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I linked yesterday to a column by Yanis Varoufakis, the leftist organizer who briefly served as finance minister in Greece before resigning in protest. Here's a longer interview that spells…

The video Trump showed to Kim to kick off their meeting is a hacked together collection of corporate stock video clips accompanied by a cheesy voice over intended to play…

More evidence that Trump is a giant toddler: For years, his habit after "reading" documents is to tear them up and throw them away (yeah, that's not an incriminating habit…

I'll cut to the chase: Anything Trump says about why he sabotaged the G7 meeting is bullshit meant to cover up the real reason: He wouldn't cross Putin with the…

Quinnipiac ran a poll asking people if NFL players have the right to protest on the playing field. The top-line story is that 58% of Americans say they do. But…

David Corn of Mother Jones makes an important point: The media is missing the story in how it reports the Trump-Russia scandal. Much of the media framing of the Russia…

It's been a bad week for suicides. First fashion designer Kate Spade, now celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain -- why is it that people with a lot to contribute check out,…

Except for the action-hungry sports bettors who flocked to Delaware, yesterday's big stories came from the flurry of primaries in eight states. The generally good news for Democrats wasn't all…

It's no secret that blustery, overcompensating macho types like Donald Trump love football. Trump himself, you'll recall, tried to buy an NFL team in the 1980s and failed. He then…

Today's the day Delaware casinos start losing money by accepting single-game sports bets, according to crybaby Dover Downs CEO Denis McGlynn. "People need to manage their expectations on this," McGynn…