John Dean knows what it’s like for a scandal with the power to destroy a president to stalk the White House. Dean served as White House Counsel under President Nixon and can testify to the enormous toll that lying, deflecting, hiding and obstructing took on him and his colleagues following …
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions hasn’t exactly taken a progressive stance on marijuana since taking office. Not only did the former senator from Alabamarescind an Obama-era policy aimed at curbing sentences for non-violent drug offenses, his understanding of marijuana is trapped squarely in the 1950s. In 2016, Sessions said “good …
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As the movement to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to gain traction, President Trump has gleefully co-opted the issue to argue that Democrats are weak on immigration and want to see the United States overrun with violent criminals. In the past week, he’s installed the position into …
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Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring from his seat on the Supreme Court, the court announced Wednesday afternoon. According to the release, the 81-year-old will officially step down July 31st. “It has been the greatest honor and privilege to serve our nation in the federal judiciary for 43 years, 30 of …
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WASHINGTON – The strange saga of the EPA and its no-bid contract with a Republican consulting firm that specializes in “war room style” media monitoring just got stranger. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) sent a letter on Tuesday to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt demanding more answers for …
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As the outcry over the situation at the border swelled to a deafening pitch Monday morning, President’s Trump’s mind was elsewhere. In fact, it wasn’t even within Earth’s atmosphere, where it would have been bound by pesky forces like gravity and reality. While contemplating the infinite frontier during a meeting …
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Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have released a report of “preliminary findings” about the Trump campaign’s infamous meeting with Russians at Trump Tower seeking “incriminating information on Secretary Clinton.” The report raises more questions than it answers: “We still do not know,” it reads, “the full story about the …
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Throughout the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump assured Americans that if he were to become president, he would only hire “the best people.” Trump’s ability to follow through on this promise has been undermined by a growing number of administration officials who have either resigned, been fired, been indicted or found …
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A few years before he started working for Donald Trump, and long before he gave legal advice to people like Fox News personality Sean Hannity, Michael D. Cohen had a different kind of clientele. Cohen roamed the courthouses of New York City, filing lawsuits on behalf of people with little …
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How quickly can a big, modern, technologically-advanced city be transformed into something like a giant refugee camp? We may soon find out. Cape Town, South Africa – a city with a population of more than four million people – is about to run out of fresh drinking water. Unless the …
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