Jane Kay, of the Center for Investigative Reporting, reports that the Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly cancelled funding for a number of ongoing scientific studies and programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancy. The Trump administration has quietly axed $213.6 million in teen pregnancy...
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Given recent developments in Trumpland, I decided to interview my friend and sometimes collaborator, Alex Cooley, for an episode of Foreign Entanglements. We discuss matters related to his recent co-authored book, Dictators without.
To add context to my post from yesterday about Trump and corruption, go read Seva Gunitsky's commentary on Twitter. It's occasioned by a letter that Democratic House Judiciary members sent to Jeff Sessions, which demands to know why the Department of Justice suddenly—and unexpectedly—settled a Russian...
Apropos Erik's post from yesterday, DHS Secretary John Kelley met with the leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. At least by some accounts, the content of the meeting are deeply.
Today CNN released a video footage of Donald Trump having dinner with some of the key players implicated in the latest iteration of the Trump-Russia collusion scandal. The video shows the.
That's one of the many interesting issues raised by Kate Antonova—an Associate Professor at Queen's College, CUNY—in a truly epic tweetstorm. She also storified the tweets and added some commentary. I’m a historian of conservatism. I’d really like to see everyone stop describing the GOP today as being...
If you imagine H.R. McMaster saying to Steve Miller, "fine, I'll let you have your Fascism Lite™ stuff so long as the President affirms Article V and discusses Russian destabilization as a.
The Washington Post has a comprehensive report on Russian electoral interference and the Obama Administration's attempt to handle it without unduly interfering with the US election. In political terms, Russia’s interference.
Critical writings on Wikileaks always seem to stir the hornet's nest around these parts. So, in that spirit, here's Sue Halperin reviewing a new documentary on Julian Assange, Risk, in the New York Review of Books: Most egregious, perhaps, was Assange’s collaboration with Israel Shamir, an unapologetic...
Chelsea Manning's treatment was appalling, but that doesn't mean we have to whitewash the indiscriminate document dump of diplomatic cables that helped turn Wikileaks into a thing. With that out.
You can't make this stuff up. Right-wing activists attempted to shut down the controversial performance of Julius Caesar that portrays the titular character as Donald Trump. There is, of course,.