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Opening arguments in Donald Trump’s criminal trial are scheduled to begin today and Trump isn’t taking it well. He was posting late into the night...
Opening arguments in Donald Trump's criminal trial are scheduled to begin today and Trump isn't taking it well. He was posting late into the night on...
The Republican Party has been in such a state of pandemonium for so long that it's hard to imagine what new turns it can take and yet from week to...
It seems like only yesterday that Republican president in exile Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson were pledging fealty to one...
Donald Trump likes to proclaim himself the greatest businessman, greatest president, greatest everything — and none of it is even remotely true....
If there's one thing that characterizes this election season so far, it's that the country remains as polarized as it's ever been in recent history,...
There's been some talk lately about Donald Trump's light campaign schedule compared to President Joe Biden, who's been visiting swing states...
Are you better off than you were four years ago? That question is circulating on social media and cable news every day now in response to the Trump...
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has twisted himself into a pretzel trying to please his fractious caucus and he’s starting to show the...
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has twisted himself into a pretzel trying to please his fractious caucus and he's starting to show the...
Donald Trump, an alleged "master brander," has liberally stolen all of his most famous slogans from other politicians, starting with "Make...
You get the feeling that among the jaded Beltway establishment there is a belief that the horrified reaction against Trump's Hitler analogies is just...
Donald Trump had an epic meltdown on his social media site Trump Social on Tuesday. Even for someone who is prone to ranting and raving in public,...
Back in 2000 when Donald Trump first tested the waters of a presidential campaign by giving a series of speeches as a possible Reform Party candidate,...
Back in 2000 when Donald Trump first tested the waters of a presidential campaign by giving a series of speeches as a possible Reform Party candidate,...
One of Donald Trump’s most famous quotes is from the 2016 campaign when he said, “I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any voters.”...
One of Donald Trump's most famous quotes is from the 2016 campaign when he said," I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any voters." He...
Donald Trump is very proud of his talent for nicknames. In a recent interview in New Hampshire he explained, "I do a lot of names for people, some...
I’ve been following Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s increasing influence on the American far right for some time as he hosted the likes...
I've been following Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's increasing influence on the American far right for some time as he hosted the likes...
Everyone was expecting a historic train wreck of a State of the Union last night and they got it. But it wasn't the one they thought it would be....
As I watched the Super Tuesday returns last night I was struck by exit polls that showed the economy is the most important issue to many Republican...
One of the moldiest political tropes around is the one that says a presidential candidate needs to run to the base during the primaries and then pivot...
I don't care much about the notion of American "dominance" or "prestige" but I do care a lot about the prospect of the planet being blown up and...
Here we are again looking right down the barrel of a government shutdown because one-half of one of the three branches of the federal government is...
Of all the 2024 political events I believed were irrelevant, the GOP primary campaign has been at the top of the list. But I was wrong. As it turns...
One of the most frustrating refrains one hears these days is that the Republican Party has "suddenly" gone crazy — as if it was a spontaneous...
News came last week of the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny last week. He had survived an attempted assassination by poison in 2020 but...
The Biden impeachment inquiry seems to attract witnesses who turn out to be con artists and criminals for some reason. The Republican inquisitors get...
Poor Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna McDaniel. Nobody has debased and humiliated themselves more chasing the approval of Donald Trump....
As we all know, the biggest story in the world is the breaking news that President Joe Biden is old. Sure 9/11 was something of a big deal and the war...
Perhaps someday Democrats will learn their lesson but I'm not holding out much hope at this point. They suffer from an inexplicable habit of allowing...
On Tuesday night, after a long day of very important legal developments for Donald Trump, the former president posted on his Truth Social feed "ALL...
As usual these days, Republicans in Congress are a bubbling cauldron of chaos and dysfunction with wild hearings, inexplicable strategy and internal...
Nobody on planet Earth has more chutzpah than former president Donald Trump. After claiming over and over again that the stock market would crash if...
Generally, it's always fair to assume that the American right wing is 100% hypocritical in all things. They do not practice what they preach — and...
Nikki Haley may not have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the Republican presidential nomination but she's decided she's not going to go...
Donald Trump is having a rolling hissy fit that's escalating by the day. From courtrooms to rallies to incoherent interviews, his behavior is making...
After his win in the Iowa caucuses last week Donald Trump came to the microphone and gave an uncharacteristically gracious victory speech. It was...
Who would ever have guessed that the latest Republican Great Whitebread Hope would crash and burn even before the New Hampshire primary? It's not as...
The Trump juggernaut rolled into Iowa on Monday and won what the media is calling a "historic" victory. He garnered 51% of the vote while his closest...
Here we go again. The House Republicans are running around in circles, unable to agree among themselves about what they were sent to Washington to do...
The idea that former President Donald Trump was performing his official duties when he told his supporters to march to the Capitol and "fight like...
Groundhog Day isn't until next month. But if you were watching cable news over the past few days you certainly got a feeling of déjà vu watching...
A few months back I noted a little story in the New York Times about special prosecutor Jack Smith's investigation that didn't get much...
The new year is off to a strong start. With only two weeks before the first presidential caucuses, yet another debate for second place is in the...
If there's a worse time to drop a nuclear-powered campaign gaffe than the week between Christmas and New Year's less than a month before the primaries...
Several years ago, when many Democratic strategists were demanding that the party embrace the tenets of the Christian Right in order to win over the...
It's a real contest but if I had to choose Donald Trump's most fatuous claim it would have to be that until he became president "nobody could say...
Donald Trump first came to America's attention as a political actor back in 2011, when he became the self-appointed leading voice on the right...