a big problem. Barely half of eligible voters had cast a ballot in the 1988 presidential election—the…
Weekend Roundup: Trump at Work and Play…But Mostly Play
Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aside from the fact that he’s a political genius, what have we learned about Donald Trump this weekend? Jonathan Swan reveals that Trump’s official schedule has been pared back a bit: President Trump is starting his official day…
Quote of the Day: Yes, the President Is a Genius
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From Stephen Miller, on Jake Tapper’s State of the Union, describing President Trump: I saw a man who was a political genius…a self-made billionaire who revolutionized reality TV…hasn’t gotten the due he deserves… Miller was his usual obnoxious, hyperactive self, refusing to answer questions and…