It was late November 2017, and Matthew Bowen, a veteran Border Patrol agent, was seething. A fellow Border Patrol agent in Texas had just been found dead in the field, and Bowen was certain someone who’d been crossing the border illegally was responsible for murdering him. “Snuffed out by some …
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Rolling Stone is pleased to announce a launch this week of Useful Idiots, a news and politics podcast I’ll be co-hosting with my friend and colleague, Katie Halper. Useful Idiots is an iconoclastic take on the political podcast. Imagine a standard cable-news commentary show, and we’ll be shooting for its …
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As Robert Mueller prepared to testify before the House Wednesday, President Trump fired off an addled, early-morning tweetstorm, decrying the “The Greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history, by far!” Mueller led the investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, finding no criminal conspiracy with the government of Vladimir Putin, …
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On Sunday, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) spoke with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace about the importance of the much-anticipated testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller slated for Wednesday before both the Judiciary Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Fox News host started the interview …
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Cable news coverage of politics has hit a new low. The next new low will probably be next week, but still. CNN’s NBA-style debate lottery Thursday night degraded us all. “The Leader” held a special segment for the randomized determination of the order for Democratic Party presidential debates on July …
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The official disclosure deadline is not until July 15th, but 2020 candidates are already touting the millions theyraised in the second quarter of 2019. The top rainmaker of the quarter, by far, is President Donald Trump. His campaign, in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, says it raised $105 million …
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After two nights, four hours, and 20 candidates, the first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential campaign is in the bag. While a handful of competitors shined onstage in Miami, many more had nights they’d rather forget. Below is our consolidated report card from the big show in South Florida: …
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During an interview with George Stephanopoulos, a preview of which ABC released Wednesday night, President Trump confirmed that what the Mueller report made clear about his campaign’s relationship with Russia in 2016 — that it was offered, and willingly accepted, help from the foreign adversary — is not only liable …
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On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it will begin holding unaccompanied migrant children at Fort Sill, a 150-year-old military base in Oklahoma. In World War II, the site was used as an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. The move comes in response to a surge of …
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Housing discrimination is how Donald Trump got his start in public racism. If you are unfamiliar with the history, the Department of Justice sued the Trump family real estate management company in 1973 for barring rentals from prospective non-white tenants in New York City. The government found that the Trump …
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