Online critics are blasting U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum’s press team for politicizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool by comparing now-dead algae, which reached five-year-high levels, to the remnants of the Iranian Navy — all while taking a swipe at President Barack Obama.Accordi…
Georgetown Law School Professor Steve Vladeck has some assumptions about why the U.S. Supreme Court may have put off President Donald Trump’s appeal of the E. Jean Carroll settlement a whopping 15 times. Writing for his Substack, Vladeck recalled that Trump filed a “cert petition” last November. A c…
President Donald Trump’s costly attempt to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has blown up in his face, with the Daily Beast reporting that he is now taking drastic emergency steps to fix the algae bloom before July 4.As part of his broader campaign to renovate and remodel Washington D.C….
On Wednesday, June 17, U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian digitally signed a memo aimed at ending the war against Iran (which Trump launched in late February) and reopening the Strait of Hormuz — a Middle Eastern waterway vital to the flow of oil in that part of the …
Vice President JD Vance has the bad luck of trying to sell another book at the same time that he’s being put in charge of a much-maligned deal to end the war in Iran. But one strategist thinks the real intention is to cover up who the actual architect was. CNN’s Audie Cornish closed her Thursday sho…
Republicans continue to rip President Donald Trump’s latest Iran deal to shreds, according to a new report from The Hill, with at least one lawmaker saying that “Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his grave” in reaction to it.This week, details began to emerge about the latest peace deal signed by off…
I will not repeat what that UFC fighter said about Michelle Obama. Instead, I will say Josh Hokit did more than reiterate a “conspiracy theory,” as USA Today put it. It cannot be “debunked,” as there is no real question about the former first lady’s gender. What he did was defamation, plain and simp…
Psychologist Mary Trump often argues that her uncle, President Donald Trump — for all his bluster — is deeply insecure and needs constant validation. New York Times opinion writers Bret Stephens and Frank Bruni examine those “titanic insecurities” in a Q&A-style; discussion, arguing that Trump’s tro…
To remind you, here’s what Trump said on “Meet the Press” that aired on June 7:“The [2020] election was rigged. It was a dirty election … And it’s happening again right now in California…. they’re cheating on the election. … they’re crooked…. You know that these elections are rigged. … Your election…
Intelligencer columnist Ed Kilgore says Republicans derived a benefit from chaining themselves to President Donald Trump over the last decade, but they are definitely not the party to envy anymore. If anything, they’re living “a total nightmare.”“[The year] 2026 has been even worse for [Sen.] John T…