So Tennessee Senator Bob Corker is in trouble now, because he flip-flopped to vote for Donald Trump‘s tax bill after a provision was included that reportedly helps him personally. Color me not shocked. I spent most of this past summer investigating Corker, whose personal finances have been the subject of …
Read More »Trump's Wrecking Ball Aims at Iran Accord
In a bombshell announcement Friday, President Trump all but exploded the landmark 2015 accord that froze Iran’s nuclear research program. Though he stopped short of canceling it outright, he declared that unless America’s allies and Congress work with him to renegotiate it – something that no one, neither those allies …
Read More »It's Time to Politicize the Terror Attack in Las Vegas
On Sunday night, a domestic terrorist, using weapons suited for battle, took aim from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel and rained bullets down on a country music festival – killing at least 58 people, wounding more than 500 others and sending a crowd of 22,000 fleeing in …
Read More »But Their Emails: Republicans React to Their Own Email Scandal
Across the Capitol this week, there were heated debates over using private email accounts for official government work, skirting federal transparency laws and accusations of partisan hypocrisy were heard, in what many see as an unwelcome rerun of the debate over Hillary Clinton‘s use of a private server. But unlike …
Read More »The Trials of Jeff Sessions: Trump's Radical Attorney General
On April 11th, about a month after recusing himself from the Russia investigation and earning the wrath of the president, Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to Arizona, whose border with Mexico he calls “ground zero” in the fight against illegal immigration and drug trafficking. It was a hot, sunny day …
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