I was chatting with a friend the other day about the surreal aspects of the Trump era. We began to muse whether the planet had passed through some kind of a cosmic cloud, a sort of political Mutara Nebula,...
CNN just broke the news that a federal judge has ruled in favor of AT&T over Trump’s Justice Department regarding AT&T’s proposed merger with Time-Warner. In a 30 minute reading of his ruling the judge decided that the government...
You may remember a fleeting moment when Donald Trump asked for unity as more mailed bombs were being discovered. Cherish the memory, because a day later he was back to his usual, blaming everybody for everything except himself, and...
They say a conservative is a liberal who got mugged. Columnist Bret Stephens does conservative pieces for the editorial page of the New York Times, and he may be in fact a liberal who woke up and smelled the...
This is very grim. I hope that this story gets a lot of media attention, because this is a gigantic step into the darkness of Trump-generated conspiracy theory and right wing nuttiness and away from credible independent journalism. Trump...
My colleague Ursalafaw just wrote an essential article on the fact that the G7 was an absolute disaster. This could have been predicted beforehand for two reasons. One, Trump was whining about having to go at all, and two,...
Fox News host, Brit Hume, was rebuked on Twitter yesterday after sharing a tweet linking to a post on conservative political bloc, Power Line, entitled, "Why do Democrats Hate America?"
Hume drew sharp backlash on social media and responded with,...
A large part of one's progressive bona fides is the belief no respect can be given even for conservatives who have been "never Trumpers" right from the start. Their previous views and writing over the last three decades made...
Isn’t it interesting that Donald Trump, so famous for the return punch, has neglected to counter punch the biggest nemesis on his radar right now, namely Michael Avenatti? Where is the oppositional digging? Where is the push back? “No...
Art of the Deal ghostwriter Tony Schwartz had an altogether obvious and devastating explanation for Trump's attacks on our allies. Trump is mentally ill, and such behavior has been his typical mode of operation for as long as the...
