(Image source: The New York Times) We should probably brace ourselves for an extended Trump shutdown because there's ultimately no reason for the president to end his ongoing temper tantrum. He straight up needs this. Even though his poll numbers are crashing, the longer the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Jan 24, 2019
• Opinion

(Image via AP) In a matter of weeks on the job, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to checkmate Trump over his government shutdown in spectacular fashion. Not only has Pelosi refused to back down from Trump's childish threats over his border wall, she has managed bullied the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 17, 2019
• Opinion

We are exactly where we belong. Not necessarily as individuals, but collectively for sure. The extended partial shutdown of the federal government is the logical conclusion not just to the first (and hopefully only) half of the Trump presidency, but to the past several decades ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Jan 17, 2019

The government shutdown over president Trump's border wall is a crisis manufactured by one person: Donald Trump. Outside of his rabid base, literally no one wants the giant concrete wall he has been promising, including most of the GOP.  Unfortunately for the rest of the nation, ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 8, 2019
• Opinion

In 2019, president Trump appears to be working extremely hard to make the Democrats'  job of opposing him as easy as humanly possible. Facing a career defining stand off with the House, Trump is laying it all on the line in order to get his infamous border wall. And the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 4, 2019
• Opinion

As the government shutdown grinds on, Trump's survival in the White House becomes ever more precarious. Democrats and Republicans are locked in a deadly battle with each side making bold demands and refusing to cede ground. Nancy Pelosi, the new Speaker of the House, has ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 4, 2019
• Opinion

Well, that lasted long. After publishing a scathing Op-Ed about Trump in the Washington Post this week, newly elected Senator Mitt Romney did what Republicans do best: cower when it matters most.  In the midst of a GOP stand off with the Democrats over Trump's Great Wall, Romney ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 2, 2019
• Opinion

When you want to move the goal post in politics, the first thing you do is start to play with language. When Tony Blair and George Bush could not sell their war with Iraq on the basis of the non-existent threat Saddam Hussein posed, they started to change their language. Saddam ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 31, 2018
• Opinion

As the stock market tumbles, the Mueller probe finale looms, and the reality of a Democratic controlled House sets in, Donald Trump is finding himself in an increasingly isolated political position. Having recklessly shut down the federal government over his inability to secure ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 28, 2018
• Opinion

In a truly astonishing series of events this week, the Trump White House appears to be locked in a dangerous free fall that threatens to destabilize not just the country, but the entire planet too.  After his Defense Secretary quit in horror over his decision to abruptly pulled ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 21, 2018

On Sunday, December 16th, Brian Kolfage, a right wing personality that pops up in the news every now and then, started a Gofundme page to raise (insert Dr. Evil voice) One Billion Dollars moohoohahahahaha! Naturally, thousands of white Republican voters suffering from "economic ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 20, 2018
• Opinion