Congress may have moved on from health care. The public has not. With taxes and spending, debt and defense piled up on Congress’ extremely full plate this month, a new poll by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that Americans remain sharply focused on health […] Read more »
How will the tax reform legislation impact the middle class?
Julie Pace, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ron Brownstein, and Ezra Klein discuss the political impact tax reform legislation could have on the Republican Party and what Flynn’s plea deal means for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Face the Nation, CBS News Read more »
Trump veers past guardrails, feeling impervious to the uproar he causes
President Trump this week disseminated on social media three inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos, took glee in the firing of a news anchor for sexual harassment allegations despite facing more than a dozen of his own accusers and used a ceremony honoring Navajo war heroes to malign a senator with […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Trump approval at new low as Russia concerns grow
Donald Trump’s approval rating stands at its lowest point in CNN’s polling as concerns about contacts between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian operatives have grown sharply in the wake of the first indictments from the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the US election. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
49% of Americans think Trump likely committed a crime
About half of respondents in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll suspect that President Donald Trump himself broke the law during the presidential campaign and just three in 10 Americans think that alleged wrongdoing ends with those who were charged this week by the special counsel. CONT. Gary Langer, ABC […] Read more »
How Russian Bots and Trolls Invade Our Lives — and Elections
How do bots and trolls work to infiltrate social media platforms and influence U.S. elections? We take a closer look at these insidious online pests to explain how they work. Natalia V. Osipova & Aaron Byrd, New York Times Read more »