A Coup in Real Time? Historian Says Comey Firing Is Trump’s ‘Open Admission of Collusion With Russia’ Yale historian says Trump has now admitted guilt; former intelligence officer says Flynn was a Russian agent. By Chauncey DeVega, Salon, May 11, 2017 Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr Has the other shoe finally dropped? Is this the beginning of […]

ДО СВИДА́НИЯ FBI Agents Worry White House Will Kneecap Russia Probe The acting FBI director may promise that the investigation into Trump-Russia connections will continue. Many agents aren’t buying it. JANA WINTER, BETSY WOODRUFF, The Daily Beast, 05.12.17 1:00 AM ET On Tuesday night after James Comey got fired, FBI agents tasked with thwarting Russian intelligence operations started drinking. […]

When asked why he fired FBI Director James Comey, the president replied simply, “He wasn’t doing a good job.” He hasn’t told us much more, other than that Comey was “a showboat.” So what would “a good job” have looked like to Donald Trump? Here’s an answer. It was published after the election in the New York […]

How many targets of FBI investigations are able to fire the investigator? Only one. And he did it. What does that tell you? It tells me that he is terrified of the FBI investigation of his relationship to Russia. Terrified? Really? Yes. He has already demonstrated repeatedly that (1) he wants us to believe that […]

Bannon is pulling one over on Trump. There is zero reason to exit the Paris climate accord. Pulling out of Paris is incredibly reckless and would shoot the US in the foot. By David Roberts@drvoxdavid@vox.com  May 7, 2017, 10:10am EDT This bad idea casts a certain silhouette. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The debate over whether to officially […]

This post, from Salon, is dedicated to our youngest readers. CLAIRE MESSUD, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 11:30 PM EDT A letter to my daughter: What I want you to know about freedom, fear and Donald Trump Our hollow president is the voice of a hollow culture. We can and must fight for the better future we […]

NAFTA dilemma: will Trump administration seek broad deal or quick resolution? First posted in The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)  THE CANADIAN PRESS, Published May 4, 2017 – 12:10pm  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will soon be forced to choose between two contrasting goals it has articulated for upgrading NAFTA, a fast-approaching dilemma over which of those objectives it truly […]

  The repeal of Obamacare wasn’t going well. It looked very much like House Republicans would fail again to destroy President Obama’s biggest success, and the current president was not happy. It didn’t occur to him that many people in red states wanted to keep their new health insurance, that it was working for them. […]

Trump has a dangerous disability   President Trump boards Air Force One. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) By George F. Will Opinion writer, The Washington Post, May 3 at 7:36 PM It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not […]

Watch to the end this interview by John Dickerson of CBS News. Trump cannot admit he made a mistake and abruptly ends the interview. It tells us something important about our president: https://www.yahoo.com/tv/watch-trump-abruptly-end-cbs-interview-over-wiretapping-174607189.html