https://youtu.be/f9m2yReECak
The 2016 BBC documentary by Adam Curtis we talked about on this week’s podcast. You can listen to this week’s podcast below. Or click this sentence.
Special thanks to Joshua Sibelman for bringing it to our attention. Enjoy!
Rose Guidel was in trouble. It was 2009 and the United States was in the grips of the Great Recession. Her brother, who had helped pay the mortgage on her modest home outside of Los Angeles, had been murdered, so she contacted her bank to say her payment would be late. The bank apparently told her…
Far from ending with President-elect Trump’s announcement that he will separate himself from the management of his business empire, the constitutional debate about the meaning of the Emoluments Clause — and whether Trump will be violating it — is likely just beginning. That’s because the Emoluments Clause seems to bar Trump’s ownership of his business. It…
George W. Bush’s White House ‘Lost’ 22 Million Emails
For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clinton’s personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found. But now they at least have the skills and interest to focus on a much larger and deeper email conspiracy, one involving war, lies, a private…
The website of U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s wife Melania appears to have vanished. Since Wednesday afternoon, melaniatrump.com redirects to her husband’s official webpage, dedicated to his real estate business. The news comes just days after critics questioned whether she had lied about her university education. A book published about her life entitled Melania Trump: The…
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