In Heartfelt Monologue, Colbert Thanks Romney for Political Courage
Stephen Colbert on Wednesday added his voice to the wave of praise for Mitt Romney, the sole Republican senator to vote to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial. Romney’s decision, which made him the first senator in US history to vote to remove a president of their own party from office, came as…
Clinton Gave Up On Rural America. Are the Democrats About To Do It Again?
Donald Trump on the campaign trail, 2016.Andrew Harnik/AP Photo President Donald Trump, speaking in Iowa last week, made a bold prediction about his prospects in the Hawkeye State this coming November: “We’re going to win the great state of Iowa, and it’s going to be a historic landslide,” he thundered. Trump may actually turn out…
“A Fucking Disaster That Is Designed to Fail”: How Trump Wrecked America’s Immigration Courts
SAN DIEGO IMMIGRATION COURT, COURTROOM #2;PRESIDING: JUDGE LEE O’CONNOR Lee O’Connor has been in his courtroom for all of two minutes before a look of annoyance washes over his face. Eleven children and six adults—all of them from Central America, all of them in court for the first time—sit on the wooden benches before him.…
Democrats Prove No One Has to Hack an Election to Create Chaos
The phone app used for the Iowa caucuses.TNS/via Zuma The traveling road show has moved on from Iowa, and the campaigns and most of the media circus that go with them have set up shop in New Hampshire. Still, the full results of the Iowa caucuses are not yet known. Numbers have been posted in…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has a Message For Democrats: Vote For the Democratic Nominee “No Matter Who It Is”
JStone/Shutterstock I missed this on Sunday, but it’s something to keep in mind as the primary contests pick up: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday issued a warning to the Democratic Party to “rally behind” the party’s eventual presidential nominee or risk damaging their chances to defeat President Trump. Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in…
Donald Trump is the kindest, warmest, bravest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life
United Artists I guess it’s official: Donald Trump really can shoot someone and not lose any voters. In fact, they’ll all line up to insist that he never shot anyone in the first place. The GOP is now the Manchurian Party and Winston Smith is their mascot.