President Trump wants Tuesday’s midterm elections to be about immigration. The idea of criminal brown people invading the United States is abstract enough for him to propagandize the issue to no end. An issue like health care is not, but that hasn’t stopped the president from claiming the GOP will …
Read More »Michelle Obama on #MeToo, 2020 and Her Buddy George Bush
Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions may have cost his hotel empire oodles of money, he may have lost some of his best friends, and he may ultimately be forced to pay tens of millions in back taxes, but, hey, at least he’ll have a lifetime supply of Altoids when this is …
Read More »Fox News Is Peddling Conspiracy Theories to Defend Brett Kavanaugh
It didn’t take long for Kavanaugh apologists to put on their tin foil hats as part of their feverish effort to exonerate Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee. On Thursday afternoon, the Washington Post published an opinion piece wondering if Kavanaugh’s accuser,Christine Blasey Ford, is so “mixed up” that she confused …
Read More »Inside Trump's Judicial Takeover
One evening last November, Don McGahn, the top lawyer in the Trump White House, walked onstage in an opulent ballroom at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. He looked out at the audience of several hundred judges, lawyers, clerks and law students seated under a pair of glittering chandeliers that …
Read More »A Deep Dive Into the Deep State: Unpacking the Summer of Trump Conspiracy Theories
There was never any collusion, and if there was, that’s not a crime. What there was, in fact, were two FBI agents, high off malice and the malodorous fumes of their illicit sexual affair, sending thousands of texts that show them conspiring to clear Hillary Clinton of criminal charges, in …
Read More »The Trump Administration Was Ordered to Stop Drugging Kids in Custody
Even before the Trump administration took the dramatic and punitive step of separating migrant children from their parents in April, some 10,000 undocumented kids were already languishing in federal custody for an average of eight months. They’re housed in shelters scattered around the country, operated by dozens of private companies …
Read More »The Power of a Theater Performance in Prison
As Charles Moore surveyed the room, the small black stage lit by late afternoon light streaming through the wall of windows overlooking the Hudson, he felt a mess of emotions. About 240 people, including staff from Senator Cory Booker’s office, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance …
Read More »Trump's War on Endangered Species
This week, the U.S. Department of Interior released a plan to essentially gut the Endangered Species Act, one of the most popular and powerful environmental laws on the books. The fact that we have any grizzly bears, blue whales, gray wolves and dozens of other iconic species left on our …
Read More »Rep. Jim Jordan Is Named in New OSU Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
In the two weeks since former Ohio State wrestlers began to make public allegations about being repeatedly molested and assaulted by team doctor Richard Strauss, Congressman Jim Jordan – who spent eight years as an assistant wrestling coach at the school – has repeatedly claimed any suggestion that he was …
Read More »'The President Is Acting as if the Russians Have Something on Him. There's Just No Other Way to Describe It'
The question has hung over the Republican Party for nearly two years: What will it take for GOP leaders to call bullshit on President Trump’s refusal to acknowledge Russia’s attacks on American democracy? The answer became slightly clearer Monday in the hours followingTrump’s joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in …
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