Thirty years ago, I had my first job in PR, at a small Midtown Manhattan firm. This was before HR complaints were really a thing, which was lucky for the managing director, because his behavior would have gotten him fired a dozen times over.He was also one of the most offensive human beings I have e…
Category: Opinion
Trump, his billionaire buddies, and his Republican lickspittles appear to be setting up a possible massive fraud with regard to this fall’s election. It could signal the end of American democracy.We democracy-loving Americans have fought oligarchy three times on these shores, roughly every 80 years….
It’s just so exhausting to live in the dumbest timeline in global history. I could give you a decade’s worth of examples of MAGA stupidity, and we could spend the next 1,000 words debating over which is the dumbest of the dupes deployed by Dumb Donald’s Deplorables. For me, it was the sight of eve…
The latest from Raw Story’s Nick Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Just when we think Donald Trump has exhausted the ways a person can transform the presidency into an ongoing fundraising scheme, we’re given fresh new evidence that he’s barely scratched the surface.I swear I thought I was hallucinating when I read last weekend that Trump’s social media company had …
We have a lot of metaphors for it; the camel’s nose under the tent, the foot in the door, where there’s smoke there’s fire, and the handwriting on the wall, among others. Every police state in history started this way. As the White House declared last week in a press release:“Under the leadership of…
Ed Luce of The Straits Times/Financial Times recently argued, like so many other conservative and liberal commentators do, that the Democratic Party was missing a golden opportunity in the upcoming midterm elections due to its internal squabbling, stalled approval ratings, and a failure to effective…
The Trump administration has put Americans through such a dizzying array of near-daily corruption so deep that a U.S. president somehow makes over two billion dollars while in office – impossible without obliterating conflicts of interest – that many of us, even the most attentive, have been somewha…
I quit drinking almost five years ago, otherwise I’d be writing this column blind drunk after watching yesterday’s revolting performance from Pete Hegseth in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee.Instead, I’m blind with outrage and disgust at the pithiness of the pathetic Hegseth.In between b…
Threatening to call President Donald Trump to fix some manifestly just and earned punishment has become somewhat of its own sport of late. And no, this piece isn’t about the appearance of pay for pardons — although, in a sense, maybe it kinda is.We have run into a spate of Trump-adjacent superstars …