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The all-purpose Trump apology — good for all occasions!
Here’s the latest news from the American mudslide: Samantha Bee has apologized for calling Ivanka the C-word. It just so hap ...
7 years ago
Gee, why isn’t Trump talking about the new report on Puerto Rico’s death toll?
For reasons that should be obvious to anyone who breathes, Donald Trump has thus far failed to utter or tweet a word about the new study, ...
7 years ago
Roseanne gets Barred from decent society, and good riddance
When I heard yesterday that trashy racist Roseanne Barr had been summarily tossed into the trash, I wanted to high-five the world. It’s ...
7 years ago
Ballot power: Ireland teaches us how to act like a progressive democracy
Put your hands together for Ireland! On the issue of abortion, this heavily Catholic nation is now officially more enlightened than America’s Republican party.
7 years ago
Trump: ‘We are respected again.’ Reality: The opposite.
Last Friday morning, before taking refuge in golf and Twitter, Donald Trump predictably soiled the Memorial Day weekend by lying to the '18 graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy
7 years ago
Kellyanne Conway’s hubby refuses to get with the program
You don’t need Netflix or Showtime to track the best reality series in Washington. “The Conways” features a serial liar ...
7 years ago
Trump and the NFL don’t understand that protest is patriotic
I almost feel sorry for the NFL owners. They’ve dutifully bowed to Trump, concocting a new policy that consigns protesting players ...
7 years ago
Did we just pass the tipping point toward autocracy?
Let’s stipulate that Trump is not another Hitler. Nevertheless, there’s something disturbi ...
7 years ago
Goodbye to Richard Goodwin, whose prose sang the promise of America
You’ve probably never heard of Richard Goodwin, who died Sunday at 86. But there once was a time when his unparalleled eloquence le ...
7 years ago
Four reasons why Democrats could lose the congressional midterms
Election day is nearly six months away, and conventional wisdom decrees that Democrats will surf a blue wave and seize the House of Representatives. But I'm not so sure.
7 years ago
Dumb Republican white man of the week
Given the current stupidity epidemic in D.C., it's no easy feat to win notoriety as the dumbest box of rocks. But this week the honor goes to House Republican Mo Brooks.
7 years ago
Happy anniversary to the most crucial probe in American history
Donald Trump, eloquent as always, tweeted today: "Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History." You could almost sm
7 years ago