Friends,Trump’s Department of Injustice Justice has opened a criminal investigation into writer E. Jean Carroll.First, some background:In 2022, Carroll alleged that a chance encounter with Trump in at Bergdorf Goodman’s Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s ended violently — that Trump sl…
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Almost 250 years ago, our Founding Fathers survived a brutal war and established a new nation where all could live free from the oppression of the King of England. We take time every July 4th to remember what the early settlers lived through to create a new nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to…
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Friends,I do not wish Trump ill. While he hasn’t shown a shred of compassion for anyone other than himself, this doesn’t justify our lacking compassion for him.It’s also in the interest of America and the world that he be physically and mentally able to discharge the duties of his office.So we have …
There is nothing that Donald Trump and his corrupt cronies would love more than to rewrite history and make January 6, 2021, into nothing more than an overhyped little protest rather than the violent insurrection that everyone knows it was.So it’s vitally important that we continue to scream and sto…
Donald Trump loves the words sleazebag and scumball, so much so that he’s surrounded himself with the very definition of those two offensive terms. And it’s hard to be more offensive than Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, unless you’re Donald Trump, of course.Last night, Paxton, impeached, indi…
America has 51 billionaires who made their money from our profit-driven healthcare system, the only one in the developed world. It’s not only obscene that they’re taking so much money from so many of us who have so little; it’s also killing all of us.We’re among the worst — and most expensive — heal…
The unofficial start to summer in the Northeast was a washout, cold, damp, murky, and gray. It was, in retrospect, the perfect meteorological metaphor for what Donald Trump is doing to nuclear negotiations with Iran: a drenching, dispiriting mess with no sun in sight.While millions of Americans were…
There has been a tremor in the political force. Can you feel it?President Donald Trump is tempting his presidential fate, having gotten away with literally everything he’s ever done in his political and personal life, even a civil judgment for sexual abuse and a violent attempted coup on the Capitol…
Friends,Robbie was the kindest person I ever knew.I met him in our dormitory the day we entered college in 1964. He saw me struggling to carry my big luggage crates up the two flights of stairs to my dorm room and, without saying a word, grabbed one and hauled it to the second floor.“Thank you!” I s…