Tag: Julian Assange

Rachel Maddow reports on how new revelations about an executive from Cambridge Analytica, the data firm hired by the Donald Trump campaign, meeting with Julian Assange, and the firm's use of data from a Russia-sponsored academic. » Subscribe to MSNBC:…

Several congressional leaders attended classified briefings with Justice Department officials on the FBI’s use of an informant in the Russia investigation. Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign adviser, reportedly sought information on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in September 2016. Trump signed legislation easing restrictions on all but the largest banks, the biggest rollback of regulations since the global financial crisis. ‘The War on Stupid People’: Americans have come to value intelligence as the ultimate indicator of human worth. That has to stop, argues David H. Freedman. Snapshot What We’re Reading Good Riddance: President Trump was right to walk away from the negotiating table with Kim Jong Un, writes Ben Shapiro. America shouldn’t have been touting a meeting with the world’s worst dictator in the first place, he argues. (Slate) Something’s Off: Trump’s critics agree that American democracy is under threat. Some say it’s due to eroding norms, but there could be another reason: Capitalism is failing. (Eric Levitz, New York) White Flight: A new study shows that white Americans are leaving the Democratic Party in droves.