Jeff Sessions Reverses Obama-Era Policy That Curtailed DOJ’s Private Prison Use For-profit prisons were found to be more dangerous, but the attorney general said they’re needed to “meet the future needs of the federal correctional system.” By Ryan J. Reilly, Ben Walsh, The Huffington Post WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday withdrew an Obama-era Justice […]

FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories By Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, Manu Raju and Pamela Brown, CNN Updated 6:02 PM ET, Thu February 23, 2017  FBI Director James Comey testifies during a hearing before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on July 7, 2016. Washington (CNN) The FBI rejected a recent White House request to […]

Donald Trump is dangerous when he’s losing Trump’s failures at governing feed his illiberalism. (This is a good piece, very much worth reading, but it’s long. It’s important to read it to the end.) First posted on Vox Updated by Ezra Klein@ezraklein  Feb 22, 2017, 8:40am EST A few weeks back, I wrote a piece about Donald Trump […]

Trump’s disapproval rating keeps creeping up By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL, Politico, February 22, 2017, 03:19 PM EST A majority of voters disapprove of Donald Trump’s handling of the presidency, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Less than five weeks into his presidency, Trump has an approval rating of 38 percent and a disapproval rating of 55 percent. […]

Trump’s Russia Motives Protesters at a rally against President Trump in New York on Monday. CreditAlba Vigaray/European Pressphoto Agency    By David Leonhardt, The New York Times,FEB. 21, 2017 The mystery at the core of the Trump-Russia story is motive. President Trump certainly seems to have a strange case of Russophilia. He has surrounded himself with aides who […]

WHY FACTS DON’T CHANGE OUR MINDS New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.   By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note […]

I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit. Why I left the CIA: ‘There is a strong feeling of demoralization’ under Trump   From The Washington Post By Edward Price, February 20 at 5:26 PM Edward Price worked at the CIA from 2006 until this month, most recently as the spokesman […]

Trump called the news media an ‘enemy of the American People.’ Here’s a history of the term. From The Washington Post By Amanda Erickson, February 18 at 3:44 PM President Trump berated the media repeatedly at his press conference on Feb. 16, calling CNN, The New York Times and other outlets “dishonest” and “very fake […]

An Apology Letter To All Americans — From The Constituents Of Jason Chaffetz Utah’s District 3 here. We’re super sorry. Let’s talk. Kaz Weida, Contributor Freelance Writer & Blogger I’m writing tonight because I’d like to apologize for Jason Chaffetz. To be fair, it’s not really my fault. I didn’t vote for him. But he’s my representative […]

Our president has called America’s free press an “enemy of the American people.” I do not believe he used that expression in his expansive ignorance. Perhaps he doesn’t know the bells it rings, but his chief strategist, Steve Bannon would know: This expression comes straight from Stalinist Russia. And there it meant the labor camp or a firing […]