In a classic Friday night news dump, President Trump announced that he is replacing the acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney with Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows. Mulvaney held the position for 14 months and will now serve as the U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland. Meadows, …
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The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear its third major case on the Affordable Care Act by granting an appeal brought by Democratic states. The appeal stems from a case brought by Republicans in an attempt to get the courts to strike down Obamacare entirely. Arguments will …
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WASHINGTON — Presidential debates moderated by cable-news personalities tend to produce the same, tired questions over and over: Candidate A, why Candidate B is wrong/unprepared/ill-equipped to lead the country? Followed, inevitably, by: Candidate Y, how do you respond to Candidate X? Or there’s the perennial classic: Are you going to …
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Almost $16 billion of the $20 billion that was allocated for disaster recovery for Puerto Rico following two hurricanes in 2017 was finally released this week by the Trump administration. According to NPR, the Department of Housing and Urban Development had withheld funds, claiming concerns of alleged mismanagement and corruption. …
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After receiving criticism, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced through her campaign that she will be returning funds donated to her by Central Park Five prosecutor Linda Fairstein. Fairstein has been criticized harshly as recent events, including Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us, which dramatized the lives of the men accused …
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In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Ani DiFranco. The singer-songwriter shares how she turned the raps, poems, and songs of incarcerated writers into a collaborative album, Prison Music Project. “Should you listen to this record start to finish, I …
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Donald Trump is obsessed with beingTime’sPerson of the Year. As early as 2013, he was retweeting supporters saying that he should be given the honor. And for years before he he was named Person of the Year in 2016, Trump displayed a Photoshopped Timecover in his golf clubs depicting himself …
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After a month of closed-door depositions, Democrats in the House of Representatives last Thursday wrapped up two furious weeks of public impeachment inquiry hearings, featuring 12 witnesses who delivered a wealth of revelations. Yes, there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine. Yes, President Trump was involved. Yes, it’s all …
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President Trump is not happy about the contents of the whistle-blower complaint released to the public Thursday morning. He’s so mad, in fact, that he fantasized about a few rather extreme punishments for the people responsible. The report includes several damning revelations, including details of how Trump pressured Ukraine to …
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In 2007, the U.S. government made a bold promise: Graduates who chose to dedicate a decade of their lives to public service rather than chase more lucrative job opportunities would, at the end of those ten years, have the remainder of their student debt wiped away. But in 2018, when …
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