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“America, get your boy. He’s broken. He has lost his mind. He needs to be under a doctor’s care back home.” Looking into the eyes of NATO...
He is now, as I have seen repeated online, Schrodinger’s Turtle. A man both alive and dead because nobody of integrity has yet peered inside the...
It is tempting to think that just because Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt public official in the history of the United States, and his...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. I’m not sure...
Though our country’s 250th birthday is now fast approaching, plenty of Americans aren’t feeling particularly celebratory. But as a historian of...
Do you remember the uproar when President Barack Obama accepted a shiny $50,000 gold coin from the Sultan of Brunei? Critics said he was “selling...
Happy 250th Birthday, America. How is your president, the living symbol of our democracy, our nation’s leader and face unto the world marking the...
On Saturday night, Donald Trump will take over the National Mall to turn the nation’s 250th birthday party into a celebration of himself. “We are...
For the record, I agree with Vice President Vance: If the right-wing media empire that exists today had been in place in the seventies, President...
A 110-foot Ferris wheel is the centerpiece of the Great American State Fair currently come to town in our nation’s capital, which is not a state the...
As we approach July 4th, the President of the United States has just one thing on his mind: Ending free and fair elections in the United States....
Give algae the Nobel Peace Prize! Algae did not pay me to write this column but after I’m finished, I think you’ll agree that algae owes me some...
Kermit the Frog said it best: It’s not easy being green. And now the Reflecting Pool, sickly green with algae, is D.C.’s top tourist attraction, a...
A problem with politics is obviously that it allowed Donald Trump to become president. But it is hard not to conclude, too, that the problem with...
Everybody loves Nate Bargatze. Hell, I love Nate Bargatze. The clean-cut comic has built an empire on his dumb, everyman persona. He’s currently the...
Once, we had wars of choice. Today, we have wars of distraction. Call the catastrophically misguided war in Iran and the blink-and-you-missed-it war...
Donald Trump Is Doing Everything Possible to Destroy Himself Donald Trump’s end is going to happen. We’re seeing it now. Below the surface of his...
Donald Trump deserves exactly as much credit for the “deal” with Iran that he has announced as a spouse abuser does for announcing he will stop...
Only a man like Donald Trump would respond to the widespread criticism of his demolition of the East Wing by thinking to himself (inasmuch as Trump...
The day President Donald Trump becomes an octogenarian, mixed martial arts fighters are slated to stride from the Oval Office to punch, kick, and...
In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s now a big sign over the White House proclaiming its “Monster Energy.” In the images, the...
I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but it now appears that the only Trump administration figure who acted with anything resembling a...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. This is how dumb...
I spent my birthday in Italy for the 1990 World Cup, and I was unable to buy an alcoholic drink. It wasn’t that I was too young to order one, but...
Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady has a new calling—and it’s completely nuts. The 48-year-old debuted his latest business venture on...
Why did four million Albanians take to the streets to protest a corrupt land deal engineered by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Chris Cillizza, subscribe here. News that CBS...
CBS Broadcast Center squats atop an entire city block of midtown Manhattan. It is an aircraft carrier of a building, a labyrinth of weird hallways,...
Donald Trump has trampled over the U.S. Constitution and left it so battered that it can never be repaired. He has shown no respect for the separation...
The world-famous orchestra, the Boston Pops, marked the Bicentennial in 1976 as America’s birthday should be celebrated, with music sure to rouse...
"Actor and comedian Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse after his first day of sentencing hearings in his sexual assault trial in...
It is now clear. It can now be revealed. Donald Trump has prepared a special 250th birthday gift for the United States of America. Trump has boldly...
The singular star of the 1976 bicentennial celebration in the nation’s capital was our founding document which formally declared America’s...
Statuesque, bronzed, and wrinkle-free, Bettina Anderson Trump fits right in with Ivanka, Lara, and Tiffany as the latest member of the Cat Pack™....
Doug McCain, the eldest son of the late Sen. John McCain, has died suddenly at age 66. His cause of death has not been disclosed. “I am deeply...
It seemed inconceivable when Richard Nixon won a historic presidential election victory in 1972 that his own Republican Party would turn on him two...
This week’s election results affirmed that the most corrupt, unpopular, and sleepiest president of the modern age somehow retains an unbreakable...
President Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion “weaponization” slush fund has presented a choice between expiation and damnation to a convicted felon...
President Donald Trump’s latest scam against the American taxpayer is brazen even by his usual, shameless standards. The president’s Department of...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from David Rothkopf, subscribe here. Let us start with...
Grift and Graft, the twin pillars of Trump’s presidency, are the basis of his latest and most daring ploy—awarding himself a $1.776 billion slush...
He admitted earlier this year to selling private photos of a teenage Mary-Kate Olsen to the tabloids. His sister has publicly described him as abusive...
Two words went unspoken by either Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth or Republican congressman Ed Gallrein at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Hebron,...
It is a sick joke on America’s history that Donald Trump chose the amount of $1.776 billion to bilk from taxpayers to pay his MAGA friends. He has...
The golden age our president promised us has arrived. Never in the long history of our country have we seen a period of such innovation, boldness, and...
How many times do we have to be reminded that Donald Trump is a failure? From the doomed businesses to unfulfilled campaign promises, next to nothing...
In the wake of Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court’s opinion over gerrymandering and redistricting of Congressional maps, a bevy of voices,...
Flying back to the U.S. from Beijing, Donald Trump made it clear that he knew his state visit to China was a flop. He was in a lousy mood. In his...
On a recent visit to my doctor’s office, I was asked the routine questions about whether I had any flu symptoms or had traveled out of the country....
According to White House official and understudy for Bond henchman #3, Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump has left “secret instructions” to...