Afghanistan Forces Intimidate, Rob US-Hired Contractors
Reading Time: < 1 minute Afghan army personnel stole over $780,000 worth of equipment from local contractors hired by the US, often at gunpoint.
Young Leaders Urge Congress to Take Action on Climate Change
Reading Time: 3 minutes America’s youngest generation took to Capitol Hill this week to tell policymakers it’s time to act on the climate crisis.
Mueller’s Problem: Trump Eats Evidence for Lunch
Reading Time: 2 minutes I could never understand why anyone would expect President Donald Trump to leave behind evidence of collusion with Russia. After all, Trump eats evidence.Former employee Omarosa Manigault Newman witnessed him indulging in this unusual diet after a meeting with Michael Cohen. In her book, Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House, she wrote, Read More
The Great Con: In Missile Defense, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Reading Time: 8 minutes Happy Talk about Killing Enemy Missiles Sounds Like a Plan to Strike First
The Mueller Report: The Dangers of Getting Too Close
Reading Time: 5 minutes Crawling through the weeds at ground level, investigative journalists find amazing things — then sources evaporate.
Sex, Blackmail, and Jeff Bezos
Reading Time: 3 minutes The nation is now agog over a sex and blackmail scandal that involves two of the more famous publishers in the world — Jeffrey Bezos, owner of Amazon and the Washington Post, and David Pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer. By now you know the bare — and I do mean bare — outlines of Read More
Is Another State Ready to Reject Disenfranchisement?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Iowa may be next in line to restore former felons’ voting rights.
Why Trump Won’t Back Down on Shutdown
Reading Time: < 1 minute During his entire life, Donald Trump has stiffed government whenever he could. So why should a government shutdown bother him now?
Georgia Poised to Pick Vulnerable Barcode Voting Technology
Reading Time: 3 minutes Georgia is setting the stage to spend over a hundred million dollars to again purchase insecure voting machines, disregarding public and expert opinion.
Chaotic Haggling Follows Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Plan
Reading Time: 3 minutes Turkey spars with US National Security Advisor John Bolton as Russia and Iran emerge the main beneficiaries of a messy American withdrawal from Syria.