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Mr. Trump Squanders the World’s Trust
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
Head of the DEA to resign, does not believe Donald Trump respects the laws of the land
By Walter Einenkel
Everyone Wants to Reduce Drug Prices. So Why Can’t We Do It?
By JAY HANCOCK
Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature
By
Zeynep Tufekci
"What does it take to advertise on Facebook to people who openly call themselves “Jew haters” and want to know “how to burn Jews”? About $10 and 15 minutes, according to what the investigative nonprofit ProPublica recently uncovered."
WaPo: "Republican civil war" brewing, as establishment GOP now realize Trump can't protect them
By Keith Pickering
Trump's DHS wants to collect the social media information of immigrants and U.S. citizens
By Gabe Ortiz
Mike Pence comes up with dumbest argument against NFL players yet, and that is saying something
By Hunter
End closed-door deals in D.C.: How to fix Congress
By Patrick Murphy
"At the top of the list is the gerrymandering of congressional districts, which causes the extreme elements of both parties to dominate the discussion in Washington."
Kneeling Against Authority
by The Big Weasel
Can the Supreme Court Fix American Politics?
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
'We might not recover': Neil deGrasse Tyson gets emotional and sounds the alarm. All the alarms.
By Jen Hayden
DREAM Act is an economic boon, increasing U.S. GDP by up to $1 trillion over next decade
By Gabe Ortiz
Robert Reich skillfully conveys faster way to abolish Electoral College & avoid another Trump
By Leslie Salzillo
Politics Has Always Had a Place in Football
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
"In the pros, and even more at the college level, football was not incidental to the doctrine of segregation and the ideology of white supremacy. It was one of the pillars on which they rested."
Members of Congress are calling on HHS chief to resign after unprecedented use of government jets
By Jen Hayden
MISSING IN INACTION: WHY HASN'T TRUMP ORDERED THE MILITARY TO PUERTO RICO?
By Kent Fager
House Intelligence Democrat warns Trump is 'prepping' his base for firing Mueller
By Kerry Eleveld
The Day the Real Patriots Took a Knee
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
Do Republicans Really Care About the Deficit?
By JARED BERNSTEIN
"Though America really doesn’t need a tax cut — demographic pressures alone suggest the need for more, not less, future revenues — President Trump and the Republican majority want one. But they don’t want to pay for it, which means the budget deficit is going to rise."
Puerto Rico Is American. We Can’t Ignore It Now.
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
The richest Americans have surpassed a wealth milestone
The disproportionate amount of money controlled by the top 1 percent has reached a historic high
By MATTHEW ROZSA
U.S. senators and a Fox News anchor tried to take down Jimmy Kimmel. Big mistake.
By Jen Hayden
How Big Banks Became Our Masters
By RANA FOROOHAR
"The big problem is that our banking system would no longer be recognizable to Adam Smith, who believed that for markets to work, all players must have equal access to information, transparent prices and a shared moral framework."
How Gun Controls Work Beyond Washington
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
Trump caught in huge lie when trying to explain why healthcare repeal failed
Trump says that a senator’s hospitalization (which never happened) was why his health care bill failed
By CHARLIE MAY
A Boondoggle Masquerading as Tax Reform
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
Finally, Busted!
By Greg Palast
"Last week, the NAACP and League of Woman Voters filed a lawsuit to put an end to the state of Indiana’s use and abuse of Crosscheck."
Private Emails, Private Jets and Mr. Trump’s Idea of Public Service
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
Senator: someone needs to be fired over $65 million plane
The plane, which never flew a mission in Afghanistan, is part of a pattern of billions in military waste.
By MEGAN ROSE, PROPUBLICA
The Trump Fog Machine
By
Timothy Egan
"The effect of this presidency-by-horrors is to induce amnesia in the public, as if we’d all been given a memory-loss drug."
President Trump’s War on Science
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
Well, What Should Hillary Clinton Do Now?
By SUSAN CHIRA
"Yet Hillary Clinton, as ever, doesn’t fit neatly into any category. She has money and plenty of exposure and the determination to be heard and make a difference. The question is how and where."
The Problem of ‘Living in the Present’
By Kieran Setiya
"The idea that one can make oneself invulnerable to what happens by detaching from everything but the present is an irresponsible delusion."
Lawsuit says Fox News leaked rape victim's affair after reporting allegations against show host
By wagatwe
5 Questions About Single-Payer Health Care
By
David Leonhardt
Time to Restrict the President’s Power to Wage Nuclear War
By JEFFREY BADER and JONATHAN D. POLLACK
"Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim appear to believe that bombast serves their domestic needs. Both seem to think that they can dominate and intimidate through the direst of threats. However, words can easily have consequences that neither leader seems to grasp."
Michael Flynn's racist, sexist, conspiracy theory-spouting son is new focus of Russia investigation
By Mark Sumner
Donald Trump took $107 million promised to charities ... and kept it
By Mark Sumner
Kris Kobach and His 5,313 Fraudulent Voters
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
While Obama humanizes undocumented immigrants and calls them Americans, Trump calls them vomit
By Ian Reifowitz
Joe Biden: Reclaiming America’s Values
By JOE BIDEN
When History’s Losers Write the Story
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
"That is, in part, because the loser was allowed its own interpretation. The South, facing catastrophic loss of life and mass destruction on a European scale, wrote its own history of the war. It cast itself as an underdog overwhelmed by the North’s superior numbers, but whose cause — a noble fight for states’ rights — was just.
It's happening: Trump is gaining cash based on his policies as president
By Hunter
Trump’s Selective Devotion to Law and Order
By
Andrew Rosenthal
Neil deGrasse Tyson, In One Brilliant Tweet, Destroys Climate Change Deniers Favorite Argument
By First Amendment
The Forgotten Victims of Agent Orange
By
VIET THANH NGUYEN AND RICHARD HUGHES
"Records from Agent Orange lawsuits indicate that both the military and the chemical companies involved were well aware, early on, of the dangers of dioxin, so much so that our government terminated the program three years before the war’s end."
Senators in Search of a Foreign Policy
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
Trump aide reportedly suppressed study proving refugees contributed $63 billion more than they cost
By Jen Hayden
Michael Flynn wants you to help pay his legal bills
Michael Flynn reported earning more than $1 million per year, but needs a hand
By
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD
Trump Appellate Nominee Says Her Religion Supersedes the Constitution
By Rmuse
Morality Is Negotiable for Mr. Trump
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
The Failing Trump Presidency
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
California’s big pushback: Golden State sets the standard for resistance to Trump agenda
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
We are missing the real story about Trump's collusion with white nationalists
By Egberto Willies
Hate That Doesn’t Hide
By
Roxane Gay
"For the past week, I have seen hate thriving in plain sight. I am disgusted. I am angry. I am worried."
Trump’s Arts and Humanities committee just resigned in protest
By GABRIEL BELL
Nation discovers evangelicals have no moral compass as business leaders pick up the slack
By Kerry Eleveld
Steve Bannon Is Overrated
By MATTHEW CONTINETTI
"Mr. Bannon is the latest in a long line of political advisers whose reputations are inflated after an election victory."
College Football Is Here. But What Are We Really Cheering?
By
Erin C. Tarver
"Beyond what increasingly appear to be the inherent and horrifying physical effects of long-term play on its athletes, there is the unavoidable fact of their exploitation."
Robert Mueller adds Donald Trump Jr. to those in the focus of his investigation
By Mark Sumner
Trump’s defense of Confederate traitors is more than a culture war — it’s a subversion of American democracy
By BOB CESCA
Last night, Jon Stewart destroyed Trump’s response to Charlottesville
By ALESSANDRA MALDONADO
Why Lee Should Go, and Washington Should Stay
By JON MEACHAM
See the stinging masterpiece of a resignation letter the President's Arts Committee sent to Trump
By Jen Hayden
Why Vietnam Was Unwinnable
By
KEVIN BOYLAN
The Boring Little Budget Office That Trump Hates
By
Steven Rattner
Welcome to the Breitbart era: Steve Bannon’s former site is the new monarch of right-wing media
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
The President Turns on His Own
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
Donald Trump’s Identity Politics
By Thomas B. Edsall
"Nonetheless, several factors came together in a peculiar way, with serious electoral consequences. Millions of white voters began to see themselves more openly not as white supremacists but as white identified."
Donald Was a Creep. Too Bad Hillary Couldn’t Say It.
By
Jill Filipovic
Where the “anti-45″ anti-Trump symbol in your feeds came from
By ALESSANDRA MALDONADO
Say No to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Mr. Trump
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
A Pardon for Arpaio Would Put Trump in Uncharted Territory
By MARTIN H. REDISH
What Trump Got Wrong on Charlottesville
By ERICK-WOODS ERICKSON
Union’s Loss Is the South’s Loss, Too
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
A right-wing terrorist tried to blow up a government building: report
By MATTHEW ROZSA
"An alleged right-wing terrorist in Oklahoma has been arrested for attempting to detonate what he believed to be a massive bomb outside of a bank."
Trump's 'legal' immigration plan would cost nearly 5 million jobs, according to his alma mater
By Gabe Ortiz
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