Few people in the Trump Administration are as loathsome as Stephen Miller, or, as Pod Save America's Jon Lovett calls him, "the C+ Santa Monica fascist." With the exception of Trump himself, he is more responsible than anyone else for crafting the immigration policies that have ...read more
As if the tragedies and national indignities foisted upon the world by Donald Trump haven't been damaging enough, the president and his personal Wormtongue, the dead-eyed Stephen Miller, chose to allow the U.S. Border Patrol to launch tear gas at Central American refugees at the ...read more
In 2014, before he ran for President, Donald Trump said that America had become the laughing stock of the world. It was a theme he repeated over and over throughout his campaign: the rest of the world was laughing at us, and we had lost their respect. At the beginning of 2016, ...read more
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
For your Sunday viewing pleasure, take a minute and watch CNN"s Jake Tapper incinerate hapless Trump advisor Stephen Miller after a non-stop stream of nonsense, then cut his mic mid-sentence: The interview was supposed to be about the claims made by former White House chief ...read more
Benjamin Zuskin couldn't sleep. The year was 1952, and as a former member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow, he knew that Stalin could come for him at any moment... To continue reading this article, please go here. A Banter Membership gets you access to the magazine ...read more
In just the last week, Trump and his band of White House deplorables have: 1. Announced that the civil rights division of the Department of Justice will sue colleges for oppressing white people (No, seriously).2. Told the police to go right ahead and hurt people (read as: Black ...read more
A few weeks ago, I wrote about what it means to be a Jew in Trump's America and I made the following point: If there's one thing I learned from my casual acquaintance with Jewish history, it's this: Sooner or later, they always come for us. So imagine my utter lack of surprise ...read more
"Our opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned..." As you probably know by now, the above words were spoken out loud on ...read more
I keep coming back to this, but it really is astonishing how off-the-mark I was in my pre-inauguration predictions of what we could expect from a Donald Trump presidency. I said it would be a deluge, a daily gangbang of incompetence, scandal, dishonesty, corruption and general ...read more