On Saturday night, just two days after Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced the Trump administration’s intent to host the upcoming G-7 summit at Trump’s resort in Miami, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the government would find another location to host the summit, possibly Camp David. Trump, …
Read More »Who's Who of Witnesses Called to Testify in the Impeachment Inquiry
The trio of committees leading the House’s impeachment inquiry has unleashed a torrent of requests for documents and depositions from a cast of characters in the poorly scripted political thriller in which we are living. Among them are a pair of shady Soviet-born South Florida businessmen, several frustrated career civil …
Read More »President Sharpie
It is understandable that people laugh at this. There is an inherent hilarity in the doctored map alone, its black Sharpie-d bubble emerging from just north of Jacksonville and curving around the Florida panhandle only to ensure that some slice of Alabama would be jeopardized by this newly enhanced path …
Read More »Art of the Sale: Inside the Room Where Women are Pitching Women on Trump 2020
Early on election night 2016, I swiped a hot pink “Women for Trump” poster from the Midtown hotel where the reality TV star was scheduled to accept a magnificent, national-stage humbling. Almost everyone agreed a trouncing was coming, including, reportedly, Kellyanne Conway. The first woman to lead a major-party campaign, …
Read More »The Overstock CEO's Wild Maria Butina Story Raises Serious Questions
Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne came to me months ago with a wild, difficult tale. I told him any story would have to come with a caveat. “There’s not going to be any way to tell this,” I told him, “without explaining to readers you’re a different sort of dude.” …
Read More »Can Joe Biden Sell 'No We Can't'?
The first night of the debate in Detroit turned conventional Democratic political dynamics on their ear. In the normal state of affairs, politicians calling for modest course corrections are given the presumption of virtuousness on the public stage, while candidates calling for transformation are forced to make the difficult case …
Read More »Michelle Obama Comes Out Against Trump's 'Go Back' Remarks: 'It's Our America'
Michelle Obama is the most admired woman in the world. And on Friday afternoon, she posted a tweet criticizing President Donald Trump’s recent racist tweets and remarks telling four progressive women of color representatives, all of whom are American citizens, to “go back” where they came from. “What truly makes …
Read More »The Official Democratic Debates Drinking Game
The first Democratic Party primary season debates will be held this week. Because there are two debates, it will require an unusual set of official Rolling Stone drinking game rules, listed below. We thought 17 candidates was a lot last time. Now it’s 23. Or is it 24? By 2024 …
Read More »Former Rep. Joe Sestak Announces He's Running for President
The Democratic presidential field continues to grow as former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak threw his hat in the ring on Sunday. The 67-year-old Sestak served two terms in the House, is a retired Navy admiral, and lost twice while trying to reach the Senate. In a video on his website …
Read More »Ta-Nehisi Coates Dismantles Mitch McConnell's Remarks on Reparations
“No, I don’t think reparations are a good idea,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, calling slavery “something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible.” The senator from Kentucky went on to cite the Civil Rights Act and President Obama’s election as …
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