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Exclusive: How Trump Backers Weaponized Anthony Weiner to Defeat Clinton
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation decided not to pursue a criminal case against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server, Donald Trump’s path to the White House narrowed...
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View ArticleWWW Analysis: Trump’s Even More Desperate Reason for Comey Firing
Trump’s firing of James Comey yesterday proves that even those who carry water for the president are not safe. Trump is in greater peril, it seems, by the hour. And in response, the long knives are out...
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Entrapping the FBI: Podcast with Russ Baker & Matt Harvey
The official White House line is that President Donald Trump fired James Comey because the former FBI director mishandled the Hillary Clinton email investigation. While there are many reasons to...
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View ArticleA Trump Treasury of Tweets, Part 2
Back in January, we compiled a list of some of our favorite Donald Trump tweets, pointing out the unique manner in which the president chooses to express himself to the world. A lot has happened since...
View ArticleEnvironmental Groups and States Go to War With Trump
On March 24, President Trump signed an executive order to forge ahead with the Keystone XL oil pipeline that had been scotched by Obama in 2015. This is the deal to send tons of dirty tar sands...
View ArticleIntolerant Liberals?
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View ArticleLogic Check: Be Wary of New Trump Comey Tapes Threat Story
The big story as I write is that President Donald Trump has, via tweet, implicitly threatened former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, suggesting that he has tapes of Comey stating...
View ArticleIs the Constitutional Right to Vote a Myth?
Every four years a host of celebrities, politicians, and talking heads encourage Americans to get out and vote. “It’s your right,” they say. We live in a democracy, and part of the responsibility of...
View ArticleWant to Improve Election Integrity? Lock Up Vote Suppressors
Republicans often deride government as ineffective. There is one way, however, in which they have gotten it to work just as they intended: The GOP’s voter suppression effort is a well-oiled machine and...
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WWW Exclusive: Felix Sater Links Trump to Comey’s Replacement
President Donald Trump’s own words link the firing of James Comey as FBI director to the Bureau’s Russia probe. That move, however, might not have been well thought out because Andrew McCabe, Comey’s...
View ArticleTrump’s Unconfirmed Cabinet Pick
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Trump and Evangelicals, the Culmination of an Unholy Alliance
To an objective observer, it might seem odd that President Donald Trump received a hero’s welcome at Liberty University Saturday. However, the religious right’s idol-worship of the president is only...
View ArticleHillary’s Super PAC
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View ArticleRe-examining the Chelsea Manning Saga as Prison Term Ends
“In an ideal world, governments, corporations, and other large institutions would be transparent by default. Unfortunately, the world is not ideal. Many institutions begin a slow creep toward being...
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Why FBI Can’t Tell All on Trump, Russia
As much as President Donald Trump would like to make the various investigations into Russia’s interference in the US election go away, it is still the biggest story of the year. WhoWhatWhy has done its...
View ArticleIs N. Korea Behind Global Cyber Attacks?
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Closing Borders and Ethnocentrism Unite Trump and Hungary’s Orbán
While many Americans remain confused about what to make of Donald Trump, clues to his outlook can be gleaned from the policies of world leaders whose populist appeal resembles that of the new US...
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