A Close-Up Photo of Donald Trump's Hair

Jordan Sargent · 02/01/16 06:50PM

This is a close-up photo of Donald Trump’s hair, taken by Christopher Furlong of Getty Images, at Gerald W. Kim Middle School in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Jan. 31.

I Bet This Guy Did Something Bad 

Allie Jones · 02/01/16 04:20PM

The Tennessean reports that Rep. Stephen Fincher, a 42-year-old congressman representing Tennessee’s 8th district, will not seek re-election this year. In an emailed statement to the paper, Fincher declined to provide a specific reason for retiring. Uh oh.

Ben Carson's Campaign Is An ATM For His Advisors

Jordan Sargent · 02/01/16 02:36PM

It is not exactly a secret that one convenient feature of Ben Carson’s political campaign is the amount of money it’s willing to pay its advisors and fundraisers. A few weeks ago, Dean Parker, Carson’s top moneyman, walked the plank after a Politico article detailed frustrations within the campaign regarding the cash funneled to companies owned by Parker and his cohorts. Now the campaign’s new FEC filing details the extent to which senior staffers are plundering the doctor’s war chest.

Hundreds of Uber Drivers Are Striking in New York City

J.K. Trotter · 02/01/16 02:25PM

Several hundred New York City-based Uber drivers are collectively striking against the car-sharing startup today, according to fliers distributed to riders over the past few days and a Facebook event page administered by a driver named Farrukh Khamdamov. According to that page’s description, the strike (and an accompanying demonstration at Uber’s Long Island City headquarters) are intended to protest the company’s recent decision to slash ride fares in the New York area by fifteen percent:

Every Candidate’s Impossible First-Day Agendas, Ranked

Ashley Feinberg · 02/01/16 02:03PM

With the Iowa caucuses officially kicking off primary voting season, it won’t be long before a brand new butt is working a fresh groove into Obama’s old chair. In preparation, our various candidates are already hard at work making wild schedules for their first day on the job. And each one is more impossible than the last.

Wall Street's Political Influence Is Growing

Hamilton Nolan · 02/01/16 12:05PM

The latest numbers on presidential campaign donations for this election cycle show that even while all the candidates are vowing to take on Wall Street, the political power of Wall Street’s money is increasing.

CIA Employees Are Pretty Positive Their Bosses Aren't Purposefully Feeding Them Bad Information

Andy Cush · 02/01/16 11:00AM

The Washington Post reported today that the CIA deliberately misinforms its own employees about operations—a practice known as “eyewashing”—so that the juiciest intel can be kept more secretly by those who truly need to know it. In interviews, some CIA officials acknowledged the practice as common, while others were like, what, no, that’s definitely never happened to me.