The government shutdown over president Trump's border wall is a crisis manufactured by one person: Donald Trump. Outside of his rabid base, literally no one wants the giant concrete wall he has been promising, including most of the GOP. Unfortunately for the rest of the nation, ...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
The sad thing about all of this is that Joy Reid could have made this all go away. Had she admitted immediately her bad judgment over old, mildly incendiary blog posts, she could have moved on and continued largely interrupted with her career. Instead, the widely respected ...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