In a properly functioning United States, the Justice Department operates independently of the White House. This hasn’t been the case since President Trump took office. For nearly two years, he harassed his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for recusing himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation, before eventually forcing him to …
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President Trump loves to talk about jobs. “JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” he tweeted in February. “JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!” he added in April. He emphasized the point earlier this month, tweeting, “JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” Donald Trump was back at it again on Wednesday, touting news that GM is selling its Lordstown, Ohio, …
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In the absence of any meaningful action from Washington to address the increase in American mass shootings involving assault weapons, some states, like Massachusetts, have taken measures of their own to ban high-capacity guns within their borders. And a recent ruling by the First Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a …
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One of the only consistencies of American politics in 2019 is that more or less every week a new Democrat has announced they’re running for president. The latest to do so is Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who made it official Monday morning. He’s the 19th Democrat to officially announce their …
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Thursday morning on a single charge of conspiring to hack a government computer. The charge was filed last year by the Department of Justice, and stems from his involvement in a 2010 scheme to help Chelsea Manning break a password to a Department of …
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Mike Gravel was a Democratic senator from Alaska from 1969-1981. He’s currently 88-years-old and, reportedly, thinking about running for president. On Tuesday night, “#Gravel2020” popped up out of nowhere on the long-dormant @MikeGravel Twitter account. A few minutes later, a post laid out what it claimed were Gravel’s presidential intentions. …
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First-ballot hall-of-fame criminal Paul Manafort has been indicted yet again. On Wednesday morning, the Manhattan district attorney’s office charged President Trump’s former campaign manager with 16 state felonies, including mortgage fraud, falsifying business records and more. The indictment was announced almost immediately after Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Manafort to …
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Four years ago this month, Donald Trump tweeted about evolving circus norms. “Ringling Brothers is phasing out their elephants. I, for one, will never go again. They probably used the animal rights stuff to reduce costs.” Just over three months later, Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United …
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In a wide-ranging interview with The Root, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), defended her decision to support a controversial bill that closed online marketplaces for sex, but said the services that adult sex workers once advertised on those sites should be legal. “I think so. I do,” the former prosecutor replied …
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Virginia’s problematic governor, Ralph Northam, who admitted to wearing blackface as part of a Michael Jackson costume in 1984 after first admitting, then denying he was pictured in blackface or a KKK robe in his medical school yearbook, sat down with Gregory S. Schneider of the Washington Post for the …
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