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Amanda Marcotte | Kids in Cages: Donald Trump's Brilliant Re-Election Strategy. Will It Work?
Amanda Marcotte, Salon
Marcotte writes: "Last week, yet another image capturing the human rights abuses being inflicted by Donald Trump's administration on asylum seekers shot through the national consciousness."
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Amanda Marcotte, Salon
Marcotte writes: "Last week, yet another image capturing the human rights abuses being inflicted by Donald Trump's administration on asylum seekers shot through the national consciousness."
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Attorney General William P. Barr has shown hints of frustration with how the rollout of the special counsel’s chief findings has unfolded. (photo: Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times)
Some on Mueller's Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed
Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Some of Robert S. Mueller III's investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations."
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Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Some of Robert S. Mueller III's investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations."
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US House Ways and Means committee chairman Richard Neal. (photo: Daily Hampshire Gazette)
House Democrats Seek Six Years of Trump's Tax Returns, Setting Stage for Fight
Erica Werner, Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee asked the IRS on Wednesday for six years of President Trump's personal and business tax returns, a request with which the president immediately said he was not inclined to comply."
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Erica Werner, Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee asked the IRS on Wednesday for six years of President Trump's personal and business tax returns, a request with which the president immediately said he was not inclined to comply."
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Members of the Sunrise Movement hold up signs calling for a Green New Deal. (photo: Getty)
Critics of the Green New Deal Are in the Pocket of Big Oil
Frank Bass, Fast Company
Bass writes: "The average congressional opponent of the Green New Deal has received 24 times more campaign cash from the nation's largest oil and gas companies that sponsors of the climate change resolution, according to a MapLight analysis."
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Frank Bass, Fast Company
Bass writes: "The average congressional opponent of the Green New Deal has received 24 times more campaign cash from the nation's largest oil and gas companies that sponsors of the climate change resolution, according to a MapLight analysis."
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Inmates in prison yard. (photo: Brynn Anderson/AP)
DOJ Report Finds Widespread Rape, Murder, and Torture in Alabama Prisons
Sophie Weiner, Splinter News
Weiner writes: "A report from the U.S. Department of Justice, released today, found horrific levels of violence in Alabama prisons, according to NPR. The report comes after a two year civil rights investigation into conditions in the state's notoriously overcrowded and understaffed corrections facilities."
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Sophie Weiner, Splinter News
Weiner writes: "A report from the U.S. Department of Justice, released today, found horrific levels of violence in Alabama prisons, according to NPR. The report comes after a two year civil rights investigation into conditions in the state's notoriously overcrowded and understaffed corrections facilities."
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Traffic at the US/Mexico border. (photo: AP)
Closure of the US-Mexico Border Could Cause Devastating Economic Losses
teleSUR
Excerpt: "U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to close the southern border is considered by both Mexican and U.S. businessmen as an attempt to dictate the ongoing immigration problems, a foreign policy move which could severely affect the economies of both countries."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to close the southern border is considered by both Mexican and U.S. businessmen as an attempt to dictate the ongoing immigration problems, a foreign policy move which could severely affect the economies of both countries."
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Great Barrier Reef. (photo: National Geographic)
Great Barrier Reef Baby Coral Numbers Plummet by Nearly 90%
Nick Kilvert, ABC News
Kilvert writes: "They found new coral 'births' dropped by 89 per cent as a direct result of back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017."
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Nick Kilvert, ABC News
Kilvert writes: "They found new coral 'births' dropped by 89 per cent as a direct result of back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017."
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