This week, the president canceled a planned attack on Iran intended to pressure the regime into making a deal. Donald Trump said he canceled, because a deal was already close at hand. It was the 39th time he said peace was imminent since the war started. CNN ran a super-cut:The regime denied a deal,…
Tonight, Trump is throwing an 80th birthday bash for himself (he says it’s in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States) with a “Freedom250” Ultimate Fighting Championship cage match on the South Lawn of the White House at 8 p.m. ET. It will be a bloody gladiator fight taking place inside a 6…
I just toured the opulent Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. I love beautiful homes as much as anyone, but this tour didn’t land as intended.To me, America’s largest private residence, one that took 1,000 laborers six years to build, is a testament to inherited wealth and inequality. The lavish indoo…
Sometimes I provide you with information that I hope you’ll find helpful in making arguments with others. I don’t expect that what I share with you will change the minds of committed Trumpers, but the facts and the evidence may have some sway with Republicans and independents who are wavering about …
Economist Justin Wolfers delivered a searing shock to the hosts of MS NOW’s “The Weekend” on Saturday. And his news carried an unnerving warning to the state of the nation’s vulnerable democracy.Government statistics released this week show the annual inflation rate hit 4.2 percent in May — the high…
The Daily Mail reports President Donald Trump’s Republican pick for Alabama’s Senate seat deliberately mischaracterized his military record, according to the candidate’s own staff.Several local Alabama media outlets reported Congressman Barry Moore padded his military record throughout his time in p…
Former prosecutor Barbara McQuade knows mob tactics, and she says she sees the mob in countless aspects of President Donald Trump’s practices.“From 2010 to 2017 she served as the US attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. She has prosecuted high-profile corruption cases, including that of the…
A top national security attorney is pushing back against Donald Trump’s false claim that Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff committed “treason.”The Washington Post on Tuesday published bombshell excerpts of the latest book by Watergate journalist Bob Woodward and Washington …
On Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts, in a not-so-veiled swipe at Donald Trump, stressed that the U.S. Constitution’s “main innovation” was the creation of an independent judiciary. Our constitutional system of government only works, he emphasized, if power shared between the three branches of f…
At the age of 80, President Donald Trump has been plodding around on American dirt for more than 30 percent of the nation’s entire 250-year lifespan.That is no small number, and critics say his advanced years have been bearing down on him as he prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday at taxpayer’s e…