Protests over the death of George Floyd continued to rage throughout America on Saturday. Demonstrators clashed with hostile police forces from New York to Los Angeles, Seattle to Miami, and in dozens of cities in between. Over the course of the afternoon, evening, and into early Sunday morning, countless videos …
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After weeks of tweeting misinformation about mail-in voting, Twitter on Tuesday decided to slap a small disclaimer on some of President Trump’s posts on the subject. “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” reads a link to a string of reputable reports about proxy voting, which is practiced in both Democratic …
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While the official U.S. coronavirus death toll moves closer to 100,000 and President Trump played golf for a second consecutive day, his national security advisor heaped praise on the president saying Trump’s move to limit travel from China this winter “was a profile in courage.” Sunday morning on Meet the …
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In our latest quarantine episode of Rolling Stone‘s Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by leading virologist Dr. Christian Bréchot. They discuss the origins of COVID-19, how the virology and wider scientific communities are working together for solutions, how a vaccine may get developed and why he …
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It’s hard to believe anyone in the media still thinks President Trump is capable of treating national tragedies with the gravity they require, but then again, a lot of very true things about the past three four years are hard to believe. Trump has been commended for occasionally taking on …
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After President Trump got word that an intelligence official warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election to help him get re-elected, Trump berated and removed the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire. On February 13, according to reports in both the New York Times and Washington …
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Elizabeth Warren was eager to get her jabs in. The moderators at the Las Vegas debate Tuesday night set up a contrast question between front-runner Bernie Sanders and newcomer to the debate stage, billionaire former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg. Barely had Sanders begun answering the question about why …
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Mike Bloomberg‘s soon-to-be-released FEC filing will reportedly show that he’s spent more than $400 million on his presidential campaign since he entered the race in November. Unless the campaign somehow overlooked expensing some debate coaching for the 78-year-old billionaire, a touch more of that $400 million probably should have been …
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The U.S. military’s official justification of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani contradicts president Trump’s claims that the Iranian general posed an “imminent” threat to American lives. At the time of the attack in early January, Trump insisted the killing of Soleimani had thwarted “imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats …
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Six women of color who worked for Elizabeth Warren‘s presidential campaign in Nevada have left since November, according to a report from Politico. The women said they quit because they felt they were there as tokens and were “routinely silenced” and sidelined. Field organizer Megan Lewis explained to Politico why …
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