Politics

For just the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives held public impeachment hearings today. It began with the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, and career Foreign...

The Department of Justice upgraded the administrative review of DOJ’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, into a criminal investigation. The review was being conducted by prosecutor prosecutor John Durham, but has been...

Trump has shown little ability as a deal-maker since he became president. He has, however, proven to be very skilled at deal-breaking. Tearing up international treaties and agreements that enhance the national security and general well...

Parnas Lev Parnas was born in the Soviet Union in 1972, but came to the United states in 1976 and grew up in Brooklyn. He worked for a realtor selling units in Trump buildings as a...

Dimitry Firtash went from obscurity to billionaire with a sweetheart deal from Vladimir Putin a decade ago. Putin could have sold Russian gas directly to Ukraine, but instead he made Firtash the middleman in a secretive...

In a federal court case in Los Angeles, between investors in an old-timers 3-on-3 basketball league, a court filing claims that a Qatari Consul was involved in a political influence operation in the US when he...

During a court hearing on sentencing for Alex van der Zwaan, Mueller’s prosecutors filed a report in which Mueller ties Manafort and Gates to Russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign and transition. Alex van der Zwaan,...

On Trump’s first official visit to California as president earlier this week, he attended a Beverly Hills fundraiser organized by Elliott Broidy. Broidy is the deputy national finance chairman of the RNC, who became Trump’s latest...

When The Atlantic published the emails between Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, sent just weeks after Trump hired Manafort to lead his campaign for president, they led to more questions than answers. Subsequent reporting, though, has cleared up some of...

Many on the right maintain that States’ Rights and taxes were the primary reasons for secession, and causes of the Civil War. They were not. Preservation of the institution of slavery was the primary reason. But no...