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
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
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
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
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
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
My younger daughter turned 20 last month, and I realized it is too late for me. As the United States of America is rapidly and distinctly being remade before our eyes in the image of President Donald J. Trump, it is not enough simply to shed our alliances, instigate trade wars, ...read more
My personal rule for evaluating Donald Trump's presidency continues to be: Trump always makes things worse for Trump. No matter which way the president zigs or zags, every decision somehow worsens Trump's peril, be it legal or political or miscellaneous. It's kind of a miracle ...read more
