HED: Trump DOJ investigating Nixon prosecutors is not AI slop without picturesI was 10 years old in 1974 when my great-great-grandmother turned 100. Richard Nixon, then president, sent her a congratulatory letter with his signature at the bottom. She gave it to me because even then I was obsessed wi…
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Donald Trump learned how to manipulate the media while instilling distrust in it directly from his Daddy Vladdy Putin. Beginning in 2015, when Trump ousted a Univision reporter from a press conference, what started as a simmer became a roiling boil that led to his petty, arbitrary, and unconstitutio…
It occurs to me that we don’t know much about former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, beyond the obvious: lost a congressional campaign, pregnant to a rich guy she later married, stumbled as press secretary, especially at first, and then got out with a veteran’s sense of timing. The abo…
Over the last 20 months, Republican majorities in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate have subordinated themselves to the president of the United States. They abrogated their Article 1 responsibilities as a co-equal branch of the federal government to carry water for the convicted felon in the White Hous…
They’re at it again. The billionaires who own and run the GOP — including the billionaire in the White House and the billionaires in his Cabinet — are throwing out another desperate “let’s buy some votes” scheme by sending a million Americans their own money.According to the White House, over the ne…
Former Trump-pet Marjorie Taylor Greene has somehow reinvented herself as some sort of truth-teller and is even garnering praise from liberals for how forthcoming she’s being about Republicans and her former boss. Yet this is still her pinned tweet. That would be the s…
In 1998, Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, a truly loathsome character at the time but now almost angelic in comparison to today’s characters, told the Indianapolis Star that Bill Clinton was “a scumbag” and that’s why he was “after him.”It was a really big deal. It sent shock waves through Washington. I …
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was being hoisted as a potential 2028 vice president pick — until this slam-dunk disaster.Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
You can hear it in their voices, the words they use, the issues brought up, the frustration evolving into tinged anger, and the conviction — no more, you’re pushing it, really pushing it. Republican senators have been talking about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth a lot more lately, and that’s bad …
If only Trump’s devoted MAGA could use this to fuel their trucks. Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.