The New York Times got Trump's dander up yesterday with the story that White House counsel Don McGahn has spent something like 30 hours in interviews cooperating with to the…
Michael Gerson, the Bush speechwriter turned conservative WaPo columnist, writes a "no shit, Sherlock" column for the ages: Our republic will survive Trump, he intones, but it will never be…
Josh Marshall addresses the only important question in American politics: The greatest conceit in public life today is the notion that we don’t already know President Trump is guilty. ...…
The GOP is a dumpster, and Michael Tomasky raises the lid to find the source of the stink: Republicans don't just fear Trump's base, they approve of Trump's destruction of…
I really did try to ignore the Omarosa publicity tour, but give her credit -- she learned a few things from playing the foil on Trump's reality shows. Her slow…
Beyond its usual plagues of alligators, invasive snakes, sinkholes and crazy residents, Florida is in even worse shape than usual these days. Popular tourist beaches in places like Sanibel are…
Did the Unite the Right organizers really need to bother with a permit for their Sunday march in Washington? It attracted about 40 people, perhaps the biggest conservative crowd since…
There's little to learn from the weekend's flood of Charlottesville anniversary stories, except for this one, which has gotten almost no coverage: Rep. Tom Garrett, the Republican who represents Charlottesville…
Two months ago, the Democratic National Committee announced it would reject donations from the fossil-fuel industry. This uncharacteristically populist move lasted all of two months before the mainstream organization reversed…
When Jason330 wrote the other day that Ken Simpler must be a racist simply because he's a Republican, I probably wasn't the only reader who winced. But Jason isn't the…
If there's one thing centrists love to tell us, it's that America isn't ready for "radical" progressive ideas like Medicare for All. Somebody forgot to send that memo to Fox…
Kudos to Pro Publica, where investigative journalists used FOIA laws to find emails showing that the Veterans Administration is in effect being run by three rich guys who belong to…
Many liberals are too accustomed to the malfeasance of the Democratic Party to appreciate that midterm voters don't care whether Democrats are neo-liberals or progressives. Viewed in horse-race terms, all…