In a normal country, we wouldn’t need a second round of expanded unemployment insurance benefits. The back-of-the-envelope math lawmakers did in late March would have been sufficient to see us through a temporary lockdown — the time it took to scale up testing, contact tracing, and the emergency production of …
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The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 affirming that the Manhattan district attorney can subpoena the president’s tax records but also ruled 7-2 to prevent Democrats in Congress from seeing them now, sending the cases back to be argued in the lower courts. This essentially guarantees the public will not see the …
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I didn’t enjoy my weekend with John Bolton. His new book, The Room Where It Happened, is blunt, partisan, thorough, and unpleasant — much like the man. Bolton’s righteous arrogance oozes in nearly ever sentence. His contempt for anyone who doesn’t share his reactionary world view is profound and on …
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As Samantha Bee and other late-night hosts have pointed out, President Trump’s New York jet flyover demonstration in celebration of essential workers this week may not have been the best way to support them. On her at-home edition of Full Frontal —filmed in front of a greenscreened forest background and …
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“We told them very clearly that the president was not going to sign the bill if [funding for the Postal Service] was in it,” an official from President Trump’s administration told the Washington Post when discussing the $2 trillion Coronavirus Relief Aid that passed weeks ago. Trump made it clear …
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Lev Parnas, an indicted crony of personal Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, has given House impeachment investigators a new cache of documents, including a handwritten note from the Ritz-Carlton in Vienna, Austria, that appears to document the plot to get Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Parnas, a naturalized American citizen born …
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Just as the nation zeroes in on the House impeachment inquiry brought on by Trump’s solicitation of foreign interference in the 2020 election, one of the last shoes is dropping over foreign interference in the election of 2016. Roger Stone — an informal Trump adviser and infamous longtime GOP henchman …
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ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a U.S. raid in northwestern Syria, President Donald Trump announced during a Sunday morning nationally-televised address. “Last night, the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice,” Trump said. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.” According to the president, al-Baghdadi was …
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Robert De Niro couldn’t care less if Fox News doesn’t like his outspoken critiques of President Donald Trump. Responding to a prompt from CNN’s Brian Stelter on Reliable SourcesSunday morning—”When you say that, folks on Fox come after you. I remember the Tonys when you got up there and cursed”—De …
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After months of obstruction that led Democrats to brand him “Moscow Mitch,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has reversed course and is now backing $250 million in new federal funding for election security measures to defend against hostile foreign actors like Russia. On the Senate floor Thursday, McConnell introduced …
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