President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that allows for families to be detained together at the border while the parents await prosecution. The move was unexpected considering how the administration had spent the past week responding to reports of children being separated from their parents by defiantly maintaining …
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A riddle for America, 2018: Could President Trump devise a conspiracy theory so unhinged that not even his base will believe it? Seeing as that the president and Fox News are usually of the same mind, one consciousness depending upon the other, this would create a paradox. But with Spygate …
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Despite an acknowledgement from President Trump on Friday that Rudy Giuliani has yet to “get his facts straight” and that it’s best to “learn before you speak,” the former New York City mayor seemed to spend the weekend in front of just about every camera he could find. Following a …
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At a raucous campaign rally in western Pennsylvania last weekend, President Trump did what his supporters love and he went off script. But instead of inciting his followers with the usual chants of “Lock her up,” he surprised many when he advocated going way beyond prison – he called for …
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President Donald Trump has imposed a 30 percent tax on imported solar panels, a move that’s expected to pull the plug on tens of thousands of American jobs, while slowing the rush to renewable energy and rewarding fossil-fuel producers. Here’s what you need to know: America First?The solar tax announcement …
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I’ve been blessed to spend most of my life living and working in “shitholes.” I was born in New York, moved to Kenya when I was three and spent the next 12 years there. My parents are from Trinidad and Tobago – a country that’s likely on President Trump’s “shithole …
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An hour before dawn on a rooftop in Raqqa, you can see the Milky Way. The Islamic State’s embattled capital in Syria, once home to hundreds of thousands of people, has been bombed back into darkness, but from the city center comes the trancelike recitation of the call to prayer. …
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