This weekend, White House Senior Policy Advisor Stephen Miller was forced out of a CNN studio after Jake Tapper cut him off in an interview for "[wasting] enough of my viewers' time." Miller spent the interview praising Donald Trump and bashing the media, which anyone who's read ...read more

Whenever Donald Trump says something about the functioning of our government, it is invariably wrong. Pundits have suggested two ways to look at that. One, it could be that he is "working the room," spinning each story as he presents it to his fans so that he appears in the most ...read more

Someone needs to send Jeff Sessions a copy of George Clooney's opening monologue from the wonderful Alexander Payne film, The Descendants.  My friends on the mainland think just because I live in Hawaii, I live in paradise. Like a permanent vacation. We're all just out here ...read more

The Hill reports that Donald Trump has essentially lost his mind: President Donald Trump on Wednesday went directly after the appellate court judges mulling whether to revive his controversial order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United ...read more

Amid the flurry of executive orders banning Muslims, attacking Obamacare, dismantling Dodd-Frank and sucking up to Russia, Donald Trump (under the control of white nationalist Steve Bannon) is quietly preparing to take the gaze of the federal government off of right wing ...read more

It might be comforting to believe that Trump accidentally stumbled into a constitutional crisis his first week in office, but it's far more likely that this is a test. And if we as a country fail it, our system of checks and balances takes one enormous step closer to collapsing. ...read more