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reading the signs
12/27/2018
Trump, Santa, and the Power of Collective Delusions The effort it takes to maintain a myth can become exhausting.
government shutdown
12/22/2018
Partial Government Shutdown Will Go On Past Christmas The shutdown will now last until at least December 27 after negotiators failed to reach a compromise on Saturday.
government shutdown
12/21/2018
interesting times
12/21/2018
Andrew Sullivan: The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War Keep that in mind when listening to the many defenders of the shadowy and unconstitutional occupation in Syria and the endless slog in Afghanistan.
russia investigation
12/19/2018
voter suppression
12/17/2018
What Russia Learned About Black Voters From America A new report on Russian interference in the 2016 election shows that Putin’s meddlers used tactics not unfamiliar to modern-day Republicans.
the white house
12/15/2018
How John Kelly Failed to Tame the West Wing What Trump’s new chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is walking into.
campaign finance law
12/13/2018
Trump’s 7 Mutually Contradictory Arguments for His Own Innocence The president trots out the old “Schrödinger’s lawyer” defense, “breaking the law is not a crime,” and much, much more.
Michael Cohen Headed to Prison for 3 Years, After Doing Crimes at Trump’s Behest “The irony is that today I get my freedom back,” Cohen said. “Blind loyalty to [Trump] led me to choose a path of darkness over light.”
the national circus
12/12/2018
Will Trump Follow Through on His Incredibly Dumb Threat? If he does trigger a shutdown, he will set his party back even further than he already has.
Trump to Congress: Fund the Wall — Or Not, Either Way Works for Me The great negotiator says Congress must fund his border wall — unless they don’t want to, in which case the military can just build it anyway.
How Screwed Is Trump? Collected Commentary on the Cohen and Manafort Memos The president thinks he’s been cleared, but pundits and experts who actually understand the Cohen and Manafort sentencing memos beg to differ.
Trump 2020 Shaping Up to Be a Campaign to Stay Out of Prison If the presidency shields Donald Trump from a pending indictment, what wouldn’t he do to hold onto it?
Ammon Bundy Quits Militia Movement in Solidarity With Migrant Caravan “Fear is the opposite of faith … The time we find ourselves in now that is closest found in history is Germany in the 1930s.”
interesting times
12/7/2018
Andrew Sullivan: America’s New Religions Political cults are increasingly filling the empty space in our lives left by the decline of organized faiths.
Why Nuclear Weapons Are Shaping Up As a Big 2020 Campaign Issue Last time that happened, George H.W. Bush wasn’t just alive, he was a candidate.
The Stock Market Plunged Yesterday, for Reasons Were investors making too much of Trump’s “Tariff Man” tweet?
White House: We May End Electric Car Subsidies to Punish GM, Protect Free Market The White House says electric car subsidies must end because GM closed some factories – and because the government shouldn’t pick winners and losers.
Will Congress Take Away Trump’s Keys on Trade? Trump is likely to be even more keen to pick trade fights in the next two years. Expect a backlash on Capitol Hill — even in the GOP.
international affairs
12/2/2018
The Migrant Crisis Means No Honeymoon for Mexico’s New President President López Obrador’s first term has begun, and so has the challenge of handling the migrant caravan and a disruptive leader north of the border.
Note to Trump: The Mueller Probe Costs Roughly $0.00 — Not $40 Million Trump accuses Mueller of “wasting more than $40,000,000 (is that possible?).” (No, Mr. President, it is not.)
Trump: The Dreamers Are My Hostages – But the Wall Is Not My Ransom Trump says he won’t negotiate over DACA because he thinks he’ll get a higher ransom once the Supreme Court makes Dreamers vulnerable to deportation.
migrant caravan
11/27/2018
Trump Falsely Claims That U.S. Agents Were Hurt in Border Clashes The president also asserted that many of the migrant families involved were, in fact, kidnappers with stolen children.
migrant caravan
11/26/2018
Trump Ignores Actual Climate Threat, Takes Action Against Illusory Migrant One Asylum seekers will not destroy the U.S. economy or threaten America’s national security. But a new government report says that climate change will.
Democrats Might Be Too Afraid of Power to Aggressively Investigate Trump Moderates in the House are warning their party that it would be politically risky to aggressively investigate Trump. They couldn’t be more wrong.
Unlawful, Alarming John Kelly Order Allows Use of Force by Troops at Border There is no such thing as a “Cabinet order,” and the White House chief of staff has no authority to command anyone except White House employees.
This Thanksgiving, Donald Trump Is Thankful for Saudi Arabia Trump thanks a government that is starving Yemen, and recently murdered a U.S. resident, for a drop in oil prices it had little to do with.
foreign interests
11/15/2018
Trump May Let Turkey Kill U.S. Resident to Help Saudis Who Killed U.S. Resident Erdogan won’t lay off Riyadh for killing Khashoggi — so Trump might send him a legal U.S. immigrant whom the Turkish leader wants to behead.
Democrats Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Run an Anti-Trump Campaign in 2020 Some Democratic operatives appear to have badly mislearned the lessons of 2016.
Don’t Get Donald Trump Started About France “They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along,” Trump said, on the anniversary of the 2015 Paris attacks.
Don’t Let Trump’s Slights Overshadow Lessons From World War I Remembrances If you look past Trump’s usual affronts, the memorials offered messages about nationalism and weakened alliances that are still relevant today.
Republicans Need to Stop Baselessly Accusing Democrats of Stealing Elections Republicans have cause for accusing Broward County of incompetence — but none for accusing “liberals” of trying to steal an election.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns at Trump’s Request His interim replacement, Matthew Whitaker, once mused that a new attorney general could foil the Mueller probe by defunding it.
The Complete History of President Trump’s Feud With Jeff Sessions The pair went from donning MAGA hats together to publicly sniping at each other — culminating in a dizzying post-midterms resignation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns at Trump’s Request His interim replacement, Matthew Whitaker, once mused that a new attorney general could foil the Mueller probe by defunding it.
Why Trump’s Culture War Lost the Suburbs — But Held the Senate The president’s singular strength in rural areas will help Republicans consolidate power over the least majoritarian parts of our government.
Live From the Trump International Hotel in D.C. on Election Night Where Trump’s supporters in D.C. and some members of his administration and his family in Washington are taking in the election results.
U.S. Reimposes Harsh Sanctions on Iran (to Europe’s Chagrin) Here’s how the world is reacting to the Trump administration’s latest attempt to cow Iran by destroying its economy.
Michael Cohen: Trump Once Said ‘Black People Are Too Stupid to Vote for Me’ “Name one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole. Name one city,” Cohen recalled Trump saying after Nelson Mandela’s death.
Trump Eyes Former Fox & Friends Host for U.N. Ambassador The president has reportedly offered Nikki Haley’s old gig to former Fox News anchor, and current State Department spokesperson, Heather Nauert.
Trump’s Racist ‘Willie Horton’ Video Is a Normal GOP Ad in 2018 The president just accused Democrats of trying to flood our country with cop killers. Other Republicans have accused them of worse.
What Jon Stewart Gets Wrong About Trump and the Media The relationship between the Fourth Estate and a president who wants truth to have no relevance in our civic life should resemble a “fight.”
Wage Growth Is Improving. Does President Trump Care? Where’s his tweet bragging about something that matters more to most Americans than what’s happening in the stock market?
No, President Trump Can’t Strike Birthright Citizenship Out of the Constitution The president is trying to stir up questions about the 14th Amendment, though for more than a century the courts have been very clear on its meaning.
pittsburgh synagogue shooting
10/30/2018
Trump Heads for Pittsburgh (Over Local Leaders’ Objections) The Steel City’s mayor asked the president not to visit until after the victims of the synagogue shooting were buried. Trump came anyway.
Trump: Why Didn’t the Media Blame Obama for Dylann Roof Attacking Black People? The president says the media is biased because it associated him with Cesar Sayoc but “didn’t do that with President Obama, with the church.”
migrant caravan
10/29/2018
Trump to Send 5,200 Troops to Border for Preelection Stunt We are sending 5,200 troops (who aren’t allowed to enforce immigration law) to combat 3,500 unarmed asylum-seekers who are still 900 miles away.
migrant caravan
10/29/2018
The GOP’s Caravan Propaganda Is Aiding Nazis for No Good Reason Trump says that Democrats are orchestrating an invasion of the U.S., using migrants as their shock troops. Robert Bowers said the same of Jews.
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