We are now under 100 days until the midterms, and Republican strategists and GOP leaders have all come to the same conclusion for their caucus: keep Donald Trump’s name out of your mouth, and ostensibly keep him off the campaign trail.Operatives close to the White House are reportedly telling incumb…
Category: Opinion
There are plenty of things I’ve never understood about the people who’ve chosen loyalty to Donald Trump over the United States of America. I don’t have the space to list every single reason he never should’ve been allowed to run again in 2020, let alone 2024, but let’s remain in the present for now….
Friends,I want to start today with a warning about “charitable giving” and end with a primer on wealth inequality. The two are closely related, as I’ll explain.We’re on the cusp of the biggest gusher of “charitable giving” in history. Beware.We tend to think of “charitable giving” as unambiguously g…
I am so done with this whole Mitch McConnell thing.We’re now past six weeks of this ridiculous crap, and the silence surrounding the Kentucky senator’s condition long ago eclipsed the point of disturbing to become completely absurd and intolerable. But that just seems to be the Republican way. All w…
There’s a hypothesis I can’t shake after years of observations.Alabama Republicans are getting bad at politics.So far, that hasn’t threatened their hegemony. The party controls all state offices; holds seven of the state’s nine congressional seats and enjoys supermajorities in the Alabama Legislatur…
If you’ve been finding yourself swooning lately over the clips of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) calmly and methodically bulldozing Republicans facing Senate questioning, welcome to the “Senator My Boo” Club, my friends. Movie-star handsome and charismatic, Ossoff was given the moniker by political powerho…
A high-ranking official in President Donald Trump’s administration was subjected to ridicule and scorn Sunday after he struggled to answer basic questions.CNN anchor Dana Bash asked White House Border Czar Tom Homan about Immigration Control and Enforcement officers in Texas and Maine who fatally s…
It’s hard to believe that we’re less than two months away from the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, that horrible day when war arrived at our doorstep.One thing that’s always stuck in my head was the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers onboard the four jets that wreaked such deadly havoc were citi…
Pete Hegseth has not held a Pentagon press conference since May 5. That’s more than two and a half months of silence while the U.S. fights a war. The administration is claiming some of the past few weeks fell under a “ceasefire.”That’s just another in a long line of lies and excuses about its fatall…
In an early victory for President Donald Trump’s protection racket, the leaders of nine prestigious Big Law firms collectively paid almost $1 billion and sacrificed their professional integrity to secure peace with his administration—or so they thought.They were wrong.In June 2025, the American Bar …