Of all the scandals that have beset the nation during the years of the Trump regime, few have so neatly represented the would-be dictator as his despoliation of the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The overgrowth of green slime caused by Donald Trump’s idioti…
Republicans have gotten away with it four times now, in a big way. Each time it was because Democrats didn’t realize — until it was too late — the crimes the GOP was willing to perpetrate just to seize and hold power.This time, for the first time since 1968, it may be different.In August of 1968, Pr…
Editor’s Note: This article was updated to include a missing quotation mark and correct a typo when spelling “The Guardian.”Speaking for his podcast Can’t Be Censored, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said he is leaving the Republican Party — and he blames President Donald Trump’s ostensible …
After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely.But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed …
Two top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration are teasing “evidence” they have that will vindicate one of the biggest presidential scandals in history. Last month, President Donald Trump’s officials promised that they had evidence of rampant fraud in the 2020 Georgia and Arizona elect…
President Donald Trump reportedly wants to seize the Smithsonian Institution, one of America’s most prestigious collection of museums, and to use them to whitewash the United States’ history on issues like slavery.“When President Trump summoned Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institut…
A conservative commentator argued that President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, instead of seeming all-powerful, are instead appearing to the world as “impotent.”“The state of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is a sort of moron-populist version of Chernobyl,” wrote The Dispatch’s Nick Catog…
When President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, much of the political world was shocked — but a new study reveals one forecasting framework that anticipated that outcome.“Many voters rely on prospective voting, a process of evaluating candidates based on antic…
President Donald Trump has touted his Trump Accounts as a great investment vehicle to help young people build up savings, but one financial reporter argues that they are not living up to his promise.“My 1-year-old son qualifies for a Trump Account, and I’ve opened it to claim the $1,000 government d…
President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is in charge of a MAGA non-profit staffed with Trump loyalists — but apparently they are secretly at each other’s throats.“Since taking over the storied conservative group America’s Future in 2021, retired general Michael Flynn has turned it …