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Yes, You Can Indict the President
By Walter Dellinger
All the President’s Thugs
By The NYT Editorial Board
John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment
By John Paul Stevens
Tariffs on Imports? What Exactly Is an Import?
By The NYT Editorial Board
Part three of Cambridge Analytica report makes a liar out of everyone on the Trump campaign
By
Mark Sumner
Facebook Isn’t Just Violating Our Privacy
By Noam Cohen
" Facebook can’t be allowed to be a tool for enemies of democracy because it fears that regulation could hurt its bottom line."
Stop Shielding Gun Makers
By Brad S. Karp and H. Christopher Boehning
"A bedrock principle of the American legal system is accountability for wrongdoing. Businesses that cause harm may be held legally responsible in a court of law."
New York city council, attorney general investigating Kushner company's false document submissions
By Hunter
Remember the Alamo: The Trump/Cambridge Analytica scheme to suppress votes of women and minorities
By Mark Sumner
David J. Shulkin: Privatizing the V.A. Will Hurt Veterans
By David J. Shulkin
Tough Action on Russia, at Last, but More Is Needed
By The NYT Editorial Board
"By expelling scores of Russians from the United States and 21 other countries, President Trump and allied leaders have imposed the most significant punishment yet on Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin."
Mueller Grants Immunity to Organizer of Seychelles Back Channel Meeting, Calls Him Back
By ericlewis0
Donald Trump Jr. Pushed A 'Blatantly Illegal' Project In India and That's The Tip Of The Iceberg
By ursulafaw
The Democratic candidate for governor in Maryland really is Donald Trump’s worst nightmare
A former staffer of Michelle Obama, Krish Vignarajah is the top of an all-women-of-color ticket for governor
By MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
The 2016 Exit Polls Led Us to Misinterpret the 2016 Election
By Thomas B. Edsall
"In sum, Pew’s more precise survey methods reveal that when Democrats are broken down by education, race and ethnicity, the white working class is the largest bloc of Democratic voters and substantially larger than the bloc of white college-educated Democratic voters."
A whopping 86% of RNC venue rental and catering expenditures last month went to Trump properties
By Jen Hayden
Francis, the Anti-Strongman
By Paul Elie
Team Trump’s smear campaign against Mueller gets serious: Will he survive?
Now the right launches a last-ditch crusade against Mueller’s integrity, as Trump (again) contemplates firing him
By
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Trump and Bolton’s Plan to Isolate Allies and Encourage Enemies
By Wendy R. Sherman
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Says Jared Kusher is "in his pocket".
By durrati
Senator Bob Corker admits what we've known all along: For Republicans, it's Party over country
By Barbara Morrill
America’s Warped Elections
By Michael Li and Laura Royden
"Even the strongest blue wave may crash up against a powerful structural force in American politics: extreme gerrymandering."
Putin’s Favorite Tactic Has Finally Backfired
By Kadri Liik
"The world does not yet know the full details of the Skripal poisoning, but it does not feel like waiting, as the expulsions make clear."
John Bolton spent $1.2M using Cambridge Analytica's tools to make Americans 'more militaristic'
By Mark Sumner
Breitbart, RedState respond to March for Our Lives just the way you would expect
By Meteor Blades
What Trump Is Learning From Singapore — and Vice Versa
By Kirsten Han
The Trump Administration Sabotages the Census
By The NYT Editorial Board
"In a last-minute move that would give Republicans an advantage in maintaining control of the House of Representatives, the Trump administration is reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 census."
Congress Resists the President, for a Change
By The NYT Editorial Board
"In this time of political division, the broad story line of the omnibus spending bill approved late last week is largely a heartening one."
Attorney for Moore accuser reportedly turned down $10,000 bribe from friends of Bannon and Breitbart
By Jen Hayden
Facebook Knows Everything You Do: It's worse than I thought
By DoctorWho
Ryan's Super PAC and NRCC used info hacked by Russian intelligence in ads against Democrats in 2016
By Kerry Eleveld
Trump’s Heartless Transgender Military Ban Gets a Second Shot
By The NYT Editorial Board
Ronny Jackson’s Disturbing Lack of Independence
By Norman L. Eisen and Bandy X. Lee
"If Dr. Jackson tells the president — and the country — what Mr. Trump wants to hear about his own health, how can we trust him to honestly and rigorously diagnose the ailments of the V.A., and to treat them appropriately?"
A Coup at Veterans Affairs
By The NYT Editorial Board
"But, anyway, it seems that as secretary of veterans affairs, Dr. Jackson would not be tending to Mr. Trump so much as to the right-wing billionaires Charles and David Koch and others who support privatization of veterans’ health care and other services."
Mitch McConnell, Your Female Colleagues Are Fed Up
By The NYT Editorial Board
When the former CIA chief thinks Putin owns Trump, that should concern every American
By Ian Reifowitz
Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against Trump and his lawyer gets bigger and better
By Laura Clawson
The case against Trump and Michael Cohen is 10 times stronger than the one against John Edwards
By Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza
A Colder War With Russia?
By The NYT Editorial Board
The G.O.P. Accidentally Replaced Obamacare Without Repealing It
By Peter Suderman
"But the changes also suggest that Republicans are belatedly engaging with the particulars of the law and its operation, cobbling together a not entirely coherent replacement on the fly."
New report on CIA nominee Gina Haspel may rescue her: But it shouldn’t
It seems Haspel did not oversee the torture of Abu Zubaydah. She’s still implicated in the CIA’s Bush-era crimes
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Some of Cambridge Analytica's best work was done for them—by Politico
By Mark Sumner
The worst man in America is running for Senate—and his chances aren't as bad as they should be
By Mark Sumner
Just Read FBI Deputy Director McCabe's Statement Regarding His Firing By Trump... Just Read It.
By Dartagnan
Vindictive Trump fires FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just two days before his retirement
By Jessica Sutherland
According to Christopher Steele, Russia also killed an ex-Putin adviser living in the United States
By Mark Sumner
What it means that the Russians-hacking-US-energy-grid story is being leaked in a big way now
By Karen Wehrstein
Mueller makes two points: Manafort had active ties to Russia and don't mess with the special counsel
By Mark Sumner
Robert Mueller is closing in on President Trump. Here’s proof
A witness in the probe into alleged Trump-Russia collusion was sent a subpoena requesting a wide range of documents
By
MATTHEW ROZSA
Why is Paul Manafort the sole American indicted by Mueller who hasn't flipped?
By Kerry Eleveld
Devin Nunes to donors: You got what you wanted in my Trump-Russia cover-up, now pay me
By Joan McCarter
We Can Stop the Poaching of Big Cats. Here’s How.
By Fred Launay and John E. Scanlon
"But toppling the illegal trade in big cats and their parts requires coordinated action on a global scale: enacting and enforcing strict laws that criminalize wildlife trafficking; providing livelihoods for marginalized communities coerced by criminal poaching gangs to do their dirty work; and, as quickly as possible, reducing demand for big cats and their body parts by aiming at drivers like fashion and traditional medicine."
NRA attorney who Democrats wanted to testify had 'concerns' about NRA's pipeline to Russian funds
By Mark Sumner
Conor Lamb won by running against Paul Ryan, not Donald Trump
Nancy Pelosi is widely disliked, as rookie candidate Conor Lamb figured out. But Paul Ryan is even more unpopular.
By MATTHEW SHEFFIELD
Stormy Daniels asked to preserve all things Trump-related as mounting evidence ties Trump to payoff
By Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin blew an astonishing $1 million in taxpayer money on only seven flights
By Jen Hayden
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos accused of union-busting
The union alleges that the Department of Education failed to negotiate “in good faith” with them
By NICOLE KARLIS
Vote. That’s Just What They Don’t Want You to Do.
By The NYT Editorial Board
"The integrity of democratic institutions is under assault from without and within, and basic standards of honesty and decency in public life are corroding."
This short video shows the stark intellectual difference between a global leader—and Trump
By Leslie Salzillo
Vladimir Putin’s Toxic Reach
By The NYT Editorial Board
"The attack on the former spy, Sergei Skripal, who worked for British intelligence, and his daughter Yulia, in which a police officer who responded was also poisoned, was no simple hit job."
Kimmel's shopping spree at Trump's store turns up potential violations and zero American-made goods
By Jen Hayden
ACLU sues Trump administration over separating vulnerable families seeking asylum
By Gabe Ortiz
Gina Haspel’s Rise Is No Victory for Feminism
By Mona Eltahawy
"Ms. Haspel played a direct role in the C.I.A.’s global kidnap, detention and torture operation known as 'extraordinary rendition.'”
Having a Torturer Lead the C.I.A.
By The NYT Editorial Board
Stormy Daniels' lawyer says she was physically threatened and six more women are stepping forward
By Jen Hayden
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