Open Thread

Washington is running out of fainting couches, as dozens of media figures have joined conservative snowflakes in expressing shock, shock at Michelle Wolf's routine Saturday night at the White House…

The jokes write themselves. The NRA convention, the ultimate gathering of self-defined good guys with guns, has banned their fetish objects for a speech by VP Mike Pence because the…

Pundits are still buzzing over Trump's disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday's "Fox & Friends," which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne…

The pressure's definitely getting to Cheetohlini. This morning Trump called in to his top advisers, Fox & Friends, and got so unhinged they had to cut him off before he…

An Axios article looking at ballot security in the run-up to the midterms notes that Delaware is one of only 5 U.S. states that lacks any paper trail of voting…

I've seen enough crime movies to know every criminal outfit has to have a guy nicknamed "The Brain." The question is, who would possibly qualify for that sobriquet in Trumpworld?…

I'm of the firm belief that money is not the sole, or even the most important, factor in winning elections. Still, it's telling that Democrats are thumping Republicans in fund-raising…

As much as I enjoyed "Goldfinger" back in the day, I was always skeptical about the denouement, in which Auric Goldfinger, who's almost as fat as Trump, gets sucked out…

Josh Marshall highlights an overlooked passage from Michael Wolff's book, about Trump's longtime lawyer Mark Kasowitz dealing during the campaign with "hundreds" of women who came forward accusing Trump of…

You know those insufferable people on Twitter who drive you crazy by tweeting you links about Bernie or Hillary or whichever candidate you hate? There's a two-to-one chance they're bots.…

A friend of mine maintains that conservatives just don't get irony, which makes the story about right-wing broadcast syndicate Sinclair Broadcasting a bit less surprising: The company forced reporters at…