Politics

On June 28th, five staffers of Annapolis, Maryland’s Capital Gazettenewspaper were killed by an assailant wielding a legally purchased 12-gauge shotgun. Less than a week later, the paper’s surviving staff marched in the city’s Fourth of July parade. Their participation was announced in an article published Wednesday morning. “Normally, we …

In 2017, Gavin Stonehouse, a graduate student in plant biology at Colorado State University, started cultivating hemp plants in a special soil mixture dosed with varying levels of selenium. A mineral that occurs naturally in most of the western United States, selenium is also a nasty environmental pollutant when produced …

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment to investigate a possible connection between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. So far, the investigation has yielded eight indictments against 22 individuals and businesses. Campaign aide Rick Gates, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos …

Many are still reeling from the allegations against (former) New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and now it appears that Donald Trump and Michael Cohen knew about the claims all the way back in 2013 – right around the time the former AG filed a lawsuit against the future president. …

Earlier this week, Donald Trump‘s loose-lipped lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, made it clear that the president reimbursed his fixer, Michael Cohen, for the $130,000 Cohen paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her pre-election silence about an alleged affair with Trump. The money in question, Giuliani told the …

Not since the 1960s has anger at racial injustice been this palpable in America’s cities. Only a few weeks ago, Philadelphia made national headlines when protesters packed a local Starbucks chanting, “A whole lot of racism, a whole lot of crap, Starbucks coffee is anti-black!” Just a few days earlier, …

The as-yet-unstoppable force of the Trump presidency and the as-yet-immovable object of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation came a little closer to each other Tuesday night. A meeting between Trump and Mueller has long loomed as a potential inflection point for the investigation, and the Washington Postreportsthat Mueller brought …

It’s sure to go down as one of the iconic images in our history: first-generation Cuban-American Emma González, brown-skinned and bald-pated and queer, standing silent and tearful, mournful and proud, bringing the March for Our Lives in D.C. to a hush at first puzzling, then immeasurably profound. For the liberal-minded …

Wanda James is great at following rules. A former Naval officer and restaurant owner, James has spent the past decade jumping through all the hoops required to run a marijuana dispensary in Colorado: filing all of the appropriate paperwork to get licensed, complying with each new round of regulations and …

Hey, remember that time Donald Trump revealed classified intelligence from an American ally to the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office? You probably don’t, and who can blame you? It happened nearly nine months ago, on March 23rd, and nine months is an eternity with this administration. But the …