During his 2024 presidential campaign, convicted fraudster Billy McFarland reportedly helped President Donald Trump get celebrity endorsements. McFarland is best known for co-organizing the Fyre Festival, a 2017 concert infamous for not delivering its promised performers, providing unsafe accommodat…
As President Donald Trump began his takeover of the Justice Department, it was revealed that anyone who touched any part of the investigations into him would be fired. The purge of prosecutors began. But it also extended into the FBI. While a group of DOJ lawyers came together to help each other, th…
President Donald Trump is low on options to sell the war that most voters already see as a “disaster,” and as one former naval officer wrote for The Hill, the last option he is stuck with now is to try and “spin the narrative” in his own favor.Beyond his naval service, Harlan Ullman has had an exten…
Russia is now bombing NATO countries, and it appears that President Donald Trump is asleep at the wheel. Writing on Monday, MS NOW producer Steve Benen sounded the alarm about an incoming disaster visible on the horizon. A Wall Street Journal report last week quoted several world leaders in Europe a…
Alabama is working to redraw its congressional maps in time for the 2026 midterm elections, but it has run into several barriers. Monday, it was due to a brick wall of their own making. Last week, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Alabama could use a legislative district map found to…
A prominent economist has calculated the overall cost of President Donald Trump’s Iran war on American consumers, boiled it down to how much it is costing each U.S. household, and is issuing a warning on the economy.Dr. Mark Zandi is the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics and the co-founder of Eco…
With Congress returning to session this week, Republicans are juggling several crises of President Donald Trump’s making as the party struggles over contradictory priorities. Faced with many problems that have few solutions, Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman says the GOP is in a “very bad jam.”As …
During Barack Obama’s presidency, Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling served as commander of U.S. Army Europe. The 72-year-old Hertling is now retired from active duty, but he is keeping busy offering military analysis for MS NOW and the conservative website The Bulwark. And Hertling, in The Bulwark, argues that…
The Trump-aligned Freedom 250 concert series has been a disaster weeks before it even started, and according to the hosts at The Bulwark, not even the president’s staunchest MAGA allies were happy about the line-up of “washed up has-beens.” Last week, Freedom 250 announced a series of free concerts …
After two U.S. citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, were fatally shot during the Trump administration’s immigration raids in Minneapolis in January, Greg Bovino was removed as the U.S. Border Patrol leader of those operations. Now, according to a USA Today’s Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy USA To…