Whenever I spoke with Gloria Steinem on my program over the years, I always got a sense of a person with incredible charisma, intellect, and a real grasp of what power was and how to use it. She was a force of nature.When the announcement that she’d passed away at 92 hit the news last week, it perfe…
President Donald Trump’s nearly two-hour speech Wednesday night was packed with claims, and CNN’s Daniel Dale spent Thursday morning sorting out which ones held up.The 80-year-old president told the crowd at the Republican midterm convention that “we got eggs down lower than during my administration…
President Donald Trump floated $5,000 “dividend” checks to each adult American citizen if Republicans win the midterm elections, but CNN’s Audie Cornish poured cold water on his pledge.The 80-year-old president promised the payouts Wednesday night at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, sayi…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will have another difficult war to win if Democrats take back the House in November, according to a new report. Democrats are plotting a “blitz” of public inquiries and might even try to impeach him, Politico reported Thursday. “Hegseth and crew better buckle up and la…
Jimmy Kimmel says the Trump administration’s pressure campaign has claimed another casualty.A planned Thursday interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will now air only on YouTube instead of ABC, according to The Daily Beast.The move echoes last year’s clash, when Trump-appoi…
A Wisconsin Republican running for Congress just publicly trashed his own party’s gubernatorial nominee for skipping a national GOP convention in Texas, exposing fresh cracks in the state party as it heads into a tense midterm cycle.Tiffany, who’s running for Wisconsin governor, is staying home from…
Irish folklore has an old notion — one that can be interpreted as fun or profound — that certain weird or inexplicable circumstances are often “found along the fairy path.” More importantly, the phrase is entirely neutral; Irish lore teaches that one isn’t guaranteed to find a good-natured fairy wav…
Attorney General Todd Blanche offered a full-blown political screed at the Dallas GOP convention on Wednesday night — punctuating his speech with a threat of continued legal crackdowns.Throughout his speech, Blanche defended some of the Trump administration’s most controversial moves, like its depor…
A political analyst warned that Democrats face a greater likelihood of a “juicy” scenario after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) appeared at the GOP convention.Fetterman appeared in a video played at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday and praised a bipartisan effort to boost the steel indus…
The Trump administration’s Justice Department Civil Rights Division caught Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson off guard with a letter announcing she was under investigation for breaking federal voting laws.Henderson, a conservative Republican, took to social media in response to the letter to say, “‘As …