In the wake of last week’s damning Congressional testimony by Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer-fixer, it’s a smart time to search for precedent. Picture a White House mired in scandal and ever-widening investigations. The administration digs in and fights back. An executive wages war on the investigators by dismissing …
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Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday was by turns explosive and chilling, as the president’s former fixer detailed crimes he committed to help put Trump into office, and warned the world, in his closing statement, that Trump might not leave the White House without a fight: “I fear that if he loses …
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On Valentine’s Day 2018, a 19-year-old ex-student took an Uber to his old high school; he walked across the campus and into a three-story building, where he killed 17 people and injured 17 more. It was the sixth of 24 shootings in U.S. schools last year, but the incident at …
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Not long after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam immolated what was left of his political career, I got the Reverend Dr. William Barber on the phone. The fiery civil rights leader, known for founding the Moral Mondays movementand for revivingRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, did not focus …
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Until now, the Russian infiltration of the National Rifle Association has looked like a sidecar to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election. The prosecution of Maria Butina, the lifetime NRA member who in December pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges of seeking to act …
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As of January 12th, the United States will be without a fully functioning government for the longest stretch in the nation’s history. The milestone will come a day after 800,000 federal employees did not receive their paychecks —and as hundreds of senior Trump appointees enjoy a bump to theirs — …
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WASHINGTON —Picture the 2020 elections but with a few, shall we say, tweaks to how politics work in this country. Changes like: Anyone can easily register to vote online or on Election Day, which, by the way, is now a federal holiday. Want to cast your ballot early? Go for …
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President Trump announced on Saturday that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will be leaving the administration by the year’s end. The new is not surprising. The president has already jettisoned dozens of top officials, and it had long been rumored that Trump and Kelly’s relationship had soured. Nick …
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There’s no official date that the conservative “War on Christmas” picks back up each year, but in 2018 it was probably November 19th, when President Trump gently laid his palm on a horse’s ass in front of the White House. To the president’s credit, it was no ordinary horse; it …
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In case you hadn’t heard, Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough tied the knot on November 24 — in front of the Constitution at the National Archives, no less. (They really love America.) The co-hosts’ nuptials were officiated by Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). AndSaturday Night Live couldn’t resist …
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