While everything about the Trump Crisis is deeply abnormal and frustratingly opaque, we can often rest assured knowing that, no matter what, Trump always makes things worse for Trump. The closest thing to normalcy in this ongoing sack-full-of-monkeys is the predictability of ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 28, 2018

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

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 6, 2018

If there's one thing we've learned from the shocking double conviction of Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, it's that the powerful aren't always exempt from the law. Sometimes, systems work. Sometimes, justice work and those who abuse the law and their positions of power are held ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

It's hard to remember that before he became a full-time resident of the Upside-Down, Rudy Giuliani was regarded as "the hottest political property in the country". For his work as Mayor of New York City following the events of September 11th, Giuliani earned the respect of the ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

This is part one of a two part piece on the story behind the Magnitsky Act Everyone knows that on June 9th, 2016, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Although Junior ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018