TODAY'S TOP STORIES - February 20, 2017

Paul Krugman Blasts Trump's Economic Arrogance

By Ilana Novick, AlterNet

In Trumpworld, Krugman writes, "numbers are what you want them to be, and anything else is fake news." READ MORE»


Milo Yiannopoulous Defends Sex Between Children and Adults in Unearthed Video

By Kali Holloway, AlterNet

This year's CPAC speaker says 13 years olds can consent to sex with those twice their age or more.  READ MORE»


Robert Reich: Why Trumponomics Will Fail Spectacularly

By Robert Reich, RobertReich.org

It's pure fantasy. READ MORE»


Criminalization & Trump's ICE Raids: Two Immigrant Rights Organizers Facing Deportation Speak Out

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

"Under the Obama administration... there were still certain rules and regulations that they sort of upheld... they did not deport me." READ MORE»


AlterNet Comics: Matt Bors on Donald Trump's Golf Club Diplomacy

By Matt Bors, AlterNet

Our president would never let a national emergency get in the way of a good golf selfie.  READ MORE»


John Oliver: Trump's Crazy Week Has Been Like Watching Someone 'Shoot Firecrackers out of Their A**'

By David Ferguson, Raw Story

Fake terror attacks, threatening the media, a few unhinged rants: all in a week's work for the leader of the free world.  READ MORE»


NRA and Republicans Find Unlikely Ally on Rollback of Gun Control Rule: Science

By Lois Beckett, The Guardian

Donald Trump is set to sign into law a reversal of an Obama policy to bar certain mentally ill people from owning guns. Researchers and civil rights activists agree. READ MORE»


Top 10 Hollywood Presidents You'd Probably Rather Have in the White House Right Now

By Gary M. Kramer, Salon

There has to be one POTUS in this round-up that'll make everybody happy. READ MORE»


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