A new Economist/YouGov poll of registered voters that just came out this week found that the top two words that Americans across the board endorse to describe Donald Trump are “corrupt” (53%) and “dangerous” (51%). Not even half of registered Republican voters were willing to call him “honest.”This …
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I’ve heard enough this past week about AI – or as Linda McMahon calls it, A1 — taking over the world and annihilating all human beings that it’s frankly left me kind of worried. I mean, how pathetic would it be if we were able to conquer fear, hate and disease, but we fell prey to software programs?…
I keep thinking about that haunting photograph of Donald Trump, framed in the window of his gilded new Air Force One, looking at poster boards prepared for him by the foolhardy lackey Bill Pulte and apparently unaware that he could be seen.It’s an unforgettable image because it captured something I …
Trump has now repeatedly offered his voters $5,000 checks if Republicans hold onto the House and Senate this fall, calling it the “Trump dividend.” Last week, he told a rally that it’ll “happen 100 percent” if enough people turn out to vote GOP.Since his own party controls both houses of Congress an…
The New York Times described last week how foreign investors and allies are getting cold feet about the U.S. economy. Every other day, Trump imposes another nonsensical tariff, threatens the rule of law, lies about Iran, and remains clueless about how these actions affect the economy.The Trumpapaloo…
There are plenty of ways to exercise power in Washington. Pass legislation. Kill legislation. Twist arms. Control committees. Bury investigations. Force votes. Block votes.And then there’s Mike Johnson’s preferred method:Everybody go home.Under Speaker Johnson, the House has repeatedly canceled sche…
A man with a third grader’s intellect says all we need to regulate AI is a smart president. The same guy who will bark ‘hoax! hoax! hoax!’ at climate change while Mar a Lago takes on water now insists that efforts to regulate AI are also a hoax. If Americans listen to this barking clown instead of s…
As the polling keeps cratering for Republicans, red districts tilting to purple, purple states turning blue, and blue states turning to midnight blue, some pundits have been saying that Donald Trump doesn’t actually care about the midterms.Jonathan Swan was on Deadline White House with Nicolle Walla…
Kash Patel had the most bizarre Capitol Hill grilling this week — and it left even MAGA bewildered.Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
I heard once, not sure where, but it sticks in my head, that a junior writer asked legendary Chicago-based columnist Mike Royko how he was able to write a column every single day. He replied something to the effect of, “Write about what makes you angry.”I think about that anecdote often — actually, …