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Karoline Leavitt’s last day as White House Press Secretary is today. She is leaving to spend more time with her very young children and very old...
Street signs mark Fort Bliss Family Homes as a gated community of military housing at the edge of the sprawling Army base in El Paso, Texas. So, the...
The hottest competition in Washington, D.C. these days is not any political race nor is it the ridiculous “grand prix” that bumped its way across...
The BBC, Great Britain’s state broadcaster, has become that rare thing: a mainstream media organization that has taken a stand against Trump’s...
As bad as you think things are, they’re worse. How do I know? I mean, besides that I am Jewish and this bleak worldview has been inculcated in me...
The founder and CEO of the company contracted to supply ICE agents with shock gloves has said the Hand of God played a role in Donald Trump becoming...
We’ve all been hearing an awful lot about Natalie Harp of late. The perky blonde 35-year-old is forever at our octogenarian president’s side, her...
I enrolled in Harvard University’s course on Modern American Political Campaigns in the fall of 2020. Though I was generally interested in the...
What will SCOTUS do—and will they interrupt their summer vacation to do it? Well, it should only need be a quick break from the beach, or whatever...
At 11:13 am on Friday, a dimmed version of the once hot, hot, hot Luigi Mangione appeared in Manhattan federal court wearing a tan prison outfit and a...
You can learn a lot about a city by its street posters. They appear between polished campaign signs and government notices; an unofficial bulletin...
A 19-year-old sailor with a wife the same age, along with a 7-month-old daughter and a 3-year-old son, is reported to have reached a limit on Aug. 3...
I’ll admit to a sneaking admiration for Karoline Leavitt. Few could have lasted as long as a twentysomething mouthpiece to an old, crotchety, sexist...
We are watching the president ripen and rot before our very eyes. If he were a banana, he’d be in the trash right now—or, at best, on his way into...
By making a planeload of staff and reporters into unwitting decoys as they departed a NATO summit in Turkey on July 8, President Donald Trump...
Blame a windmill—you know Trump wants to. But all it took was a single gust, in all its fury, to expose the 80-year-old president’s gaping,...
Has it really come to this? A scared old man and his Pentagon bully cowering in a catering truck, knowing they could be sending friends and colleagues...
President Trump’s decision to nominate Dennis Kirk to serve as Inspector General of the Department of the Interior is a profound mistake. His...
Doug Burgum, the Secretary of the Interior, is not simply a member of Donald Trump’s Red State, defined by resentment, prejudice, and Fox News....
Every era has its great conundrums that great minds struggle with. Centuries ago, there was serious debate about how many angels could fit on the head...
With another octogenarian president once again spending his time yelling at people to get off his proverbial lawn–which is fair, given that it’s...
The Vultures Are Circling CNN: Wolff The fate of CNN, undoubtedly the world’s most famous name in news, hangs in the balance. Donald Trump, as much...
“I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question. When your family, your...
The closest I’ve ever come to being a lawyer was playing the bowling alley manager for a bowling-alley-owning lawyer on the TV show Ed, so I may not...
Flailing politicians sometimes try to rationalize their way around the polls, believing they have some finer gut understanding. Trump is way beyond...
The White House ballroom. The Triumphal Arch. The relined Reflecting Pool. The new 747. Together, they cost a small fraction of just one of the...
Another D.C. institution in the culture war crosshairs. The Smithsonian has been a target of the Trump administration for over a year now, since an...
Oscar Wilde famously said that “with age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” Whether we get wiser as we age is open to argument, but the...
He’s a b-tchy little queen. Such a b-tchy little queen. The make-up, the cattiness, the whining, and, especially, the resentment of successful...
Former star NFL running back Ahman Green, 49, revealed that he has been living with early-onset Parkinson’s for the past year and a half. The...
For more from Michael Wolff, subscribe to HOWL on Substack and gain access to exclusive daily commentary, analysis, and insider knowledge. I once...
I have covered Donald Trump’s second term since the day he was inaugurated, and each day, my faith in him and his administration has dwindled a...
Three hours after he saluted the arriving coffins of four service members killed in his unpopular war of choice in Iran, President Donald Trump...
This is getting ridiculous. Six weeks ago, the former Senate Majority Leader was wheeled into a hospital. Since then, aside from a single smiling...
What Trump’s Election Denial Speech Is Really About: Wolff President Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech represented the intersection of mental...
There was a time when, if a president delivered a speech that was so packed with lies that it was instantly, and conclusively, contradicted into...
At the approach of President Trump’s prime time address to the nation on Thursday, former senior FBI and intelligence officials told the Daily Beast...
A seemingly frenzied wild boar left four people hospitalized after ravaging through the Japanese city of Toyota, charging workers at a factory before...
The tweeting of birds on a summer morning in Biddeford, Maine was interrupted by sound of Trump’s America: Four gunshots fired by an ICE agent. A...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a bona fide monster, hailed Senator Lindsey Graham as a beacon of “moral clarity.” Donald...
Vice President JD Vance is no longer claiming Haitian immigrants eat cats. But he remains truth-challenged when it comes to a different topic: babies,...
“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...