Over the past few days, Republicans have tied themselves in knots to defend Brett Kavanaugh from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of attempting to rape her when they were in high school.  The GOP has trotted out all kinds of excuses, from the letter signed by 65 of ...read more

Since he became the Republican nominee for governor of Florida last month, Ron DeSantis has made no secret of his racism, from his "monkey it up" crack regarding his opponent, African-American Andrew Gillum, on Fox News, to suggesting that immigrants are child molesters. In ...read more

Well, I guess we’re going at it again, folks. The circular firing squad of the Democratic primary has restarted with an astonishingly dishonest excerpt from interim DNC chair Donna Brazile’s new book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump ...read more

The Banter Long Read: Our story begins with the presidential election of 1876, when Democrat Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote, but did not receive enough electoral votes to assume the presidency... (word count: 1284) To continue reading this MEMBERS ONLY article, please go ...read more

On Friday, Glenn Greenwald's deeply anti-Hillary site, The Intercept, published a "leaked" audio recording of Hillary Clinton speaking in February to campaign donors. The audio is supposed to be damning but The Intercept does an unconvincing job of portraying it that way. ...read more

In a breathtakingly stupid think piece for Politico, National Review editor Rich Lowry laid out his rationale for locking up more young black men in a article provocatively titled #SomeBlackLivesDontMatter. Lowry's argument goes something like this: Black people protest police ...read more

Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential co-frontrunner Scott Walker caused a viral stir this week when comments he made to conservative media star Dana Loesch went viral. Walker was defending the mandatory ultrasound law he signed in 2013 on the basis that ultrasounds are ...read more

The arrests of reporters in Ferguson, Missouri have sparked outrage, and even a presidential rebuke, but also a goopy spew of point-missing ire at the journalists from the likes of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough andPolitico's Dylan Byers. Last night, cops in Ferguson arrested The ...read more

With turmoil in Israel, American bombs falling in Iraq, an immigration crisis at our border, and a Congress that's an executive order away from impeaching, Politico Magazine (ask your parents what a "magazine" is) has decided to devote a 2,700-word cover story to President ...read more

While browsing the interwebz, I came across a story called "Take This Town and Shove It: A White House reporter’s tale of sex, booze and the briefing room” on Politico by Sam Youngman. Being a proud DC native (with a DC flag tattoo that my parents hate to prove it) and someone ...read more

The awesome Elizabeth Warren has penned a must read article in Politico on America's rigged economic system that prevents small businesses from flourishing and allows Big Business to get bigger and avoid paying their fair share of taxes: If a business takes its profits to the ...read more

From the Guardian: Mitt Romney raised $100m in June, confirming Barack Obama's fear expressed Thursday that he is going to be massively outspent in November's White House election. The fundraising figure has not yet been published by the Federal Election Commission, which ...read more