Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow: "We've Got to Get on Top of This Thing"
Right before he went on CBS to defend the president and attack his critics, I overheard Trump’s lawyer talking on the phone in a TV green room.
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If You Are Black and in a Mental Health Crisis, 911 Can Be a Death Sentence
There’s a pattern of black families calling the police for a relative in a mental health crisis — and the police then kill that person.
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: Stepping Away From a Disastrous War Over Kashmir
War looks inevitable now, but the escalation between India and Pakistan over Kashmir has invited international involvement.
Democrats, Please Don’t Mess This Up. Impeach Trump for All His Crimes, Not Just for Ukraine.
Impeaching Trump only for Ukraine would give him a clean bill of health on everything else, like his obstruction of the Mueller investigation.
Donald Trump's Call With Ukrainian Leader, One Day After Robert Mueller's Congressional Testimony, Shows the President Is a Brazen Criminal
Trump has been acting like a bank robber who beat one rap because of a technicality, and so decides to rob every bank in sight.
I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down.
Many observers now seem to think this suddenly hot story came out of nowhere this year, but that is not true.
Ecocide Should Be Recognized as a Crime Against Humanity, but We Can't Wait for The Hague to Judge
Climate justice won't be possible without bringing down the powerful actors standing in the way of cutting emissions and production.
Indigenous People Are Already Working "Green Jobs" — but They're Unrecognized and Unpaid
From Standing Rock to the Unist’ot’en Camp, land defense and water protection are necessary for the continuation of life on a planet teetering on collapse.
Why Is Bill De Blasio Trying to Kill Me? New York's Mayor Claims to Be Progressive but Favors Drivers Over Bicyclists.
I never expected that my skills as a war reporter would be relevant to my life as a dad in a Brooklyn, but that was before I started biking to work.
How the White Nationalists Who Love Trump Found Inspiration in the Group That Gave Us Narendra Modi
The anti-Muslim mass murderer Anders Breivik found inspiration in the Hindu nationalist group where Narendra Modi got his start as a far-right activist.