Trump Wants to Let Your Boss Take Away Your Birth Control
The Trump administration is considering a broad exemption to Obamacare’s mandate on contraceptive coverage, according to a leaked draft of the proposed rule published by Vox on Wednesday. Since 2011,...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s White House Counsel Has One Main Job—And He’s Failing At It
Donald McGahn, like all White House counsels who have served before him, has a broad portfolio but one fundamental charge: to keep his boss, the president of the United States, out of trouble. To say...
View ArticleHow Trump’s War on Free Speech Threatens the Republic
On May 17, while delivering a graduation speech to cadets at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, a scandal-plagued President Donald Trump took the opportunity to complain, yet again,...
View ArticleTrump’s Tweets Threaten His Travel Ban’s Chances in Court
President Donald Trump began the week with a barrage of early-morning tweets blasting the courts for blocking his travel ban executive order. But in doing so, he may have just made it more likely that...
View ArticleThe Intercept Discloses Top-Secret NSA Document on Russia Hacking Aimed at US...
On Monday, the Intercept published a classified internal NSA document noting that Russian military intelligence mounted an operation to hack at least one US voting software supplier—which provided...
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Republican Congressman on Suspected Islamic Radicals: “Kill Them All”
In response to the London terror attack, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) had an extreme proposal: kill anyone suspected of being an Islamic radical. On his campaign Faceboook page, Higgins, a former police...
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How Trump and His Allies Have Run With Russian Propaganda
The concept is straight from the Soviet playbook: Plant false information and use it to influence the attitudes of another country’s people and government. This “active measures” technique from the...
View ArticleImagine Being Pulled Off Death Row and Then Being Put Back on It
In 1994, Marcus Robinson, who is black, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1991 killing of Erik Tornblom, a white teenager, in Cumberland County, North Carolina. He spent nearly 20...
View ArticleThe Police Officer Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Has Been Fired
The police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in a Cleveland park in November 2014 has been fired, Cleveland’s police chief said at a press conference on Tuesday. The decision comes two...
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Why the 400m hurdles is one of the hardest Olympic races
Running the 400-meter hurdles requires strategic rhythm, but it’s over so quick you just might miss it. There are few single events that demand as much skill as the 400-meter hurdle race. It’s not as...
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