Stunning photo shows a man casually mowing his lawn as tornado looms Had it been a painting, the artist could’ve been criticized for failing to imagine a more nuanced metaphor to capture the perils of suburban existence. “Go back to your canvas,” the instructor might say. “This garbage is too […]
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Politics
Trump Administration Returns Copies of Report on C.I.A. Torture to Congress Senators, spies and a president spent years in a pitched battle over how the history is told of one of the most controversial chapters of America’s campaign against terrorism, the detention and interrogation of prisoners in secret C.I.A. jails. […]
California and Other States Step Into the Climate Policy Void The same week President Donald Trump put America on a rogue path on climate change policy by withdrawing from the 2015 Paris Accords, California's political leaders moved aggressively in the opposite direction. State legislators approved more ambitious carbon reduction goals […]
Donald Trump: The Gateway Degenerate Last week, when voters in Montana elected Greg Gianforte to fill the state’s lone seat in the House of Representatives, even after he was recorded in a physical altercation with a reporter, many Americans — like me — were left to look on in astonished […]
Investigation Turns to Kushner's Motives in Meeting With a Putin Ally Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was looking for a direct line to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — a search that in mid-December found him in a room with a Russian banker whose financial institution […]
Why 63 Million Trump Voters Will Never Leave Trump The latest poll numbers are out. Rasmussen (the most accurate poll of the 2016 election) has Trump at 48 percent approval. It's important to note that's just about the exact same place he was at when he was elected president- just […]
Watch President Trump push a prime minister aside While walking with the NATO leaders during his visit to the alliance's headquarters Thursday, President Donald Trump pushed aside Dusko Markovic, the prime minister of Montenegro, as he moved to the front of a group of the leaders. Trump is at the […]
Greg Gianforte's defense is as important as his violent actions At the very top of the job description for "politician" — and especially so for "candidate" — is the requirement to take questions and give answers, either with constituents or reporters. This might sometimes be an uncomfortable practice. Occasionally, the […]
Sally Yates Tells Harvard Students Why She Defied Trump In a fierce, sometimes personal speech, Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general fired by President Trump for refusing to defend his travel ban, told the graduating class at Harvard Law School on Wednesday that her decision was a surprising but […]
The way President Trump signs guest books is different In Jerusalem earlier Tuesday, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, as well as (perpetual shadows) Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, were on hand at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum. The event was standard, solemn […]
