Maria Butina, the alleged Russian spy who posed as a gun rights activist to court influence among Republicans, will plead guilty today for conspiring to violate Section 951 - the federal statute referred to by the DOJ as "espionage-lite" - during the 2016 election. She has also ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 13, 2018

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

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who was seen leaving Trump's golden tower recently, may be being considered for Secretary of Homeland Security. The well-known right-wing talking head has long been an opponent of criminal justice reform. He has held that the criminal ...read more

• By Jen Froderman
  Nov 9, 2018

Fox News's amazing dedication to the distortion of objective reality is something historians will study for hundreds, if not thousands of years to come. That a multi million dollar, major news organization broadcasts verifiable nonsense to hundreds of millions of people every ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018