Few people in the Trump Administration are as loathsome as Stephen Miller, or, as Pod Save America's Jon Lovett calls him, "the C+ Santa Monica fascist." With the exception of Trump himself, he is more responsible than anyone else for crafting the immigration policies that have ...read more
Over the past few years, the Banter has intermittently covered internet troll HA Goodman, a case study in what happens on the political fringes in America. Goodman originally wrote hundreds of articles claiming Hillary Clinton would be indicted. Since then, he has evolved (or ...read more
Maria Butina, the alleged Russian spy who posed as a gun rights activist to court influence among Republicans, will plead guilty today for conspiring to violate Section 951 - the federal statute referred to by the DOJ as "espionage-lite" - during the 2016 election. She has also ...read more
In his latest book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Stephen Greenblatt analyzes the Bard's most power-hungry characters. The book never mentions Donald Trump by name, but it is easy to see the parallels between our president and the characters ...read more
For its 2018 Person of the Year, Time Magazine has selected a group of journalists who have faced prison time, put themselves at great risk, and, in some cases, given their lives for reporting the truth. Billed as "The Guardians and the War on Truth," they include the staff of ...read more
Over the past few weeks, Paris and France at large have been rocked by the gillet jaunes ('yellow vests'), who have taken to the streets. The protestors were ostensibly motivated by French President Emmanuel Macron's fuel tax, that puts disproportionate stress on rural French ...read more
Last night, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced that he has launched an investigation into outgoing Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley, claiming that Hawley hired campaign staffers to run his office while using taxpayer dollars. Hawley ran for Attorney ...read more
Despite the Democrats' massive victory in the 2018 midterms, Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania - the three states that decided the 2016 election - are determined to hold on to power by any means. The GOP's bid to maintain power is so extreme they are willing ...read more
Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office released both a sentencing memo and a heavily redacted addendum regarding former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. He recommended a "sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration," because Flynn cooperated ...read more
Young Turks journalist David Sirota is known for stirring division within the Democratic Party. Throughout 2015 and 2016, he dedicated most of his reporting to attacking Hillary Clinton while showering Bernie Sanders with praise, despite receiving criticism for failing to ...read more
This week, outgoing Congressman Beto O’Rourke said he would not rule out running for president in 2020. While a tantalizing prospect, should Beto run, he may be missing an opportunity to build something else far more powerful in the long run.... To continue reading this article, ...read more
Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky had her office at New York's Columbia Teachers' College vandalized with Nazi swastikas this week. She also found the Jewish slur "Yid" painted on her office door. Midlarsky, who has applied her training as a clinical psychologist to the field of ...read more
According to tax records obtained by The Daily Beast, the NRA's income dropped $55 million, from $367 in 2016 to $312 million in 2017, ending in the red for the second year in a row after spending a substantial amount to elect Donald Trump. The lack of revenue comes from a ...read more
A bombshell report released by The Guardian this morning revealed that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the spring of 2016. This was the third time Manafort had visited the WikiLeaks founder; he'd previously gone ...read more
Yesterday, at the San Ysidro point of entry between Tijuana and the United States, a group of Central American migrants were tear gassed by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP.) Currently, Tijuana has 4700 migrants living in Tijuana’s Benito Juárez Sports Complex, and it is ...read more
When it comes to who is the most revenge-infatuated person in American politics, Donald Trump wins hands down. From sending annual hand tracings to Graydon Carter, who once dubbed him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy Magazine, to ridiculing his political opponents with ...read more
On Election Night, networks called California's 21st congressional district for incumbent Republican David Valadao over Democratic challenger TJ Cox. The district, which encompasses parts of Fresno as well as the Central Valley, the state's largest agricultural region, has not ...read more
Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton's plan to oust assumed incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has always resembled what Bob Cesca calls the "Underpants Gnomes Model." This phrase, which comes from a South Park episode where the boys meet the legendary underpants gnomes, ...read more
It is no surprise that Donald Trump, a man responsible for pitching many failed products, from apartment buildings laundered with Russian money, to Trump: The Board Game, and his now-infamous steak line, is surrounded by hucksters who've sold lousy products. His original choice ...read more
Yesterday Democrat Gil Cisneros finally took the lead over Republican Young Kim to become the next representative from California's 39th district. The district, which encompasses Yorba Linda - home of the Nixon Library - had been held by retiring Republican Ed Royce since 2013 ...read more
Chuck Schumer was comfortably re-elected as Senate Minority Leader yesterday by the Democratic caucus, but a stunning New York Times exposé of Facebook reveals that he attempted to impede investigations into the tech giant. The story, which runs about 5,000 words and carries ...read more
No other Republican has done more damage to the United States than Mitch McConnell. In 2010, before he became Senate Majority Leader, he famously said his party's "top political priority should be to deny President Obama a second term." Once he became Majority Leader, he rammed ...read more
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg ruled in a lawsuit filed by Common Cause Georgia that the Georgia Secretary of State's Office must count provisional ballots in the ongoing governor's election, citing "substantial likelihood" that Republican candidate and former ...read more
Photo: Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images Bernie Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary because black women - the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc - voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton during the early Southern primaries, giving her a delegate lead he could never ...read more