The Trump administration’s narrative regarding the Stormy Daniels case unraveled completely Wednesday night after Rudy Giuliani’s admission that the president repaid Michael Cohen the $130,000 used to silence the adult film star shortly before the 2016 election. Though the White House spent most of Thursday trying to untangle the factual …
Read More »Alex Jones Is Facing Two Lawsuits From Sandy Hook Families
Update: Alex Jones addressed two defamation lawsuits filed against him this week in a video posted on his YouTube channel, suggesting that the parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims took his words “out of context.” The Infowars boss claims that “ten lawsuits have been filed against us by …
Read More »The Trump-Mueller Showdown: What You Need to Know
“It’s pretty clear to me everyone in the White House knows it’d be the end of President Trump’s presidency if he tried to fire Mr. Mueller,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina yesterday on ABC’s This Week, referring to Robert Mueller, the special counsel hired last May to investigate …
Read More »How the GOP Rigs Elections
On a quiet, tree-lined street in Racine, Wisconsin, in a neighborhood known as the Danish Village for its Scandinavian ancestry, sits a two-story white house with a large American flag hanging from the porch and a pro-police “We Back the Badge” sign in the yard. It’s the home of Republican …
Read More »Bill McKibben: Winning Slowly Is the Same as Losing
If we don’t win very quickly on climate change, then we will never win. That’s the core truth about global warming. It’s what makes it different from every other problem our political systems have faced. I wrote the first book for a general audience about climate change in 1989 – …
Read More »Taibbi: New Tax Plan Contains Even More Bad News for Student Borrowers
The headline in the New York Times seemed sympathetic: “The House Just Voted To Bankrupt Graduate Students”. The piece by Erin Rousseau, a graduate student at M.I.T., detailed an insidious little virus buried in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, just passed by Republicans in the House. The law would …
Read More »It's Time to Revisit Trump's History With Women
We’re in the midst of a unique moment in modern history. Women are speaking up about the mistreatment they’ve suffered at the hands of powerful men – and people are actually listening. Whether the end result will be abacklash or aradical reconfiguration of power dynamics in the workforce is yet …
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