There is a reason why we can’t stop talking about the “president’s” breathtakingly appalling IRS “settlement.” It is not in the slightest hyperbolic to call it the most scandalous and despicable arrangement in American history. And in the era of Trump, that’s really saying something.The $1.776 billi…
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Kentucky’s Thomas Massie, a provocateur libertarian and professional pain-in-the-butt to House leadership and Donald Trump, lost his primary yesterday. That was a foregone conclusion given how Trump’s endorsements have won primaries almost across the board.Those endorsements are going to come back a…
Once upon a time, a reality TV star with a dubious track record of personal bankruptcy, bad business deals, terrible public behavior, and mistreatment of women — but no experience working for the government at any level — decided to run for one of the most high-profile political roles in the country…
Bill Maher and Sen. John Fetterman sat around joking about Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom like a couple of wealthy guys at a country club joking over cocktails as the republic burns outside the window.Maher dismissed the outrage by calling the cost “couch money.” Fetterman rolled his eyes a…
The White House is bizarrely floating the idea of Donald Trump pardoning 250 people on June 14th, a number sinisterly tied to America’s 250th anniversary, a date that also happens to fall on Flag Day.And what a stunning coincidence that June 14th is also the day Donald J. Trump turns 80 years old.Th…
Don’t you miss decency from our politicians? I know I do. There was a time when we didn’t cringe every time the president went out in public.Now, we collectively brace ourselves every time someone puts a microphone in front of Donald Trump, who has made it abundantly and repeatedly clear that he cou…
Friends,Words matter. When describing a government, they inevitably carry moral weight.Over the last 16 months, Trump and his appointees have so profoundly undermined the United States government that we should use different words to describe these people than we’ve used to describe all previous adm…
Mother’s Day has just passed, so it’s an excellent time to examine what the most powerful conservative think tank in America is planning right now for the women in your life.The same outfit that wrote Project 2025 and watched the Trump administration follow its playbook virtually to the letter has b…
If you’ve ever been to Pearl Harbor, you know that the area around the USS Arizona is revered. It is not a recreational dive site. It’s not some playground for pampered, spoiled, and pompous buffoons.It is a military cemetery. Hundreds of American sailors and Marines are entombed beneath its rusted …
Back in 2019, Donald Trump pointed at Hunter Biden’s brief “cup of coffee” with a Chinese banker during a 2013 ride on Air Force Two and turned it into the single biggest line of attack he ran against Joe Biden for the next five years.The grift! The corruption! The selling-out of America! Oh, the hu…