After progressives, including self-described Democratic Socialists, won numerous primary victories in New York and elsewhere, President Donald Trump launched a whopper of a lie, even by his crazed standards. He declared that the “communist” Democratic Socialists are “the biggest threat to our nation…
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I’ve never been much of a gambler. I think it’s a waste of time, and I just don’t enjoy it. Money has never gotten my pulse up. And if I’m honest, the times I’ve proverbially thrown the dice, I’ve always lost.Every time I’ve sat down at a table telling myself this is the round I get ahead, I’ve walk…
MAGA is raging about Trump “losing” after the Supreme Court voted to strike down his racist and xenophobic birthright citizenship ban. They’re also big mad at Melania Trump for not hating transgender women nearly as much as they do. The Red Hat Death Squad is so in love with their hate, and they hat…
Hundreds of people died last month across Europe from the heat; they’re a symptom of a larger problem that governments around the world have failed to address — that goes far beyond simply global warming — and that the Trump regime is making far worse.Its foundation is one of the most troubling aspe…
Hooray, we’re free! Screw you, England!Now what?When Benjamin Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention and said we’d been given “a republic, if you can keep it,” is there any doubt he was talking about 2026 America?Taking stock of where we are—on our nation’s 250th birthday—we’re not exac…
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
America turns 250 this year. If you were around for the bicentennial in 1976 you probably remember it like I do. I was an 11 year-old preteen obsessed with presidents but not yet old enough to understand the experiment called democracy I was celebrating.I remember red, white and blue everywhere. In …
If you’re feeling that the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States has been hijacked by a narcissistic, political hack, you’re not alone. Instead of a joyous event for all Americans, our holiday has been plagued by vicious attacks on those who haven’t drunk the Make America Great …
This column grimly spent a spring predicting a dark summer of possible chaos and violence, an administration on the move, power grabs at every turn, one preparing for an unpredictable but authoritarian fall season. We would endure a lot of hot weather, late nights, some dangerous dynamics, and Kalsh…
Somewhere inside the White House right now, there’s a federal intelligence report sitting in a drawer, and Trump’s lickspittles who put it there are betting you won’t see it before you vote in November.It’s an assessment of the security of America’s voting machines, produced by the Office of the Dir…