Okay, we’ve now gone through the bitter-sweet 250th anniversary. Now let’s get to work. Every day brings more news of Trump’s greed, incompetence, cruelty, and criminality. Raking in $2.2 billion in his first year in office, much of it siphoned off from taxpayers and gullible followers. His Iran deb…
A former professor at the US Naval War College denounced President Donald Trump’s 4th of July speech for showing disrespect to Gold Star families, or immediate relatives of soldiers who died on active duty.“Oh my God,” wrote The Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols on the social media platform X. “Trum…
President Donald Trump’s mounting failures are doomed to drag down the rest of the Republican Party with him, his one-time biographer argued this week, with his tanking economy and obsession with his own self-interest set to bring on major midterm defeats.Michael Wolff is a longtime reporter and aut…
President Donald Trump is sending a “dangerous” message to America’s allies, as is his MAGA team, according to a recent editorial by a conservative publication.“President Trump has been gearing up for this week’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit by complaining that the alliance is a ripoff,…
President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement have caused a major disruption in the partisan nature of “patriotism,” according to an extensive new report from Politico, mirroring a similar shift caused by the far right on a global scale.On Sunday, Politico reported on the findings of its latest poll,…
A former adviser to President George W. Bush is accusing the following Republican leader, President Donald Trump, of creating a culture of racism in America — as captured by a single photograph.Describing a photograph in which members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front stood around a seemi…
President Donald Trump was dealt another bruising loss from the Supreme Court on one of his biggest political goals, and as one GOP strategist argued for MS NOW, the typical backlash from his MAGA supporters was “especially galling” this time around, and called into question the movement’s treatment…
In the classic 1950 film “Sunset Boulevard,” aging silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) pretends that Hollywood is still as it was when she was at her peak, creating a grotesque charade that obscures unpleasant realities. Drawing from rumors that this is President Donald Trump’s favorite …
President Donald Trump has done nearly incalculable damage to the federal government and the guardrails meant to rein in corruption, but as two legal scholars revealed for The Hill this week, his “most consequential casualties” are a key group of employees that some may not have heard of.Published S…
When President Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act, opponents accused the new bill of including “death panels.” Now President Donald Trump is including measures that by the same logic could also be considered death panels — and, according to a conservative commentator, those same critics are…