President Donald Trump’s political movement has been widely compared to a cult — and now billboards in Tennessee are offering adherents a way out.“Having Doubts? You Are Not Alone,” proclaims the advertisement for the website “Leaving MAGA” along Nashville’s Interstate 40, according to a report by T…
President Donald Trump has consistently received staunch support from farmers, who remain among his most loyal constituents to this day. Yet they have taken economic hit after economic hit from his policies of mass deportations, unprecedented tariffs and a war against Iran that has raised prices on …
No sooner did news break last week that a New Orleans grand jury had indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, Gov. Jeff Landry got on social media and promised to pardon her.But now Baton Rouge, La. newspaper The Advocate says Landry may have loused up his own promise with his hard-on-crime anti-pardo…
MAGA is getting more and more weird, says the Bulwark crew of Tim Miller, Sam Stein and Will Sommer. But MAGA’s talent for blaming others for their personal depravities remains unchanged.MAGA social media influencer Gian Rachtelli, 54, was charged with lewd, indecent and obscene acts on the National…
The “partisan split” of Americans showed up in a big way at Fourth of July celebrations and backyard barbecues last week, but the media, while noting or even complaining about it, rarely mentions exactly why it’s happening.A few weeks ago, Louise and I were having coffee with an old friend who’s kno…
In the winter of 1986 while living in West Germany I visited East Berlin with my oldest daughter, who was still a teenager, and on the far side of Checkpoint Charlie we were picked up by a young man named Torsten who ran a gypsy cab. Before we’d gone more than a block he had the two of us rehearsing…
One of the recent dust-ups at the NATO summit this week centered around NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Wednesday when a Dutch reporter asked how he maintains any self-respect while placating President Donald Trump. Foreign policy writer Elizabeth Saunders spoke with The New Republic’s Greg Sargen…
The New Republic reports an MS NOW journalist may have struck a nerve in the Trump administration after reporting that President Donald Trump ditched his new Qatari jet for security reasons. MS NOW’s Carol Leonnig reported Wednesday evening that the president unexpectedly swapped his luxurious $400 …
In a normal presidential administration, the kooks get corralled far away from the president’s ear so they can do the least damage and annoy the minimum amount of serious people. But that was in other more responsible administrations, said Miles Taylor, President Donald Trump’s first-term whistleblo…
The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran has eroded over the past week, and according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, the reason for the breakdown is “not exactly surprising” and involves a central “flaw in the MOU.”According to the Journal, “The root of the dispute is Paragraph 5, which s…