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President Donald Trump's visit to New York on Thursday will be met with protests to "drown out" his planned speech at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum. It will be Trump's first visit to his hometown since his January inauguration.
Dozens of climate experts are calling on The New York Times to reaffirm its dedication to the facts and issue a more comprehensive correction to columnist Bret Stephens' error-laden debut column on climate change. On April 29, former Wall Street Journal columnist and longtime climate denier Bret Stephens published his first column, " Climate of Complete Certainty ," for The New York Times .
An EPI Policy Center analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus's The People's Budget: A Roadmap for the Resistance , a budget alternative for fiscal year 2018, shows that the budget would raise incomes and put the United States on a path to a fairer, more equal economy. The fiscal boost provided by the People's Budget would increase GDP by 2 percent and create 2.4 million jobs over the first two years of its implementation, as long as the Federal Reserve didn't increase interest rates in response.
What a fascinating piece of television this morning, as Joe and Mika did a devastating deconstruction of Donald Trump's mental state -- including a video comparison of Trump years ago with Trump today. "For better or worse, no matter what people have thought along the way, we have known this man for a very long time.
During today's White House press briefing, Sean Spicer told the press corp that the Trump administration is still very interested in changing the libel law protections for the media. On Sunday, the White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told ABC's Jonathan Karl that the Trump administration has "looked at" the possibility of changing libel laws to allow them to sue The New York Times.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events After Infowars founder Alex Jones said in March that Rep. Adam Schiff "looks like the archetypal c---sucker," Jones's ex-wife tried to submit the remark as evidence in a child custody trial . When Fox News's Jesse Watters said of Ivanka Trump last week that he "really liked how she was speaking into that microphone," he took an abrupt "vacation" while the outrage died down.
President Trump speaks to the Independent Community Bankers Association in the Kennedy Garden of the White House on Monday. President Trump on Tuesday raised the specter of a government shutdown in September or an immediate end to filibusters in the Senate so that he might gain more leverage in the next round of budget talks.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events It's easy to assume in the moment that moments from pop culture will bear more resonance in national politics than is warranted. But if a moment were to affect the political conversation, this seems like a good candidate: Kimmel, crying, blasts plan to repeal ACA protections.
Olivia Goldhill, Quartz: There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any time wasted. But the truth is, a life spent dutifully responding to emails is a dull one indeed.
Fox News correspondent Kevin Corke thoughtfully overlooked Donald Trump's many failures in his first 100 days in office, his promise to deliver many things he did not in those first 100 days and, as another gift, helped validate Trump's bogus "just about the most successful" first 100 days ever. Trump has had "one of the least productive first 100 days of a presidency in modern American history," Vox has noted.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Closer than most Americans get to the opposition? Painted tabletop models of the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey, shown in March 2002. Film critic Pauline Kael is often quoted as saying after the 1972 presidential election some variant of "How can [Nixon] have won? Nobody I know voted for him."
Among the 22 countries belonging to the Arab League, 17 are ranked as "bad" or "very bad" in the annual World Press Freedom Index published today by Reporters Without Borders. The nine classified as "very bad" are Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Dickerson is the first journalist I have seen grill Trump on what, exactly, is in the Republican plan. He isn't asking about the politics of the bill and whether it will pass.
American gun owners are not always in lock step with the NRA. In fact, one new poll shows that a majority of gun owners do not support some of the gun lobby's more aggressive positions, including legalizing silencers and getting rid of gun-free zones around schools.
Donald Trump told CBS' Face the Nation host John Dickerson that after his tax audit is complete, he'll make a decision on releasing them to the public. For months he said he'd release them after the longest tax audit in the history of the world was completed.
Pope Francis told reporters over the weekend that a nuclear war between the United States and North Korea could destroy a "large part of humanity." According to CNN , the pope was traveling from Egypt to Italy when he echoed earlier remarks about the danger of a "piecemeal third world war."
At that point, Zakaria shifted the blame squarely on the American voters. His larger point is that even if Donald Trump was at all competent, he would be running square into the contradictions of the American populace as outlined by Michael Kinsley : Kinsley writes in the introduction that the people ""make flagrantly incompatible demands--cut my taxes, preserve my benefits, balance the budget--then explode in self-righteous outrage when the politicians fail to deliver."
At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... Late on Sunday evening, details emerged about a new spending agreement that congressional leaders had reached to keep the federal government open past this week, when current funding runs out, and through the end of September. The deal is looking like a huge victory for Democrats- and a massive failure for Donald Trump and his Republican Party : The bipartisan agreement includes $12.5 billion in new military spending and $1.5 billion more for border security, a major priority for Republican leaders in Congress.
President Trump stands watch as Argentina Mauricio Macri and his wife Juliana Awada depart outside the White House on Thursday. After a hundred days full of fits and starts, President Trump is barreling into the second phase of his presidency focused on attempting to secure big victories that have eluded him on the economic pillars of his agenda.
The U.S. public may have to march today for our government to recognize the dangers of climate change. But in the rest of the world, governments are placing a large wager on clean solar energy.