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President Donald Trump chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on Nov. 11, 2017. Looking back at the last tumultuous year, to me, one of the saddest aspects of the Trump candidacy and presidency is that both in part were built from one of the basest of human impulses: revenge.
Former defense secretary Leon E. Panetta speaks during a discussion on countering violent extremism on Oct. 23 in Washington. Three former secretaries of defense are warning lawmakers not to enact proposed Republican tax restructuring plans, arguing they will jeopardize future military spending.
The only thing missing from Shepard Smith's complete debunking of his colleagues' Uranium One conspiracy theory was a calling out of the role that his own network has played in promoting this witch hunt into a Congressional investigation. In case you missed it, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that he is considering appointing a special counsel to investigate Fox News' whataboutism for the Russia investigation: Hillary Clinton's role in approving the 2010 sale of the Uranium One sale to a Russian company.
JAMA had a great article last week on how total healthcare costs have increased over time in the United States. The short version is that it is all about the prices.
When Michael Moore talked on Real Time last night about needing a note from your wife to buy a gun in Canada, it caught my attention. Is it true? As it turns out, pretty much.
Reporters shouted questions at Trump and his pal, Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte, as they posed for photos. Duterte took the opportunity to call the media assembled "all spies."
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell told the press this morning that embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore should "step aside' after reports came to light that he liked to date teenage and underage girls. After completing a forum with business leaders on tax reform, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in no uncertain terms that he believed the woman interviewed in the blockbuster Washington Post report.
The Morning Joe crew discussed the low minimal standards for Trump's behavioral abroad after he attacked the intelligence community during his trip. Mike Barnicle was appalled, especially since Trump installed political animal Mike Pompeo as CIA director.
Fall is finally here! And so is our long-delayed round-up of the reads we're snuggling up with this season. Barbara: I'm reading Brittney Cooper's new book, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women .
Last Tuesday, Siham Byah - a 40-year-old undocumented Moroccan Muslim woman, single mother, and community activist - was detained by ICE at what was supposed to be a routine her to Morocco, where she would be in serious danger due to her human rights activism there. , we have a responsibility to support immigrant communities that are under attack, by any means necessary .
MARCH 10: Protesters march during a demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline on March 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Thousands of protesters and members of Native nations marched in Washington DC to oppose the construction of the proposed 1,172 Dakota Access Pipeline that runs within a half-mile of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.
We've forgotten how to pay attention to direct sense experience, to listen to our bodies, the tingling nerves and the patterns blazed upon our retinas. We've substituted words for sensations, interpretations for raw feelings.
Devin Kelley was court-martialed and spent time in a military brig for assaulting his baby stepson and once smuggled weapons onto an Air Force Base in New Mexico after making death threats against commanders. His last rank in the Air Force was "prisoner."
Netflix announced recently that we have entered the era of "binge-racing," in which millions of super-fans will watch an entire season of a show within 24 hours of its release. More broadly, Americans spent an average of 2.7 hours a day watching TV in 2016, four times as long as they spent socializing, according to the US Department of Labor.
" The work of other progressives is now more immediate, more grounded in people's needs instead of in abstractions," writes Sarah van Gelder. Americans are really stressed out, according to a new poll by the American Psychological Association.
Zach Weissmueller, Reason: Silicon Valley firms are building surveillance and profiling tools to help government agents make sense of the massive amount of information available on social media and in publicly accessible data sets. Are they using cutting-edge technologies to keep Americans safe, or laying the groundwork for a police state? ... Edward Hasbrouck of the nonprofit Identity Project says this technology enables the government to violate civil liberties without necessary checks on its power.
Republican lawmakers pushing to close dozens of tax loopholes have left open one that's been good to President Donald Trump: the golf break. With Senate Republicans expected to unveil the outline for a sweeping tax rewrite on Thursday, a lucrative break for golf-course owners -- including the president -- remains firmly in place in the House version of the measure.