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Michael Ian BlackThe Atlantic |
This one goes out to all my Trump homies. To the MAGA voter, the Trump supporter, the fascist-curious, the Red Stater, the Fox News viewer, the boat...
Trump and his pet Elon (or is it Elon and his pet Trump?) have made their way to Washington DC this morning for a series of scowly meetings with the...
We’re almost there, folks. The presidential election is nearly upon us, and not a second too soon. We are a people on edge because, while the...
I come today to praise Donald Trump, not bury him. With less than a month to go before Election Day, and with an oversized mug of tea at my side, I...
Who the hell debated Tim Walz last night? I understand he was introduced as “Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance,” and I saw, on the stage, the...
Well, we’ve reached another electoral milestone. After two years of campaigning, fewer than 50 days now remain until Americans go to the voting...
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats.” With that absurd and racist lie, Donald Trump lost Tuesday night’s presidential debate....
My wife, Martha, received a breast cancer diagnosis in 2020. I haven’t publicly discussed her cancer before, and I’m not going to do so now,...
Now that the political parties have held their conventions, the next big date on the election calendar is Sept. 10, the only scheduled debate between...
Honey, I can’t wait for you to come back to Chicago because we’re having a great time here!”—Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff Yeah, Kamala...
Last January, I got into a fight with Andrew Dice Clay at a stand-up comedy club in Naples, Florida. The details of the altercation are unimportant...
Have you ever gone ice fishing in Minnesota? I have, and it sucks. Head out to one of the state’s 10,000 or so lakes during the dead of winter and...
Having children is good. Children are the animating force of society. Whitney Houston sang all about it. Without children, we don’t have a species....
Well, that didn’t last long. Our former president nearly lost his life when a bullet shard of glass grazed his ear. Which isn’t to minimize the...
After the horrific assassination attempt against him—and the murder of former fire chief Corey Comperatore—at his rally last Saturday, Donald...
Big news out of the gold-plated rococo tower of bullshit known as Trumpworld: Donald Trump is announcing his VP selection on Monday! Yes, these are...
Last week, I made the single worst prediction of my short career as a political commentator, declaring in my weekly Daily Beast column that “My mind...
Let’s get one thing straight. It’s not a debate. It’s a television show featuring two old dudes bragging about themselves and putting down the...
There’s a phrase people sometimes use when they want to insult somebody—say, for example, me—who spends too much time thinking about and...
I’m begging you—stop with the Alito nonsense. If you’re at all plugged-in to politics, you’ve no doubt heard at least snippets of the...
As the first criminal trial of a former president concludes, the first criminal trial of a sitting president’s son is just getting underway. Amateur...
I had to swallow a little vomit-bubble yesterday morning when I read the following headline from The New York Times : “Eyeing Trump but on the...
Now that the first Donald Trump criminal trial is reaching its end, I find myself wondering what its conclusion will mean for the upcoming...
Forgive my Scrantonese, but where the fuck is Joe Biden? As Donald Trump’s leathery mug fills the cable news networks day after day during his...
Now that Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that the World’s #1 Dad, Donald Trump, is permitted to skip a day of his criminal trial to attend his youngest...
Dear (former, best ever) President Donald Trump, We’ve had our disagreements over the years, some of them pretty bigly. But if there’s one...
As the first criminal trial against a former President of the United States gets underway, the biggest question facing both sides is this: How do you...
Kennedy got it wrong. The real Kennedy, not the nepo baby crackpot currently rasping around trying to get Trump elected. I’m talking about his...
My wife and I are on Day 3 of a weeklong cruise, and the calm waters have put me in a meditative mind. Out at sea, at the slightest remove from...
Welp, they’re debatin’ babies up at the Supreme Court again. On Tuesday, SCOTUS heard oral arguments regarding the “morning after pill,”...
It’s hard out here for a pimp. This week, representatives for sneaker salesman Donald Trump told a New York court that the fake university founder...
The mass deportations have begun! (Not yet at the border, but closer to D.C.) After installing prominent karaoke singer Lara Trump as co-chair of the...
Felon-in-waiting Donald J. Trump, for all intents and purposes secured the Republican presidential nomination this Super Tuesday. As such, it’s time...
We received some critical information regarding the 2024 presidential race this week: Joe Biden fuuuucks. In a widely disseminated (pun intended)...
We’ve got to do something about these sexy, sexy libraries. Instead of public spaces that house books and other collections that are free of charge...
My son turns 23 next week. He was born seven months before 9/11, which means his life has traced some of the most chaotic years of American history....
Former Trump senior presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway wrote a column in The New York Times this week, entitled, “Who Should be Trump’s No....
As a new Daily Beast contributor, I think it’s important to be as honest with you guys up front as I possibly can be, and so I begin my first column...
There’s at least a small chance David Grusch ends up being one of the most consequential figures in history. On June 5, the former intelligence...