Beth Van Duyne

Matthew Yglesias @ Vox: The wild corruption of Trump’s golf courses deserves more scrutiny. Amanda Hollis-Brusky & Calvin TerBeek @ Politico: The Federalist Society Says It’s Not an Advocacy Organization.

Yesterday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced its appointment of Beth Van Duyne, the outgoing mayor of Irving, Texas, to be a “regional administrator overseeing Texas and its four surrounding states.” In 2015 Van Duyne received national attention for falsely claiming that a Sh

Last week, GOP leaders including Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin attended a rally hosted by Frank Gaffney, the head of the Center for Security Policy and an unabashed anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist. Gaffney reacted today to the controversy over the arrest of Texas 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed

Earlier this week, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed of Irving, Texas, brought a digital clock he made from a pencil case to his school.