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Shaken By Bunny Tape, Trump Attacks FBI And Michael Cohen
Indicted Russian Hacking Outfit Cites Kavanaugh Ruling
Audience Jeers VA Senate Candidate Who Says Trump 'Stood Up To Russia'
Nunes Spent Funds From Pro-Trump Appeals On Sports Tickets, Vegas Junkets
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Secret Surge: The Global Reach Of US Special Forces
By Nick Turse
White House Targets Home Healthcare Workers
By Sarah Okeson
Rep. Roharabacher, Putin's Favorite, Defends Alleged NRA Spy
By Dan Desai Martin
Welcome To Humankind's Twilight Years
By Cynthia Tucker

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US Envoy To Russia Won't Resign — But Won't Defend Trump
Huntsman was responding to a column published Tuesday in the Tribune, the Utah paper owned by Huntsman’s brother, Paul Huntsman.
By Elizabeth Preza

Texas GOP Congressman Blasts Trump For Aiding And Abetting Putin
A Republican in a Clinton swing district called out Trump.
By Eric Boehlert

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Trump's Treachery Makes Republicans 'Sad' When They Should Be Mad
By Joe Conason

'Trump Baby' Blimp Coming To Trump's Jersey Resort
After humiliating Trump in England, the 'Trump Baby' blimp will float in the air near Trump's golf course in New Jersey to shame him for his bigotry.
By Oliver Willis
Why Trump And White Supremacists Share Strong Affinity For Russia
This theory posits that Trump is not solely obliged to Putin for personal reasons but that he also has an ideological affinity for the authoritarian leader.
By Cody Fenwick
Kremlin's House GOP Allies Vote Against Election Protections
Democrats applauded and began to chant "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" as Republicans went silent and voted against the measure to protect elections.
By Chris Sosa
Report: Facebook's Zuckerberg Secretly Congratulated Trump After 2016 Election
According to BuzzFeed, Zuckerberg “congratulated the Trump team on its victory and successful campaign, which spent millions of dollars on advertising with Facebook.”
By Chris Sosa
Republicans Again Running Up Massive Fiscal Deficits
The fact that Republicans are great at cutting taxes for the 1% while butchering social programs for the poor doesn’t mean that they don’t spend tax dollars like crazy.
By Alex Henderson
White House Steno Resigned Because 'Trump Is Lying'
"It’s clear that White House stenographers do not serve his administration, but rather his adversary: the truth," Dorey-Stein wrote.
By Chris Sosa

Money
Why Higher Techie Incomes May Bring Lower Quality Of Life
With the prosperity came a crisis of homelessness and crushing housing prices for those with moderate incomes.
By Froma Harrop
Freeing Predators To Bilk Little People Hurts Everyone
The mortgages looked like easy money but were actually booby-trapped contracts loaded with high fees and exploding interest charges. They often transformed what could have been manageable setbacks into foreclosures.
By Froma Harrop
Nobel-Winning Doctors' Group Denounces Trump Pharma Plan
The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders issued a stinging rebuke of Trump's plan to address prescription drug costs by pandering to the pharmaceutical industry.
By Caroline Orr

Health
White House Targets Home Healthcare Workers
The Trump administration is continuing its war against unions by trying to make it harder for lowly paid home healthcare workers to pay union dues.
By Sarah Okeson
Shelters Drugged Immigrant Teens Without Consent
Whether they came to the U.S. alone, or were forcibly separated from their families at the border, despondent minors are often pressured into taking psychotropic drugs without approval from a parent or guardian.
By Caroline Chen and Jess Ramirez
Warning Label: Health Insurers 'Vacuum Up' Personal Data About Consumers
Without any public scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing.
By Marshall Allen

Lifestyle
Russian Agents Acted On Trump's Demand To Hack Clinton — The Same Day
And according to a new Indictment from the Justice Department and special counsel Robert Mueller, it looks like the Russians were taking Trump's directions.
By Cody Fenwick
Indictments Cite Link From Russian Intelligence To Trump Aide Roger Stone
The indictment against 12 Russian agents for election meddling shows a direct path to Roger Stone, the dirty trickster who has been personally guiding Trump on politics for decades.
By Oliver Willis
Mueller Indicts 12 Russian Military Intelligence Agents In Hacking
While Trump continues to defend Russia, the special counsel's investigation just indicted another 12 Russians for trying to hijack our 2016 presidential election.
By Kaili Joy Gray

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#EndorseThis: Daily Show Row With France Not Over Says Trevor Noah
By Kurt Boyer
#EndorseThis: Lewis Black Calls Trump A Thief Of Time Itself
By Kurt Boyer
#EndorseThis: Putin Erases Chris Wallace In Kimmel's Beatdown Of Fox News
By Kurt Boyer

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: Alex Jones Makes Incoherent Case For White Reparations
Eclipse apocalypse, white reparations, and a journalism crash course from a conspiracist blogger. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.
By Brendan Gauthier
This Week In Crazy: David Crosby Faces Fire, Fury From Ted Nugent
Statue fetishists, blubbering neo-Nazis, and Cat Fight Fever. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.
By Brendan Gauthier
This Week In Crazy: Trump's God-Given Mission To Nuke North Korea
Nuclear holy war, Chi-Raqi occupation, and Al Gore's "big ugly ass." Welcome to This Week In Crazy.
By Brendan Gauthier

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POLITICS
In Our Age Of Anxiety, A Restorative Pause
By Connie Schultz
'Trump Baby' Blimp Coming To Trump's Jersey Resort
A Conservative's Lament: 'I Miss Barack Obama'
OPINION
The Reckoning Arrives For Donald Trump, Fox News, And The GOP
By Eric Boehlert
Evangelical Leaders Still Support Trump -- But Will Lewd Remarks Repel Voters?
In 24 Years of Town Hall Debates, The Winners, The Losers, And The Weird
BOOKS
Major Publishers Reject Don Jr.'s 'Defense Of Daddy' Book Proposal
By Oliver Willis
Goodbye, Philip Roth: The Passing Of A Great American Novelist
Book Excerpt: Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

NATIONAL
Surfing That Blue Wave: A Democrat With The 'Empathy Factor'
By Steven Rosenfeld
Senate Probers Say Russians Could Alter Voter Files In 2016
Rudy Giuliani Keeps Racking Up Potential Felony Charges Against Client Trump
MONEY
Why Higher Techie Incomes May Bring Lower Quality Of Life
By Froma Harrop
Freeing Predators To Bilk Little People Hurts Everyone
Nobel-Winning Doctors' Group Denounces Trump Pharma Plan
LIFESTYLE
#EndorseThis: Kimmel Strikes Back At Trump With Outrageous Fried Chicken Tale
By Kurt Boyer
#EndorseThis: Michelle Wolf Bites Ivanka Trump Right In The Soul
#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Goes Heisenberg On President Trump

WORLD
Secret Surge: The Global Reach Of US Special Forces
By Nick Turse
Undermining The UN Is Trump Policy
#EndorseThis: Sadiq Khan Battles Piers Morgan Over London Trump Balloon
HEALTH
White House Targets Home Healthcare Workers
By Sarah Okeson
Shelters Drugged Immigrant Teens Without Consent
Warning Label: Health Insurers 'Vacuum Up' Personal Data About Consumers
VIDEO
#EndorseThis: Daily Show Row With France Not Over Says Trevor Noah
By Kurt Boyer
#EndorseThis: Lewis Black Calls Trump A Thief Of Time Itself
#EndorseThis: Putin Erases Chris Wallace In Kimmel's Beatdown Of Fox News

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