It’s time to ask every Republican this question about Trump and Mueller By Greg Sargent, The Washington Post, December 4, 2017   In coming days and weeks, we should all do whatever we can to ensure that every Republican member of Congress, in town hall meetings, via social media and during scrums with reporters, is asked the […]

Is It Too Late for Robert Mueller to Save Us? It might not be enough for the special counsel to hand us a smoking gun and an indictment. By Dahlia Lithwick, first posted on Slate. Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, Robert Mueller: Does any of it all matter?Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images, […]

Republicans’ Tax Lies Show the Rot Spreads Wide and Runs Deep Paul Krugman, The New York Times, NOV. 30, 2017 John McCain’s past lectures on the need for “regular order” in the Senate aren’t stopping him from backing a tax bill that’s being rushed to a vote. CreditZach Gibson for The New York Times On Thursday […]

Don’t just complain that Trump is dumb. Do something about it. Is it time to impeach, or activate the 25th Amendment? By Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post, November 21 We’ve seen this movie before. A top administration official in a fit of pique insults the president, revealing his contempt for the mental and temperamental fitness of […]

The press isn’t free–but that’s okay. Republicans are ready to buy it.  By Mark Sumner, Daily Kos, Monday Nov 27, 2017 · 10:59 AM EST If what’s in the press gets uncomfortable, there is an option. Buy the presses. Meredith Corp., the Iowa-based media company, will purchase Time Inc. for $18.50 per share in an all-cash […]

CNN stars Blitzer, Cooper, Amanpour and others fire back at Trump in day of rage The president’s desperate need to silence all but the most fawning adoration of him from Fox news has provoked a just response from CNN, as reported in today’s Washington Post.      Donald Trump’s disdain for the First Amendment and daily attacks on […]

Will These Senators Live Up to Their Own Principles? David Leonhardt, The New York  Times, NOV. 26, 2017 From left: Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John McCain of Arizona.CreditGabriella Demczuk (center) and Al Drago/The New York Times A small number of Republicans — fewer than 10 — will probably determine the […]

One Year Later: The Political Cancer Metastasizes America was never what it had purported to be. Marine One carrying first lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump departs from the South Lawn, Nov. 3, 2017. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) BY NEAL GABLER, BillMoyers.com, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 Exactly one day short of […]

100 years later, Bolshevism is back. And we should be worried. Communist Party supporters with red flags and a flag with a portrait of Vladimir Lenin walk during a demonstration marking the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Moscow’s Red Square on Nov. 5. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP) By Anne Applebaum, Columnist, The Washington Post, November […]

General Mattis, Stand Up to Trump or He’ll Drag You Down Defense Secretary James Mattis at the Pentagon in August. CreditAlex Brandon/Associated Press Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, OCT. 24, 2017 And then there was one. In March I wrote a column in the form of a memo to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, […]