When President Trump signed the FIRST STEP Act last December — the first major federal criminal justice reform legislation in the past eight years — he wanted credit. He chose to take it in the form of Matthew Charles. By inviting the newly released Tennessee man to February’s State of …
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The military is once again poised receive a huge budgetary bump from President Trump, and the Democrats don’t seem interested in doing much about it. Last week, reports emerged that Trump, while touting overall spending cuts “higher than any administration in history,” was planning to ask for a $750 billion …
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Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish activist who has made headlines for galvanizing a global youth climate movement, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. On Thursday, three members of the Socialist Left Party in Norway announced they were nominating Thunberg for the honor.“If we do nothing to halt climate …
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Remember way back in February when President Trump declared a national emergency in order to fund the construction of a wall along the southern border? That’s still a thing, and with the senate getting ready to vote on a resolution to “terminate” the action, the White House is scrambling to …
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Saturday night was the annual Gridiron dinner, where politicians and media get together to rub elbows and pretend that politicians’ jokes are funny. Featured at this year’s dinner were Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Joe Kennedy (R-LA), and Ivanka Trump, who attended in place of her father. …
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Editor’s note: This interview was conducted in January, several weeks before Rep. Ilhan Omar wrote, in a since-deleted tweet, that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s threat to punish herself and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib for their criticism of Israel was “all about the Benjamins baby.” Omar publicly apologized for the …
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Thomas Friedman, metaphor Jedi, is back. After years of what’s seemed like a concerted effort to ease back on his famed use of mixed imagery, the New York Times columnist delivered a classic in, “Is America Becoming a Four Party State?” The piece is designed to set the stage heading …
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South Carolina’s senior Senator Lindsey Graham visited Face the Nation Sunday morning and told host Margaret Brennan that President Trump’s border wall is more important for kids than building schools. When Brennan told him funding could be pulled from constructing a new middle school in Kentucky and diverted to fund …
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This is the second dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who will be investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. January 30th, 10 a.m. Technology won’t save us from climate change, but it might help us understand the risks we face on a superheated planet. Case in …
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It’s been a rough month for anyone still pretending that President Trump’s relationship with Russia is on the level. The Financial Times reported on Tuesday that when Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit in November, no U.S. official was on hand to take notes. The only other …
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