Month: February 2017

The Trump administration is moving to roll back an environmental rule intended to define which small bodies of water are subject to federal authority under

President Trump and his advisers have begun putting some red meat on the bones of the president’s “America First” agenda. Trump is expected to talk

Donald Trump is about to make a mockery of Wall Street https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/27/donald-trump-is-about-to-make-a-mockery-of-wall-street/ By Matt O’Brien • February 27, 2017 at 10:39 AM (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News)

White House: Trump is likely to support request for investigation of Navy SEAL’s death https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/26/white-house-trump-is-likely-to-honor-request-for-investigation-of-navy-seals-death/ By John Wagner, Thomas Gibbons-Neff • February 26, 2017 at

Meet the 16-year-old Canadian girl who took down Milo Yiannopoulos – Vox http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/24/14715774/milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-pedophile-video-canada This is the real story of how the video that took down

Economists Have Been Demoted in Washington. That’s a Bad Idea. – NYTimes.com https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/upshot/economists-have-been-demoted-in-washington-thats-a-bad-idea.html February 24, 2017 Economic View By SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN Academic economists have received

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/politics/white-house-sean-spicer-briefing.html?utm_source=WTF+Just+Happened+Today%3F&utm_campaign=969d326a6c-Day_35_Rejected_copy_01_2_23_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9813b73b1a-969d326a6c-158495133&_r=1 By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM•FEB. 24, 2017 Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, during a briefing on Thursday. Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON

http://48hills.org/2017/02/22/racism-politics-redevelopment/ The history of the Western Addition is complicated — and has lessons for today February 22, 2017 Bad history — even when well-intended —

By Philip Rucker, Robert Costa February 23, 2017 at 9:28 PM White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus spoke

Arms control groups slam Trump’s ‘alternative facts’ on nukes | TheHill http://thehill.com/policy/defense/320927-arms-control-groups-slam-trumps-alternative-facts-on-nukes?amp February 23, 2017 – 05:54 PM EST Getty Images By Rebecca Kheel Nuclear