Month: August 2017

President’s lawyer jumps into racial controversy by forwarding inflammatory email – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/presidents-lawyer-jumps-into-racial-controversy-by-forwarding-inflammatory-email/2017/08/16/13c87d30-82e7-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html?utm_term=.85594b4db9bc President Trump’s lawyer on Wednesday fanned an already-incendiary racial debate

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/poll-republicans-putin-russia-confidence-241701 MATTHEW NUSSBAUM08/16/2017 02:00 PM EDT The poll found that the share of Republicans expressing confidence in Russian President Vladimir Putin doubled to 34 percent

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/magazine/breitbart-alt-right-steve-bannon.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Steve Bannon once said it was the platform for the alt-right. Its current editors disagree. Is the incendiary media company at the nerve center

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/15/us/what-happens-if-health-subsidy-payments-stop.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that health insurance premiums would rise and the federal deficit would increase if President Trump cuts off payments

In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking – NYTimes.com https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/world/europe/russia-ukraine-malware-hacking-witness.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage By ANDREW E. KRAMER and ANDREW HIGGINS August 16, 2017 The Democratic National Committee

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/politics/dreamhost-department-of-justice-trump-opponents/index.html Washington (CNN)A web hosting provider is fighting back against a search warrant that it claims would require them to turn over information on visitors

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/vietnam-san-francisco-1967-summer.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-1&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region Michael J. Kramer AUG. 15, 2017 Attendees of the Human Be-In Festival resting in a field in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in 1967.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/346602-obamas-tweet-after-charlottesville-one-of-most-popular-tweets-ever Rebecca Savransky08/15/17 10:59 AM EDT Former President Obama’s tweet in the wake of the violent clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

In 1939, I didn’t hear war coming. Now its thundering approach can’t be ignored | Harry Leslie Smith | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/14/1939-second-world-war-fascist-thundering-approach-hitler?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Harry

http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2017/08/14/ok-us-government-see-you-in-court/ James Hansen OPINION | JAMES HANSEN AND SOPHIE KIVLEHAN OK, US government — see you in court By James Hansen and Sophie Kivlehan