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Aug 05 2013
Opinion
DEA Covering Up Spying Used To Investigated Americans
A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts wiretaps informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
HuffPost
Apr 27 2014
Opinion
Tea Party Challenges Against GOP Leaders Falling Flat
The feisty personalities and anti-establishment fervor that fed tea party challenges in recent Republican U.S. Senate primaries are largely missing this year a troubling sign for Democrats who want the GOP to nominate candidates with limited appeal.In North Carolina a...
Newsmax (News)
Mar 25 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Congress, Trump Unite to Pass $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus
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Updated 3/27/2020 at 4:54 p.m. ET: President Donald Trump signed a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill into law Friday afternoon, aimed at stabilizing the economy and American life amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
The legislation — the largest of its kind in U.S. history — includes direct payments to
Henry A. Brechter
Apr 26 2014
News
Feds close to filing charges against Rep. Michael Grimm, officials say
Federal prosecutors are preparing to announce criminal charges against Rep. Michael Grimm capping a two-year FBI investigation that ranges from his business dealings to his first campaign for Congress in 2010 according to his lawyer and U.S. officials briefed on the matter.
CNN Digital
Jun 13 2013
News
Editor Gives Details On Whereabouts Of Whistleblower
The former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs remains in Hong Kong, where activists rallied in his support Thursday outside the American Consulate.
HuffPost
Jun 13 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Mayor Pete’s Foreign Policy: One Good Idea and Lots of Bad Ones
He points out Congress’s bipartisan cowardice in dodging responsibility for wars.
It is now a commonplace of American politics that successful presidential candidates run as doves, then find a hawkish side in office. Ike ran as a peace candidate, then increased involvement in Korea. Nixon promised an end to the war, and expanded the one he inherited into Cambodia. George W. Bush
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Apr 20 2013
News
Boston Bomb Suspect's Dad Learns of Son's Capture: 'Tell Police Everything'
The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev called on his son today to give up peacefully but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed all hell will break lose.
ABC News (Online)
Jul 16 2019
News
Trump: My tweets 'were NOT Racist'
President Donald Trump asserted Tuesday that his recent tweets targeting a quartet of progressive congresswomen "were NOT Racist," and urged Republican lawmakers to vote against a House resolution formally condemning the incendiary posts.
"Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not
Politico
Sep 21 2014
News
Why it's still not "game over" for global warming
If you haven't read it yet, I'd recommend my colleague Ezra Klein's piece on "7 reasons America will fail at global warming." It's an insightful look at all the ways the US political system is poorly suited to dealing with a massive, long-range problem like climate change.
Vox
Jul 16 2019
Opinion
OPINION: George Conway: Trump is a racist president
To this day, I can remember almost the precise spot where it happened: a supermarket parking lot in eastern Massachusetts. It was the mid-1970s; I was not yet a teenager, or barely one. I don’t remember exactly what precipitated the woman’s ire. But I will never forget what she said to my mother, who had come to this country from the Philippines decades before. In these words or something
Guest Writer - Left