Brennan’s explosive testimony just made it harder for the GOP to protect Trump By Sarah Posner, The Washington Post,  May 23 at 3:41 PM In his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday morning, former CIA director John Brennan bluntly told lawmakers that during the 2016 election, he reviewed intelligence that showed “contacts and interactions” between Russian actors […]

The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’ Tenants in more than a dozen Baltimore-area rental complexes complain about a property owner who they say leaves their homes in disrepair, humiliates late-paying renters and often sues them when they try to move out. Few of them know that their landlord is the president’s son-in-law. By Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, May 23, […]

Trump said what?!? By Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post, May 22 at 12:35 PM  If only it were a “Saturday Night Live” sketch. The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump says he never “mentioned the word or the name Israel” during a recent conversation with top Russian diplomats. Speaking alongside Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump was referencing revelations […]

The idea that we must not compare Trump to Hitler or our current turmoil to 1930s Germany is simply wrong. We must reject it—without losing respect for the horror of the Holocaust. If we do not learn from this history, the human failings that cause democracies to collapse will overtake our own. There is a […]

Donald Trump has committed the exact offense that forced Richard Nixon to resign Updated by Dylan Matthews@dylanmattdylan@vox.com  May 16, 2017, 6:20pm EDT First posted on Vox Javier Zarracina / Vox We don’t actually know if Richard Nixon ordered the break-in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. That, to me, […]

The Terrible Cost of Trump’s Disclosures The consequences of the president’s reported divulgence of top-secret codeword information to the Russians are only beginning. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters By Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, May 15, 2017 If The Washington Post is right, President Trump divulged highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador at a […]

  So it’s time to talk about impeachment. When he fired the FBI director James Comey, President Trump came perilously close to an impeachable offense, according to Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet. Why was it not impeachable? How does the process work, and what would it take to impeach him? In 1787 Benjamin Franklin, during […]

© Russian Embassy He’s such a fool. Here he is, our president, shaking hands with the Russian ambassador before a Russian photographer in the oval office with no American reporter or photographer in the room. (Note the copyright. Was there was a security sweep afterward? We don’t know.) This on the day after he fired the […]

Preet Bharara: Are there still public servants who will say no to the president? Then-FBI Director James B. Comey testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3. (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press) By Preet Bharara May 14 at 7:38 PM Preet Bharara, a scholar in residence at New York University Law School, was U.S. attorney for the Southern […]

From The Daily Beast The Week that Could Make—Or Break—America I truly do believe that good will prevail, but this week proved what many of us had long predicted and feared—that Trump is a threat to the Constitution.  Saul Loeb MICHAEL TOMASKY, The Daily Beast, 05.12.17 10:35 PM ET Remember the week of May 7. Remember that this […]