Analysis

The lost months The WHO was prepared Contradicting Trump’s recent criticism of the World Health Organization (WHO) – saying they “minimized the threat” and “could have called it months earlier” – the Washington Post reported that Americans working with WHO provided real-time information about the virus when it first emerged last year: More than […]

New guidelines proposed by the Trump administration require all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients who are aged 18 to 49, able bodied, and without dependents to work a minimum 20 hours a week in order to maintain consistent access to the programs benefits. If work requirements aren’t met, […]

The Trump administration is under fire for its slow, sometimes incompetent, response to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, “SARS-CoV-2”, which causes a disease named COVID-19. Though COVID-19 was first recognized in China in December 2019, President Trump’s priorities in the three years leading up to the outbreak put the […]

On July 13 of 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy III died by suicide from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nearly 3 years after his death, Roy’s girlfriend Michelle Carter was convicted for involuntary manslaughter after incriminating text messages and phone calls between the two showed Carter encouraging Roy to commit suicide. Some of […]

For the past three years, I’ve been keeping track of employee turnover in the Trump administration using a spreadsheet and an eagle eye on the latest news. While many media outlets have reported on this administration’s high turnover, there has not been a comprehensive list of every detail of every […]

The recently-released Inspector General’s report reviewing FBI and DOJ conduct during the Russia investigation focused largely on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who was the subject of four FISA warrants, allowing the government to surveil Page and his communications. FBI missteps To be sure, the report provides plenty of […]

Since Democrats took over the House of Representatives almost twelve months ago, Americans have read story after story about Congressional Committees heading to court to fight for documents and evidence relating to potential misconduct by President Donald Trump. Some of the evidence relates to conduct that took place while he […]

Since news of the whistleblower complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, the framing of the Ukraine scandal has been straight-forward: Trump, in his official capacity as president, attempted to pressure a foreign leader into benefitting Trump’s political campaign. Indeed, the Key Findings section in House Intelligence Committee’s Report […]