Please note: The newsletter will be off tomorrow, July 4, and will return on Friday. The total taxpayer cost for Trump's Fourth of July extravaganza in DC tomorrow is unknown, but it's going to be expensive—and $2.5 million of the bill will be covered
This month marks the longest US economic expansion on record, and the longest stretch of monthly job gains. 1/15 Most of those jobs are in the service sector, doing little to lift communities suffering lost manufacturing work. 2/15 A good headline to summarize the weekend in diplomacy: “Trump
Following a meeting with Xi at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Trump announces trade negotiations with China are "back on track." 1/17 Trump tweets an invitation to Kim Jong-un to meet up and shake hands at the DMZ tomorrow. 2/17 Obama birthers are going
Trump is still so bothered about the legitimacy of his election, Russian hacking is now a joke he makes with Putin. 1/19 Your weekly white paper: How Saudi Arabia is introducing "a new form of obedience" that replaces the old social contract. 2/19 An Economist reporter
Among the takeaways from the first night of Democratic debates: Castro had a breakout evening, Warren stayed the course, and de Blasio surprised. Here's what to watch for in tonight's debate. 1/19 In a pair of rulings, the Supreme Court blocks adding a citizenship question
Democrats pass a $4.5 billion emergency border aid bill tied to efforts to oppose Trump's broader immigration agenda. 1/15 Republicans in the Senate have a different plan in mind—a comparison of the two. 2/15 Robert Mueller will testify before Congress on July 17. 3/
Hundreds of migrant children are being moved from a Border Patrol station in Texas after lawyers visited last week and discovered the squalid conditions, where detainees aren't provided with adequate soap, toothpaste, and other essentials. 1/18 "For God's sake, they're kids, man.
Tomorrow's ICE raids in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco are intended to detain up to 2,000 families, targeting people "who have received final orders of deportation." 1/23 "We've never had anything
Trump tweets that he called off a retaliatory strike on Iran with 10 minutes to go after learning it could kill 150 people, which he said wouldn't be "proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone." 1/17 "It was unclear why Mr. Trump would have
It’s World Refugee Day. Here’s the story of a baby separated from his father while both of them tried to apply for asylum in the United States. 1/18 The number of people displaced worldwide by war, persecution, and violence in 2018 would amount to the world’s
