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Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 11:02pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
President Donald Trump's communications director Mike Dubke confirmed Tuesday morning that he is leaving the White House after barely three months working in the tumultuous and truth-starved administration.
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 10:06pm
Betsy Karasik
As we honored and remembered over the Memorial Day weekend so many who have died for justice and freedom, I found myself inordinately haunted by the Portland, Ore., stabbing of three men who came to the defense of two young women being bullied and harassed, allegedly by a white supremacist hurling anti-Muslim slurs. Two of the men died in the attack. The third was hospitalized in serious condition.
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 10:01pm
Robert Reich
Last Wednesday, on the eve of his election to the House of Representatives, Montana Republican Greg Gianforte beat up Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the “Guardian" newspaper.
What prompted the violence? Jacobs had asked Gianforte for his reaction to the Congressional Budget Office’s report showing that the House Republican substitute for the Affordable Care Act would result in 23 million Americans losing their health insurance.
"Donald Trump is actively defining deviancy down in American politics. He’s also making America meaner."
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 9:47pm
Paul Buchheit
Donald Trump wants to cut what some call the "highest corporate tax rate in the world." The tax cut will, according to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, "pay for itself with economic growth."
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 4:06pm
As part of our continuing series on universities and key constituencies in the General Election, Catherine Boyd takes a look at the Conservative-Liberal battleground of Bath, home to two universities.
The post Universities and #GE2017 – Bath appeared first on Wonkhe.
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 12:02pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
Last week it was the body-slamming of a reporter on the eve of a special election. This week begins with an elected official threatening to murder another.
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 1:42am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The Pentagon said last week that there were "no credible indications of civilian casualties" from the latest U.S. Navy SEALs raid on a village in Yemen.
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 1:36am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Ten American municipalities are now calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, after elected officials in Brookline, Massachusetts passed a resolution last week asking Congress to begin an investigation that might lead to his removal from office.
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 12:36am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner is worried that Americans are being "left behind" because Congress and the media are seemingly consumed by "Russia, Russia, Russia."