“Private companies should fund, build, and run more of the basic infrastructure of American life.” That’s how the Washington Post sums up a key tenet of the Trump administration’s thinking on infrastructure, in an article Wednesday that outlines the White House’s push to privatize “some public assets such as airports, bridges, highway rest stops, and other…
As progressives gear up for a National Day of Action to protest the Republican healthcare bill, more evidence is piling in that Americans don’t approve of the Senate plan to repeal and replace the the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare. A new poll by NPR/Marist finds that just 17 percent of Americans approve of…
In what environmental justice groups are characterizing as legal harassment by “corporate mercenaries,” the company that owns the contested Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace, Earth First!, BankTrack, and individuals who oppposed and protested the pipeline, claiming over $300 million in damages. The “meritless lawsuit” is “not designed to seek justice,…
California Democratic House hopeful Harley Rouda is taking the accusations of Russia collusion to his potential opponent, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), in a new ad that frames the congressman as part of a joint effort with President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto…
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said Tuesday that the organization would only return donations from former RNC finance chair Steve Wynn, who has been accused of sexually harassing his employees, if investigations find him guilty of wrongdoing. The RNC has been largely silent since Friday’s Wall Street Journal report about Wynn, a casino mogul. The RNC announced…
A years-long fight over the way Utah Republicans pick their party nominees is almost certainly headed to court again after warring factions in the state party and the state legislature failed to reach an agreement ahead of a key deadline last week. At issue is whether candidates seeking Republican nominations can gather signatures to appear…
Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s personal attorney on the Russia case, threatened a stranger in a string of profanity-laden emails Wednesday night. The man, a retired public relations professional in the western United States who asked not to be identified, read ProPublica’s story this week on Kasowitz and sent the lawyer an email with the subject…
White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci waged war with President Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, Thursday morning over leaks from the White House to journalists. But Scaramucci’s fight against leaks appears to be at least partially focused on public information, and on the perfectly legal transfer of information from officials to the press. After…
Though there is much more to learn about the lone victim—identified by family and friends on Sunday as Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal from Virginia—who lost her life in the vicious attack in Charlottesville on a group of anti-racist demonstrators, the last public message she left behind offered at least a semblance of what inspired…
With at least five reported dead after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Gulf Coast earlier this weekend, Texas residents are expected to continue battling “unprecedented” rainfall and life-threatening, “catastrophic” flooding for several days. “An extremely serious situation with few if any close parallels in modern U.S. hurricane history is taking shape over the southeast third…