I had the good fortune of talking to David Corn this week, who, with Yahoo! News's Michael Isikoff, has written what is sure to be remembered as one of the best books on the 2016 election, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald ...read more

In the transcript of Glenn Simpson's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, the Fusion GPS co-founder references someone whose name has gone largely unmentioned in the Trump-Russia scandal so far, but whose connections to the President are fascinating: Adam Schiff ...read more

If you've been paying attention to the coordinated attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller coming from the pro-Trump media, you will have noticed a dramatic acceleration over the past couple of weeks. This is because Trump is almost certainly planning to fire him, yet again ...read more

As if politics in America couldn't get any crazier, Donald Trump just fired director of the F.B.I James Comey, citing  his inability to "effectively lead the bureau". Reported the NY Times:  President Trump has dismissed the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, on the ...read more

It's been several years since I last covered the insufferable defiance of the "left libertarian" wing of the progressive movement -- specifically, and for lack of a better term, the Glenn "Greenwald left," mostly orbiting the misadventures of Edward Snowden as he remains a ...read more