Former President Donald Trump and his allies have already started charting out possible plans of attack against likely 2024 rival and Florida governor Ron DeSantis, according to three people familiar with the matter. “This is where…Trump kicks him in the nuts,” one person close to the ex-president says. The former …
Read More »Trapped in Kharkiv's Bloody Bubble
KHARKIV – The dead Russian soldier’s body was still lying there in the snow where it had been on Friday. The Ukrainian soldiers hadn’t moved it, because of sloth or rage or simple preoccupation with the enemy army doing its best to put them in the same pose, spread-eagled on …
Read More »Two Jan. 6 Organizers Are Coming Forward and Naming Names: 'We're Turning It All Over'
Two key organizers of the main Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C. are coming in from the cold. Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lynn Lawrence are set to testify next week before the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The pair will deliver testimony and turn over …
Read More »He's South Dakota's 'Most Conservative Lawmaker.' Is He Also an Oath Keeper?
Phil Jensen has long courted controversy. As a state senator in South Dakota in 2014, he sponsored a bill, SB 128, that would have greenlighted discrimination against LGBTQ people by enabling state businesses to turn away customers, and even fire employees, on the basis of sexual orientation. The measure failed …
Read More »Donald Trump Has Nothing Left to Say. He Could Still Win Anyway
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — An old man ranting into the night. That’s how it looked out on the windswept patch of tarmac at the Fayetteville Regional Airport on Saturday night, the venue for President Trump’s latest rally. I had left the press pen behind the TV camera risers — you know, …
Read More »Michael Cohen Says Sorry. (And That His Ex Boss Is an Asshole)
Michael Cohen is making the rounds, well, as much as one can make the rounds while under house arrest in Manhattan. His book Disloyalis out today and it’s already lurking near Amazon’s Top Ten based on leaks to the Washington Post and Associated Press. The book details his years as …
Read More »U.S. States Have Been Trying to Criminalize Protests for the Past Five Years
This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. The Minnesota legislature has spent the last five years preparing for the kind of protests that have rocked the city over the past week in the wake of the police killing of George …
Read More »A Rolling Stone Roundtable With the Youth Climate Activists Fighting for Change in Davos
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Hours after President Trump kicked off the 2020 World Economic Forum on Tuesday by bashing climate activists as “prophets of doom,” Greta Thunberg countered with yet another scathing indictment of government and corporate leaders for failing to take meaningful action to combat climate change. “Our house is …
Read More »Dennis Kucinich, Who Was Ahead of His Time, Reflects on New Hampshire, Iran, and the Antiwar Movement
Sixteen years ago, after a campaign event in New Hampshire, Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich talked about what happens in politics if voters can be convinced to spend more time worrying about polls than ideas. “Unless we’re motivated by principle in our voting, we walk into a mirrored echo chamber, where …
Read More »Coming Out in Uganda Was a Death Sentence. The U.S. Border Was a Trap
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MEXICO — Margaret didn’t know what was going to happen when she approached the bridge between Juárez and El Paso, but she knew she couldn’t wait anymore. Six months since fleeing her home after being raped and repeatedly beaten for the crime of being a lesbian, the 20-year-old …
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