Wednesday, December 12, was another historic day in the ongoing disintegration of both the Trump presidency and the Trump brand, with Trump the man-baby moving ever closer to impeachment and ignominy. We learned that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and bag-man, Michael Cohen, will ...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
By any reasonable measure, Trump's firing of Jeff Sessions represents a grave threat to democracy and the rule of law. No matter what you think of Sessions, he refused to allow Trump to politicize the Department of Justice, particularly as it related to the Mueller ...read more
Glenn Greenwald's ability to stay focused on one particular narrative over months, years, and potentially decades is nothing short of amazing. Regardless of mountains of evidence disproving whatever pet theory he has decided to adopt, Greenwald is unwavering in his belief that if ...read more
Since the election of Donald Trump, liberals have begun to take once-conservative voices like William Kristol and David Frum seriously, as they have become some of the strongest opponents to the President’s agenda. Simultaneously, they have also heeded the words of the highest ...read more
A few days ago, Jonathan Chait dug into the mystery of why so many on the fringe left like Glenn Greenwald refuse to believe Russia successfully waged cyberwarfare against us: The purest form of this sentiment on the far left is a vein of attacks that are almost indistinguishable ...read more
The narrative the far left likes to promote about Russia is that it is morally superior to America and a victim of its imperialist agenda. Intellectuals like Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, and conspiracy theorists like Caitlin Johnstone routinely make light of Russian crimes ...read more
As someone who intensely dislikes faux progressive hero Glenn Greenwald and his habit of rarely criticizing the right while spending all of his time blasting the parts of the left he deems insufficiently pure, it was refreshing to see him drop an elbow on the massive hypocrisy of ...read more
The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill's online news publication, makes no bones about its contempt for the Democratic Party. Stocked with writers critical of the party's dominant centrist wing, the publication has become a thorn in its side, as its articles emphasize ...read more