In a bleak warning to America, Andrew Sullivan has penned an important piece looking at the incredibly disturbing behavior of the president over the past couple of weeks -- behavior that looks uncannily like a transition from bumbling buffoon to raging tyrant. Citing Plato's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

When Donald Trump said that Chinese President Xi Jinping's move to repeal the country's term limits law last month was "great" and that "maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day," you should believe him. And you should also be very, very worried.  To continue reading this ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan's latest essay on the state of all things Trump makes for incredibly sobering reading. While most of us are stuck in the daily dirt reporting of the never ending insanity, Sullivan has taken on a new role in the media as a sage-like figure who dips into public ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

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

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In response to the Trump administration's insistence that the recently released jobs numbers are "real" and not "phony" like they apparently were under the Obama administration, Paul Krugman let rip in his latest column, accusing Trump of having "totalitarian instincts" living ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

"We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

Sometimes, a rant needs to happen. Especially when we are far too close to a man leading our country that repeatedly sides with dictators over our own leaders. Keith Olbermann delivers that needed rant in his latest piece and he has some choice words for Trump.  Trump's love of ...read more

• By Jen Froderman
  Nov 9, 2018

It's been treated as a novelty item in today's news cycle, but we still have 12 days to endure this election season -- more than enough time for something harrowing to occur, giving us President-elect Donald Trump. The odds of such a thing are slim, but in a completely ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Donald Trump said something during the debate that some may have dismissed as theatrical overreach: he vowed to jail his opponent if he wins. However, as Keith Olbermann lays bare, this overreach isn't theatrical, it's dictatorial.  Trump keeps showing us, over and over again, ...read more

• By Jen Froderman
  Nov 9, 2018

In response to Donald Trump's overly-amplified declaration that "I alone can fix this," Bernie Sanders tweeted, "Is this guy running for president or dictator?" The answer to Bernie's question is obviously "dictator." Definitely dictator. For the past year, since Trump declared ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018