Showing posts with label Political News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political News. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2018

Dr. Joel Kovel, a Founder of Ecosocialism, Is Dead at 81

[ad_1] Dr. Kovel metamorphosed from a conventional therapist into a Marxist who abandoned the medical profession as too corporate an...

Trump Exaggerates Mueller Team’s Ties to Obama and Democrats

[ad_1] Fact Check of the Day President Trump claimed “all these investigators” are Democrats — an overstatement — and incorrectly said that ...

Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller’s Investigators

[ad_1] And yet, Mr. Vekselberg, a native of Ukraine, has long-running business ties to the United States. He founded Renova in 1990 as a Rus...

2 F.B.I. Officials, Once Key Advisers to Comey, Leave the Bureau

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Two top F.B.I. aides who worked alongside the former director James B. Comey as he navigated one of the most politicall...

Trump Is Said to Know of Stormy Daniels Payment Months Before He Denied It

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film ...

The Biggest Stories in American Politics This Week

[ad_1] Be they reports on the questions the special counsel plans to ask President Trump or more revelations about a payment made to Stormy ...

N.S.A. Triples Collection of Data From U.S. Phone Companies

[ad_1] Still, the large and growing volume of data gathered shows that the N.S.A. continues to collect significant amounts of inform...

Pence’s Doctor Resigns as White House Medical Shake-Up Continues

[ad_1] White House officials and others familiar with the situation said the circumstances surrounding Dr. Jackson’s fall from grace...

Jobless Rate Looks Like Old Times, but the Economy Doesn’t

[ad_1] The last time the unemployment rate fell below the 4 percent threshold was in 2000, during a period of frenetic activity remembered a...

Caught in the Theranos Wreckage: Betsy DeVos, Rupert Murdoch and Walmart’s Waltons

[ad_1] Even some of the world’s richest people may get duped, according to newly unsealed documents in a lawsuit filed on behalf of investor...

The Iowa governor just signed the nation’s most extreme abortion ban into law – ThinkProgress

[ad_1] Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed the country’s most restrictive abortion bill into law Friday, outlawing the procedure once a “...

An Ohio Senate Candidate Cloaks Himself Uncomfortably in Trump Garb

[ad_1] “The reason why the president endorsed me and asked me to run is he wants somebody who can help him get his agenda done, not ...

Working for Trump, Giuliani Attacks His Law-Enforcement Roots

[ad_1] Mr. Giuliani’s verbal strikes began on Wednesday night when he appeared with Sean Hannity on Fox News and declared that the F.B.I.’s...

Trump returns to original racist attack on Mexican immigrants at NRA convention – ThinkProgress

[ad_1] President Donald Trump harkened back to the racist attack he made on Mexican immigrants on the first day of his campaign in the ...

Tough Choices, and Criticism, for Emily’s List as Democratic Women Flood Primaries

[ad_1] “It becomes a kind of Catch-22,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. “On...