Liberal View Kavanaugh's Confirmation Was Built on Lies. The Entire GOP Traffics in Lies. Why the Press Silence?smirkingchimp.com We're witnessing a political revolution in this country, and the press is missing this monumental shift. It’s not that journalists can’t spot the …
Joe Biden The Pragmatic Roots of Biden’s Incoherencenewrepublic.com - Alex Shephard The former vice president is a dealmaker, not a deep thinker. On Sunday, Miami real estate developer Craig Robins introduced Joe Biden at a fundraiser …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBenjamin Netanyahu 'Ice cold': Trump seems to be distancing himself from Israel's Netanyahu after unfavorable electiontheweek.com - Peter Weber Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his close personal relationship with President Trump a centerpiece of his just-concluded election …
Greta Thunberg Teenager Greta Thunberg testifies before Congress about climate crisis after meeting Barack ObamaSalon - Matthew RozsaSwedish activist Greta Thunberg and Former U.S. President Barack Obama (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Teenage advocate Greta Thunberg submitted no prepared testimony before she
Barack Obama Barack Obama Speaks Out on Climate Change, Income Inequality, and the Downside of Social MediaFortune - Jonathan Vanian Former President Barack Obama believes civilization's most-challenging issues are climate change, income inequality, and an increasingly polarized …
Liberal View Drain the swamp? Trump has named more lobbyists to Cabinet than Bush or Obama did in 8 yearsrawstory.com - Igor Derysh, Salon President Trump has named more former lobbyists to Cabinet positions in his first three years in office than Barack Obama or George W. Bush did over …
Barack Obama President Obama Just Went After Trump in a Rare Direct AttackEsquire - By Jack HolmesEarlier today we highlighted the need for Democrats to come to grips with the nature of the threat posed by Trumpism and the Republican power politics that have been moving in the direction of someone
Barack Obama Obama swipes Trump on watching TV and using TwitterAxios - Ina Fried Former President Barack Obama said at a tech conference Wednesday that one key to his decision-making was relying on staff and surrounding himself …
U.S. Navy US Navy Confirms That Three UFO Videos Are Real. But Are They Aliens?Mashable - Natasha MathurDo you remember the UFO videos that had started to surface back in 2017 when the likes of the BBC and the New York Times posted it? Well, it turns out that those alleged “UFO videos” are real, as confirmed
Lindsey Graham Lindsey Graham’s appeasement of Trump appears to have reached its limitThe Washington Post - By Aaron BlakeSen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) has all but admitted to the game he’s playing with President Trump. The man who once derided Trump as a “bigot” and a “kook” during the 2016 campaign has acknowledged his
Play buttonWorld News How did oil attack breach Saudi defences and what will happen next?The Guardian - Michael Safi and Julian BorgerSaudi Arabia’s state-of-the-art missile defence systems could do nothing to stop the swarm of drones and cruise missiles that struck some of its most important oil infrastructure at the weekend. They designed
Comets ‘This Is Clearly Coming From Outside the Solar System’The Atlantic - Marina KorenThe second known visitor to our cosmic neighborhood from another star is making quite an entrance. No one knows where it came from, but it’s here now. And the chase is on. Astronomers around the world
Israel The 'King of Israel' Is No More: Israel Faces a Future Without NetanyahuVICE - Alex KaneBenjamin Netanyahu spent the day of Israel’s elections screaming that he was about to lose his post as prime minister if supporters didn’t get out to vote —a familiar tactic to invigorate his right-wing
Benjamin Netanyahu Israelis Just Saved Their DemocracyBloomberg - Daniel Gordis It’s tempting to say about an election in any country that this is the election that really matters, that this time, the results will determine the …
Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg masterfully pulls apart congressman's argument on climate changeMashable - Siobhan Neela-StockGreta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist, isn't afraid to contradict adults on their perceptions about climate change. On Wednesday, Thunberg provided testimony for a U.S. House
Corey Lewandowski It was chaos, and then a real lawyer showed upThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinCorey Lewandowski sneered and dodged and raised phony privileges when questioned by members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. He did, however, make a fatal error (fatal to President Trump, is)
U.S. Politics Trump just asked the Supreme Court to let him fire the CFPB’s head. The implications are enormous.Vox - Ian MillhiserOn Tuesday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit challenging the leadership structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — taking the same side as the people
Education It’s Not Trump, It’s EducationOZY - John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco The mass murder in El Paso, Texas, was the most brazen and tragic act of violence in the name of Trumpism to date. But Donald Trump’s election was …
Politics White House Fires Homeland Security Dept.’s General CounselThe New York Times - Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie HabermanWASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday fired John Mitnick, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, after months of shake-up at an agency responsible for carrying out President Trump’s
Protest Us versus them: Hong Kong’s protests are fuelled by the same rage as the Trump presidency and BrexitSouth China Morning Post - Letters The current protests in Hong Kong are not about an extradition treaty. Any lawyer would agree that with a proper protocol in place, an extradition …
Security China ramps up security from Beijing to Guangdong ahead of National DaySouth China Morning Post - Kinling Lo,William Zheng China has stepped up security across the country, especially in the capital of Beijing, ahead of National Day celebrations to mark the 70th …
Kiev Ukraine police capture gunman who threatened to blow up Kiev bridgeSouth China Morning Post - Agence France-Presse A gunman who fired shots from his car after stopping traffic on a major Kiev bridge and threatened to blow it up was captured on Wednesday by …
News (Hong Kong)Don’t take our support for granted, powerful rural body tells Hong Kong leader as it fights back against suggestion she seizeSouth China Morning Post - Ng Kang-chung Defiant leaders of Hong Kong’s rural powerhouse, the Heung Yee Kuk, have asked the city’s embattled leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, as well as …
Allianz Financial assets held by Chinese households dropped last year for first time since 2000, Allianz saysSouth China Morning Post - Martin Choi Financial assets held by Chinese households dropped last year for the first time since the turn of the century, as a result of the US-China trade war …
News (Hong Kong) Violence blew the lid off Hong Kong’s simmering discontent. It’s about timeSouth China Morning Post - Michael Chugani Who says violent protests don’t work? They do and have done so in ways unimaginable before the petrol bombs flew. Without violence, would Chinese …
Hong Kong Stocks Blog: Hong Kong cuts base rate after US Fed moveSouth China Morning Post - Zhang Shidong,Deb Price,Anthony Richardson Good day traders -- Well, we'll see whether the Fed's interest cut stirs any investor passions since it's been baked in the cake. “We took this step …
News (China) China’s railway spending plummets as Beijing struggles to sustain momentumSouth China Morning Post Railway spending in August plunged 27.1 per cent following a decade-long building spree which has given China two-thirds of the world’s high-speed …
North America The US Navy is tracking UFOs, but can’t say alien ships are in these fighter pilot videosSouth China Morning Post - The Washington Post In December 2017, two videos emerged that showed US Navy pilots encountering mysterious spherical objects that appeared, at first glance, to move …
Asia It’s not just about China. Asian economies are integrating rapidly, fuelling regional growthSouth China Morning Post - Oliver Tonby,Jonathan Woetzel China’s inexorable economic rise, and Japan’s industrial revolution before it, have long attracted superlatives. But beyond these economic giants, …
World News How distant asteroid collision shaped life on Earth before dinosaurs were wiped outSouth China Morning Post - Reuters The cataclysmic asteroid impact off Mexico’s coast that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not the only time an astronomical event shaped …
Josh GardnerLiberal View Drain the swamp? Trump has named more lobbyists to Cabinet than Bush or Obama did in 8 yearsrawstory.com - Igor Derysh, Salon
Josh GardnerCorey Lewandowski It was chaos, and then a real lawyer showed upThe Washington Post - By Jennifer Rubin
Josh GardnerNorth America The US Navy is tracking UFOs, but can’t say alien ships are in these fighter pilot videosSouth China Morning Post - The Washington Post
Josh GardnerJapan Japan and US drills simulate response to a seaborne invasion, reflecting anxieties about ChinaSouth China Morning Post - Julian Ryall
Josh GardnerBank of China China rewards and bullies countries to push its Indo-Pacific agenda, top US diplomat saysSouth China Morning Post - Sarah Zheng
Josh GardnerPolitics Speaker Nancy Pelosi Unveils Plan To Lower Prescription Drug CostsNPR - Susan Davis
Josh GardnerLiberal ViewTrump’s communications with foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief andThe Washington Post - By Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, Shane Harris
Josh GardnerMedia Industry Stunning Report on Trump’s Troubling ‘Promise’ to Foreign Leader Sparks Panic: ‘Selling Out Our Country’mediaite.com - reed-richardson
Josh GardnerNeutron Stars Astronomers Found Goliath Pulsar That Can Collapse Forming A Black HoleMashable - Aakarsh Dube
Josh GardnerWorld News Saudis, Israel attack pro-Iran militias on Syria-Iraq border - reportjpost.com - Tzvi Joffre
Josh GardnerConcrete Trump talks up border wall — a bit more than some would likePOLITICO - By CAITLIN OPRYSKO
Josh Gardnertrump news update POLITICO Playbook: The Trump phone call that launched a whistleblower complaintPOLITICO - By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN
Josh GardnerBusiness China's growth could slip below 6%, analysts warn, as trade war takes tollReuters - By Kevin Yao and Stella Qiu
Josh GardnerNews U.S. building coalition after Saudi oil attack, Iran warns against warReuters - By Tuqa Khalid and Aziz El Yaakoubi
Josh GardnerBusiness New York extends lead over Brexit-hit London in finance center pollReuters - By Huw Jones
Josh Gardner Afghanistan braces for deadly attacks as Taliban vow to disrupt presidential electionReuters - Abdul Qadir Sediqi
Josh GardnerTuvalu Tuvalu changes PM, adds to concerns over backing for Taiwan in PacificReuters - By Colin Packham and Jonathan Barrett
Josh GardnerBusiness U.S., Chinese trade deputies face off in Washington amid deep differencesReuters - By David Lawder
Josh GardnerBenjamin Netanyahu Israel votes in repeat election focused on NetanyahuPOLITICO - By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Josh GardnerBernie Sanders Sanders campaign wracked by dissensionPOLITICO - By HOLLY OTTERBEIN and TRENT SPINER
Josh GardnerU.S. Central Command A coalition of the few: U.S. and Saudi Arabia stand alone against IranPOLITICO - By WESLEY MORGAN
Josh GardnerArizona Senate ‘The ground is shifting’: Arizona emerges as a 2020 trouble spot for TrumpPOLITICO - By MARC CAPUTO
Josh GardnerBenjamin Netanyahu Israel’s Netanyahu appears to suffer election setbackPOLITICO - By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Josh GardnerU.S. Politics The US postpones a military deal amid concerns about stays at a Scottish Trump resortVox - Anya van Wagtendonk
Josh GardnerU.S. Politics GM workers will go on strike, the latest stoppage in a global trend of large-scale labor actionVox - Anya van Wagtendonk
