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Inside the lying mind of America’s crazy uncle
Americans have tolerated presidential untruths since the dawn of the republic. We’ve weathered them and moved on. So far. Th ...
8 years ago
Adam Schiff frames the stakes: ‘authoritarianism versus democracy’
In case you haven’t noticed, the Democrats have been starved for leaders. But they got one this week, at the House Intelligence hea ...
8 years ago
It’s official: Trump’s Putin pals conspired to ‘hurt her, help him’
Now we know it, for real. It is now objective fact that the Trump regime is the target of a criminal espionage investigation. It is now o ...
8 years ago
Some pithy parting words from Jimmy Breslin
Forgive me if I refrain today from writing about our craven King Leer. My reason is purely personal. It concerns Jimmy Breslin. Yo ...
8 years ago
Trump’s wiretap tapdance: He heard some things
Having lashed himself to a baldfaced lie, Donald Trump can’t even hide inside the Fox News cocoon. Nobody, except for maybe ...
8 years ago
Trump loses again: ‘Unrebutted evidence of religious animus’
How easy it was to hit the campaign trail and wow the naifs with lines like this: “We’re gonna win so much, you’re gonn ...
8 years ago
Republicans to Trump: Put up or shut up
You may not have noticed — who can possibly keep track of everything? — that the Trump regime just blew a big deadline. The Re ...
8 years ago
TrumpCare is the new Trump University
Donald Trump, January 15, 2017: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody.” The nonpartisa ...
8 years ago
Paul Ryan makes the rich richer: ‘I’m not that concerned about it’
Every once in a while, a politician will ditch the double talk and bare his true self. Paul Ryan did it the other night, declaring with f ...
8 years ago
The anti-science evisceration of the EPA
Steve Martin used to play a character called Theodoric of York, a medieval physician who insisted on trying to cure sick people by hangin ...
8 years ago
A big little lie from Fox-Trump media
Sometimes it’s possible to tell a big story in few words — as evidenced by an episode earlier this week that nicely illustrates t ...
8 years ago
GOP health care, from the gang that has no clue how to govern
House Republicans have finally unveiled their vision for health care — eight years in the making! the suspense was killing us! — and ...
8 years ago