Still No Deal on DACA?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past few months, Republicans have been too busy reducing corporate taxes to bother negotiating a budget for the 2018 fiscal year (which is already three months old). Instead they keep passing stopgap bills to keep the government going for a few weeks longer.…
Trump’s Cold-Snap Tweet Is Even More Shamelessly Stupid Than You Had First Thought. Here’s Why.
People visit the Niagara Falls during extreme cold weather as sub-zero temperatures are expected across Canada and the United States on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day. Rex Features via AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Huffington Post and is reproduced…
The East Coast Is About to Get Hit by a “Bomb Cyclone”
Sub-zero temperatures are expected across the northeastern United States.Vianney Le Caer/REX/Shutterstock/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Much of the eastern United States has been assaulted by brutally cold temperatures over the last week. New Year’s Eve revelers in New York City rang in 2018 in 9 degree weather—the coldest midnight…
NATO Defense Spending Started Increasing Three Years Ago
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Susan Glasser has a long piece in Politico today about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and it’s about what you’d expect: pretty much everyone overseas thinks Trump is dumb, ignorant, and vain. They’ve responded in various ways: opportunistically when Trump is on their side (Israel, Saudi…
Australian Ambassador Told FBI About Trump Campaign Connection With Russia
Australian ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey.Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend the New York Times ran a story about the event that first sparked the FBI investigation of Donald Trump’s connection to Russia during the 2016 campaign. It turns out that campaign advisor…
Welfare “Reform” Might Be the Next Big Republican Push
Monica Winston adjusts to her tent in a tent city set up in San Diego. A Hepatitis A outbreak is one of the reasons the tent city was created.John Gastaldo via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In theory, the budget reconciliation process was intended to be used for passing…