At one point in “Pressure,” meteorologist James Stagg (Andrew Scott) explains to General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) that an impending storm will make it impossible for the Allied troops to successfully invade Normandy as planned. As he attempts to break down the meteorology, his competing…
It’s impossible to understand American politics without also understanding the American economy (and vice versa). Politics and economics may be different disciplines, but they’re two sides of the same coin. This came home to me again when I saw Thursday’s report on the U.S. gross domestic product. N…
Sooner or later in every armed conflict, someone will trot out the well-worn aphorism that “Truth is the first casualty of war.” And certainly, in the Iran war truth beat a hasty retreat as soon as the US and Israel launched their attacks on Iran and Lebanon on February 28.But what was meant to be a…
President Donald Trump spent six hours on late Saturday seemingly doing nothing but posting on his Truth Social account — and many of those posts seemed to reinforce the notion his priorities are out of whack with those of the American public.“President Donald Trump spent much of Saturday flooding T…
In its landmark 6-3 immunity decision, the Supreme Court created a three-tiered framework under which presidents are absolutely immune from claims arising from their exclusive constitutional authority. They are entitled to presumptive immunity for all other official acts within the ‘outer perimeter’…
When polls show President Donald Trump with low approval ratings, there is a major caveat: He is still quite popular with his hardcore MAGA base. And his stranglehold on the GOP was evident when some conservatives he was angry with — including Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) and at least five state …
Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi argues numbers don’tt lie, and right now they’re saying the president is sinking in popularity even with his own previously diehard supporters.MS NOW anchor Chris Hayes reported another brutal week of polling for President Donald Trump, with Trump rolling in at nea…
I can’t overstate the importance of Judge Kathleen Williams’s decision on Friday to reopen Trump’s $10 billion case against the I.R.S. She said she wants to investigate “grievous allegations” that the hasty deal to resolve it was “premised on deception,” and she ordered Trump’s lawyers to tell her b…
What do you do when you’re a president with a birthday party being abandoned by all the entertainment? If you’re President Donald Trump you offer to fill the hole yourself.“I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing t…
Bulwark founder Sarah Longwell and writer Jonathan Last say President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 debacle is unraveling fast as nearly all big names on the playlist have leapt from windows to avoid the Trump stain. But both agree that this kind of chaos and collapse is par for the course in Trump’s ‘…