“Surely you would agree that the American people deserve to know whether a former president—and a current candidate for president—took an illegal campaign contribution from a brutal foreign dictator.” Congressional Democrats on Tuesday launched an investigation in response to recent Washington Postreporting on a closed federal probe into whether Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi gave former U.S. President Donald Trump $10 […]
The two U.S. presidential candidates — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and her Republican challenger, former president Donald Trump — have never met or even spoken to each other, but they are quarreling over the terms of their first face-to-face encounter at their planned September 10 debate. When the two campaigns agreed to the 90-minute, […]
Gabriel Zucman, a leading authority on tax evasion by the rich, welcomed news that Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is embracing proposals to tax the ultra-wealthy and large corporations. An economist at the forefront of the growing global push for a billionaire wealth tax is welcoming news that U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is embracing calls for a minimum […]
“Just one disingenuous conspiracy theory-monger joining forces with another,” said one prominent journalist. Following months of increasingly obvious hints, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will drop his longshot Independent presidential bid and endorse former U.S. President Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee, according to a Wednesday report from NBC News. The network cited “two sources familiar with the plan,” including one […]
