Imagine a bull – or a bull’s handlers – wanting a matador to wave a red muleta in front of the charging beast. That’s one way to look at Monday night’s leak of the questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly wants to ask President Trump as part of the growing …
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Despite calling for bipartisanship and national unity during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday (that is after almost an hour of self-congratulating), Trump still brought up his most divisive, discriminatory policy yet: His “four pillars” for immigration reform. Along with ending both the family reunification and lottery …
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It’s a day of the week that ends in y, so that means that President Trump must be upset about the media again. This week he’s sounding a familiar theme: That he’s going to do something about libel laws. And, like every time he’s made these comments before, he’s showing …
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Last October, just about a week after the release of the infamous Access Hollywood “pussy” tape, Donald Trump gave a surprising speech in Columbus, Ohio. While the entire Republican Party wasrunning sideways away from his cratering campaign, Trump was scrambling to find a way back in the race. One of …
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On Tuesday, just after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, House Republicans aren’t spending the day debating gun legislation to try to save American lives. They aren’t scrambling for better solutions to Puerto Rico’s ongoing humanitarian crisis, either. Instead, these “pro-life” lawmakers are voting to ban abortion after …
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In this golden age of journalistic low points, the decision by 60 Minutes togive a soapbox to the garbage bag full of old taco meat that is Steve Bannon might be the lowest yet. CBS gives airtime to people like Bannon in the hopes of boosting the flagging ratings afflicting …
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Here is an unpopular observation about Donald Trump‘s latest assault on immigrants: It might work, politically. Delivering the odious message through his feckless, oft-humiliated Justice Department subordinate, Jeff Sessions, Trump this week announced that the Department of Homeland Security would stop processing applications under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals …
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