Politics

The always-changing justification for the timing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s assassination has taken another turn. According to a new report from NBC News, President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead to take out Soleimani seven months ago. The directive came with one stipulation: Trump would have to give the final …

White racists have long used bombing as a tactic, but they also dropped explosives onto black people from the air. You may have learned this recently from a popular television show. I doubt sincerely that you learned it in a high school history class. The kerosene bombing of “Negro Wall …

While defending himself and President Donald Trump against accusations that they are both white supremacists, Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller said, “Donald Trump is the anti-racist president.” Miller, a guest on Fox Business on Friday night, blamed the Democratic party for his tarnished reputation, saying they “traffic in lies, …

For nearly three years, Stephen Miller has used his White House seat to orchestrate the most extreme anti-immigrant agenda in almost a century. But he hasn’t done it alone. A loose network of lawyers and advisers embedded throughout the Trump administration has worked closely with Miller to carry out the …

When you watch College Behind Bars, which began last night on PBS and concludes tonight, or any other documentary like it, please don’t say that it “humanizes” the people who are photographed. Because they’re people. Our society teaches us to consider folks like Dyjuan Tatro and Giovannie Hernandez, two of …

After a month of closed-door depositions, the impeachment inquiry against President Trump moved into its public phase last Wednesday, when George Kent, the assistant deputy secretary of state, and Bill Taylor, the top U.S. ambassador in Ukraine, testified before the House Intelligence Committee. Marie Yovanovich, the former U.S. ambassador to …

WASHINGTON — What could be more Trumpian than the lawless president attacking a witness on Twitter as she testified before Congress about how she felt threatened by earlier comments of the president’s? That’s what happened Friday morning during Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s long-awaited appearance at the House Intelligence Committee’s second public …

You’ve just suffered a major defeat, and now you’re surrounded. The enemy is gearing up for a charge. Your leaders are readying the surrender flags. Things are looking grim. So what do you do? Well, we decided to write a Google Doc. In December 2016, our Google Doc in was …

In the latest episode of our Useful Idiots podcasts, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper chat with guest Abby Martin on her experiences as an independent journalist in a culture that silences dissenting voices. Martin’s debut film, Gaza Fights for Freedom, was filmed during the Great March of Return protests and the ensuing …

Mark Zuckerberg is an awkward guy. This is true when he’s giving tours of his house, it’s true when he’s live-streaming himself smoking meats, and it’s especially true whenever Congress is grilling him about how the social media network he created to keep tabs on the relationship status of his …