The Labor Department reported this morning that the United States added 162,000 jobs in August. That’s more than expected, especially given how few jobs the country has added over the last few months.But I want to let you in on a little secret (which shouldn’t be secret): Monthly jobs reports are no…
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Maria Bartiromo turns 59 next week and Fox News gave her an early — and, might I add, well-deserved — birthday present. They fired her.As I began writing this column soon after the announcement, I clicked on her staff bio, and a message appeared that said, “something has gone wrong.”Wow, that’s for …
Maria Bartiromo, aka the “MAGA Money Dummy,” left Fox News on Thursday after 12 years of lying on its airwaves, resulting in shockwaves throughout the MAGA world. Bartiromo has long been a favorite of Trump’s, with him frequently calling into her show, Mornings with Maria, to spew a fresh new pack o…
We’ve known all along that the Trump administration would be declaring war on voting by mail as the primary means of sabotaging and stealing the November midterms, so no expressions of shock, please.Outrage? Sure. There’s already more than enough of that to go around. But let’s also understand that …
The latest casualty of Pete Hegseth’s disastrous tenure as Secretary of “War” is Dan Driscoll, who resigned Monday as Secretary of the Army after repeatedly clashing with the Heg.Driscoll isn’t a liberal in lion’s clothing. He’s an old friend of JD Vance from Yale Law days. He resigned because of hi…
There is a question Democrats should be asking themselves before the November midterm elections, and it is more uncomfortable than simply asking whether they can win.What happens if they do?More specifically: What will Democrats do if voters hand them control of Congress?The fact that this question …
What should we Americans do when it comes out that our Secretary of Defense has been committing crimes in plain sight and nobody in the administration seems concerned about it?Back in 2008, New York Times reporter David Barstow revealed that the Pentagon under George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, startin…
President Donald Trump shows off his Dolly Parton-inspired coat of many colors. Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Last Thursday, a federal judge in Massachusetts put her foot down and stopped Trump’s Republican toadies on the Postal Board of Governors from seizing control of your mail-in ballot this fall. She noted that neither the Constitution nor Congress gives him or them that power and, besides that, there’…
While every week under the Trump regime feels like a test of our collective endurance, this past week also broke our hearts with the double-whammy losses of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry within 24 hours. GenX is having a particularly difficult time, because we literally grew up with both of them before…