There's no way to know for sure, but it seems like Donald Trump is increasingly disconnected from reality. Specifically, I don't get the sense he fully understands how blindingly real his legal jeopardy is. In fact, around 35 percent of American voters are just as deluded as ...read more
Donald Trump announced this weekend that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (or INF for short) because Russia has "not honored" it. At his rally in Nevada, he offered up a word salad of an explanation, which may please both ...read more
This is part one of a two part piece on the story behind the Magnitsky Act Everyone knows that on June 9th, 2016, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Although Junior ...read more
It's Monday so it must be time for Trump's latest Twitter distraction. Yawn. This week? War with Iran because they said mean things about us or something. That's nice. No one has forgotten Trump is a Russian puppet but "A" for effort? Ever since Trump in knelt before Putin in ...read more
Karl Marx once wrote that history repeats itself, once as tragedy and once as farce. This week, two very different people embodied this maxim as they fooled Republicans through the power of the NRA. The first was Sacha Baron Cohen, whose Showtime series Who is America? premiered ...read more
Liberal billionaire George Soros is a widely despised figure on the right. No doubt this has much to do with his Jewish heritage, but it is his philosophy of an interconnected, cooperative international community that makes the right hate him. A dreaded "Globalist", the right ...read more
Last week, the US House Intelligence Committee released approximately 3,517 Facebook ads purchased by the Russians between 2015-17, meant to influence the 2016 election, all of which are available to download. USA Today conducted a study of the ads and concluded that more than ...read more
