“We Need The Whistles Blown”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a while now, we’ve been writing to our community of readers about the unprecedented threats that investigative journalism faces. Between political assaults and economic erosion, it’s been a pretty grim year for the news business. But there’s also been something deeply inspiring about 2017.…
Wells Fargo Accidentally Admits the Truth: The Republican Tax Bill Has No Connection to its $15 Minimum Wage
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sucking up to Donald Trump is tricky business. On Wednesday Wells Fargo announced that it was raising its minimum wage thanks to the passage of the Republican tax bill: Wells Fargo to Raise Minimum Hourly Pay Rate to $15,…
Trump Just Signed a $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich. Here’s How We Could Have Spent That Money.
Mike_Kiev/iStock/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump signed the sweeping Republican $1.5 trillion tax bill on Friday morning, ballooning the country’s deficit in order to cut taxes for corporations and America’s wealthiest households, including the president’s. Here are a few other things that sum—or far less—could have funded: When…
Republican Campaign to Smear Robert Mueller Moves Into High Gear
Pete Marovich via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From NBC News: On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics have linked to…
Shrinking. Slashing. Erasing. Ignoring. Trump’s Toolkit for Wrecking Government As We Know It.
President Donald Trump cuts a ribbon during an event on federal regulations in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. At an event last Thursday to tout his administration’s efforts to rid…
Atomic Tests During the 1950s Probably Killed Nearly Half a Million Americans
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You probably need something to cheer you up after the tax follies of this week. So how about a scholarly examination of how many Americans were killed by atomic bomb testing in the 50s? I think that should do the trick. Here’s the background. After…