The Supreme Court handed down a fairly routine scheduling order on Tuesday that, at least on the surface, looks like like dozens of brief and uninteresting orders handed down by the Court every year. This order, however, contains a big hint about what may be the most important case of the current Supreme Court term. […]
The Nunes memo, released last Friday, alleges that the FBI improperly sought surveillance on a former Trump campaign adviser. But Democratic lawmakers say the Nunes memo is riddled with errors and omissions, and prepared a rebuttal memo to set the record straight. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday night to make the Democratic […]
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Tuesday said the Trump administration’s immigration proposal, which provides permanent legal protections for certain undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children, is “beyond what anyone could have imagined” — even providing protections for those who were “too lazy to get off their asses” to register for […]
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Tuesday said the Trump administration’s immigration proposal, which provides permanent legal protections for certain undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children, is “beyond what anyone could have imagined” — even providing protections for those who were “too lazy to get off their asses” to register for […]
The Winter Olympics is bringing North Korea and South Korea closer than they have been in years to a diplomatic thaw that could lead to easing military tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, but the United States continues to ratchet up tensions in the region. The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that Vice […]
Federal funding for health clinics that primarily serve the poor lapsed 129 days ago. For this Congress, it’s par for the course: the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) faced a fiscal crisis for 114 days before lawmakers acted. And like CHIP, community health centers enjoy bipartisan support. Even so, continued inaction could amount to a 20 […]
Walgreens has instituted a new policy that protects its employees and customers from discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression/presentation. The chain-wide policy follows an incident last summer when a woman was denied access to the women’s room at a Los Angeles store. On her way to LA Pride […]
Fox News keeps talking about “the memo.” But instead of the actual “dud” of a memo that House Republicans released last week, they’ve invented a non-existent memo out of some conspiracy theory fever dream to spread lies about: On Friday, House Republicans and the White House released to the public a six-page memo that alleged FBI […]
The Trump administration is taking aim at Medicaid yet again, specifically with lifetime coverage limits, according to a McClatchy report Monday evening. Just weeks after unveiling guidance that will allow states to impose Medicaid work requirements, Trump’s Health and Human Services agency is reportedly attempting to limit the number of months adults have access to […]
The U.S. Senate should be a polite membership club rather than a contentious governmental body whose balance of power shapes the lives of millions of human beings, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) argued Tuesday. Manchin went to the floor to beg his colleagues to sign a bizarre pledge of mutual loyalty to one another. “Washington will be […]
Hondurans and Nicaraguans covered by Temporary Protected Status (TPS) could face the same problem currently plaguing recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program: confusion over application deadlines. According to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), citizens of both countries who are currently covered by TPS and living in the United States must ensure […]
During a news conference on Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was asked to defend his own comments from last week about how he doesn’t think the Nunes memo has anything to do with President Trump’s efforts to undermine the Mueller investigation. Ryan, however, wasn’t interested in talking about it. Manu Raju of CNN referred […]
Doug Domenech, a top official at the Department of the Interior, worked as a political appointee at the agency during the George W. Bush administration when it was rife with corruption. The official is now coming under scrutiny for his own questionable actions as a Trump administration appointee. A month after winning confirmation to serve […]
During a speech at a factory in Ohio on Monday afternoon, President Trump accused Democrats of being “treasonous” because they had not stood to applaud him during his first State of the Union speech. In an interview with CNN’s New Day on Tuesday morning, Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) attempted to defend those remarks. “Well, no, I wouldn’t use the […]
During an interview on Good Morning America on Tuesday, Carter Page admitted that he served as an adviser to the Kremlin before joining Donald Trump’s campaign for president. But he doesn’t think the FBI had good reason to view that as suspicious. Host George Stephanopoulos read Page an excerpt of a letter he wrote in 2013 […]
New research that Attorney General Jeff Sessions used to prop up the Trump administration’s conviction that immigration feeds criminality is based on a basic data error. The paper Sessions cited is based on the kind of mistake most real scholars take great pains to avoid, as Cato Institute immigration expert Alex Nowrasteh showed Monday. Sessions should have […]
Months after rejecting a Kentucky-style work requirement for Medicaid in West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice (R) now seems to be moving in the opposite direction — with assistance from the conservative Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ally and an affiliate of the Koch-funded State Policy Network. The apparent switch is […]
By Jeremy Deaton Harassment is no stranger to the reporters, researchers and policymakers who work on climate change, but it is particularly severe for the women in those fields. Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna was labeled “climate Barbie” by the right-wing political blog The Rebel Media. Kait Parker of the Weather Channel suffered attacks from Breitbart News, which dismissed her forceful and […]
In a direct attack on the rule of law, Pennsylvania state Rep. Cris Dush (R) sent a memo to his colleagues Monday evening asking them to cosponsor articles of impeachment against five of the state’s seven supreme court justices. The justices’ crime? Striking down the state’s gerrymandered congressional maps, which allowed Republicans to win 13 […]
The school secretary cited in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s now-infamous tweet for making an additional $1.50 a week thanks to the Republican tax bill spoke to CBS News Monday, and she wasn’t exactly thrilled. “I’m really surprised, actually. [People mentioned in] the paragraph above… my quote and the paragraph below my quote got hundreds more. Hundreds,” […]
Declining coal production in many Appalachian communities is contributing to state and local governments generating less revenue to support education and other social services. This is especially true in areas where the local economy lacks diversification. With poorer education standards and a steady trend of people moving out of rural communities, areas of Appalachia are failing […]
With the defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and an uptick of violence in Afghanistan, U.S. military strategy is shifting in the Middle East and Central Asia. But the stated goals of the missions still remain a bit unclear. On Monday, the Associated Press reported that the United States has started a troop draw-down, halving […]
An Arkansas state legislator who survived cancer announced Monday that he’s running for Congress, hoping to take down his district’s current Republican representative, who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Clarke Tucker, a Democrat, told ThinkProgress Monday that his own experience with bladder cancer last year helped him realize just how real the […]
A report published last month by the Anti-Defamation League showed that the rate of killings tied to white supremacists surged during President Trump’s first year in office. Now, a new report out of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has tabulated just how many of those killings were from those affiliated with the so-called “alt-right” — the misogynistic […]
During his State of the Union speech last Tuesday night, President Trump bragged about how under his stewardship, the stock market “smashed one record after another, gaining $8 trillion in value.” Those comments were just the most recent of many examples of the president trying to take credit for a strong stock market. The Stock […]