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Matt Taibbi | Amazon's Long Game Is Clearer Than Ever
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Yes, the company has increased the odds that it will be awarded one of the all-time lucrative defense deals, the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, providing cloud services and a platform for Department of Defense operations, instantly becoming one of the biggest federal contractors."
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Yes, the company has increased the odds that it will be awarded one of the all-time lucrative defense deals, the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, providing cloud services and a platform for Department of Defense operations, instantly becoming one of the biggest federal contractors."
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Special counsel Robert Mueller. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Republicans Just Blocked a Bipartisan Bill to Protect Robert Mueller
Paul McLeod, BuzzFeed News
McLeod writes: "Republican Sen. Jeff Flake says he will block all of President Trump's judicial nominees until his bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller goes to a vote."
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Paul McLeod, BuzzFeed News
McLeod writes: "Republican Sen. Jeff Flake says he will block all of President Trump's judicial nominees until his bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller goes to a vote."
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Walmart employee Kenneth White scans items while conducting an exercise during a Walmart Academy class session at the store in North Bergen, N.J. Walmart will be rolling out a program that allows its staff to check out customers and provide receipts right on the spot in the busiest sections of the store. (photo: Julio Cortez/AP)
Sanders Wants to Penalize Walmart's Owners Unless They Pay Their Workers $15 an Hour.
Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
Stein writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will unveil legislation on Thursday to force Walmart to raise its workers' wages to at least $15 an hour, the latest move in the senator's campaign to target large U.S. corporations over low pay."
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Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
Stein writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will unveil legislation on Thursday to force Walmart to raise its workers' wages to at least $15 an hour, the latest move in the senator's campaign to target large U.S. corporations over low pay."
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According to an annual report from the Costs of War project at Brown University's Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, the total cost of the war on terror will reach roughly .9 billion through fiscal year 2019. (photo: AP)
America's 'War on Terror' Has Cost Nearly $6 Trillion and Killed a Half Million People
John Haltiwanger, Business Insider
Haltiwanger writes: "The US will have dished out nearly $6 trillion on the war on terror by October 2019, and there's no end in sight to the convoluted, ill-defined conflict."
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John Haltiwanger, Business Insider
Haltiwanger writes: "The US will have dished out nearly $6 trillion on the war on terror by October 2019, and there's no end in sight to the convoluted, ill-defined conflict."
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Demonstrates march in support for Medicare for All. (photo: AP)
What a Democratic House Will Mean for Medicare for All
Amanda Michelle Gomez, ThinkProgress
Gomez writes: "Thousands of people dialed into a call Tuesday evening to strategize how Democrats can make unprecedented progress on Medicare for All."
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Amanda Michelle Gomez, ThinkProgress
Gomez writes: "Thousands of people dialed into a call Tuesday evening to strategize how Democrats can make unprecedented progress on Medicare for All."
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Demonstrators protest violence against Native American women. (photo: Dave Kolpack/AP)
Senate Taking Up Heitkamp's Savanna's Act After Another Horrific Attack on Native Woman
Nick Martin, Splinter News
Martin writes: "Last week, Sheena Between Lodges, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, was brutally beaten into a coma."
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Nick Martin, Splinter News
Martin writes: "Last week, Sheena Between Lodges, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, was brutally beaten into a coma."
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California crab fishermen. (photo: Mason Trinca/San Francisco Chronicle)
Crab Fisherman Sue 30 Fossil Fuel Companies, Citing Economic Losses Due to Climate Change
Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle
Duggan writes: "The day before commercial fishermen were due to bring the first of the season's Dungeness crab to Bay Area docks, they made other news."
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Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle
Duggan writes: "The day before commercial fishermen were due to bring the first of the season's Dungeness crab to Bay Area docks, they made other news."
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