A new indictmenthanded down Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein against a dozen Russian GRU military intelligence officersexposes new details of the hacking of high-level Clinton campaign officials as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). A result of the special counsel …
Read More »
Last week, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Army is discharging reservists and recruits who joined the military as part of a promised path to citizenship. I’ve spent time since then trying to remember if I served in the Army with anyone who wasn’t a U.S. citizen. And the …
Read More »
Following months of corruption allegations, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned on Thursday. The news came in the form of two tweets from President Trump. EPA Deputy Andrew Wheeler, a former coal-industry lobbyist, will take over for Pruitt on an interim basis. By the time he resigned, Pruitt was …
Read More »
It’s just after 9:00 P.M. on Tuesday as the polls close in New York’s 19thcongressional district. Jeff Beals’ inner circle huddles over empty pizza boxes, laptops and phones at their campaign headquarters – a converted tattoo parlor – in downtown Woodstock. Across the street, a watch party buzzes on optimistically …
Read More »
After maintaining that immigrant family separation was the result of a Democratic law that could only be changed through congressional action, President Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday by signing an executive order aimed at keeping families together as they are detained at the U.S.-Mexican border. “We’re going to have strong, …
Read More »
Over a recent lunch in Chicago, George Papadopoulos searches for words strong enough to describe the importance of his wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos. “She really has saved my life,” says George, the Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last year. “After the arrest – …
Read More »
If Democrats want to regain control of Congress in the 2018 midterms, they’re going to need to pick up 24 seats that are currently controlled by Republicans. Nowhere can the party gain as much ground as in California, which holds its primary on Tuesday. The most populous state in America …
Read More »
Imagine a bull – or a bull’s handlers – wanting a matador to wave a red muleta in front of the charging beast. That’s one way to look at Monday night’s leak of the questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly wants to ask President Trump as part of the growing …
Read More »
On Wednesday, the Senate passed the Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act by a bipartisan consensus of 97-2. SESTA amends Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, a federal provision which protects online publishers – from Facebook to The Erotic Review – from being held liable for third-party user posts on …
Read More »
Despite calling for bipartisanship and national unity during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday (that is after almost an hour of self-congratulating), Trump still brought up his most divisive, discriminatory policy yet: His “four pillars” for immigration reform. Along with ending both the family reunification and lottery …
Read More »