Note: This is the second of a two-part series of articles concerning the Magnitsky Act. To read the first article, go here. The Magnitsky Act, which cut off Russian oligarchs' access to their American holdings as punishment for the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, represents a ...read more
Over the past two years, The Daily Banter has repeatedly scrutinized California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher for his ties to Russia. Warned as early as 2012 that the Kremlin had been cultivating him as an asset, he continued to spout Kremlin talking points and meet with dubious ...read more
Karl Marx once wrote that history repeats itself, once as tragedy and once as farce. This week, two very different people embodied this maxim as they fooled Republicans through the power of the NRA. The first was Sacha Baron Cohen, whose Showtime series Who is America? premiered ...read more
California's jungle primary system, which allows the top two candidates to move to the general election regardless of party, threatened to crash the Blue Wave if too many Democratic congressional candidates split the vote and allowed Republicans to advance. Although the media is ...read more
In my first article of 2018, I wrote that California was the Democrats' best shot for taking control of the House. A lot of Republicans were either retiring, or running in districts that had begun to trend blue thanks to both the state's growing Latinx population and its ...read more
