Donald Trump Is Looking Pretty Good in 2020
Back in the early days of the Trump presidency, I figured his best strategy was to just pass some ordinary compromise legislation and then hail it as the greatest accomplishment in all of human history. His fans would believe him and that would be enough. But then he held out and I started wondering if…
Saturday Night Live Takes America Home for the Holidays and It’s Painfully Funny
Saturday Night Live’s opening sketch this week once again managed to sum up the desperately divided state of American politics, in six painfully accurate minutes. It takes place around three dinner tables: There’s an ultraliberal family in San Francisco, California, praying to “gender-neutral spirits,” a conservative family in Charleston, South Carolina, praying to “original American…
The Growing List of Damning Newspaper Editorials Demanding Trump’s Impeachment
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP On Saturday, the New York Times Editorial Board came to a concise conclusion: “Impeach.” It joined a growing chorus of leading newspapers calling for the president’s impeachment, with tones ranging from restrained (the Los Angeles Times calls itself a “a reluctant convert”) to resolute (USA Today: “The current board has made no…
Here’s a Fox News Poll Trump Definitely Won’t Be Tweeting About Today
Abaca/ZUMA Press Update, 4 p.m. EST: So, uh, he tweeted. I’m no pollster, and definitely no impeachment historian. So I’ll leave the parsing of these numbers—on the Sunday before President Donald Trump is likely to be impeached, this week—to the experts. But like everyone, I’ve watched Trump’s symbiotic relationship with Fox News sour lately. Trump was…
The UN Climate Negotiations Are Officially a Disaster and the US Helped Screw It Up
A youth protest outside COP25 in Madrid.AP/Manu Fernandez, Zuma Each year, the United Nations holds a conference on climate change to try to nudge the biggest polluters toward containing warming under well below 2 degrees Celsius. Now, that goal seems more fantastical than ever; the world is on track for the absolute worst-case, business-as-usual scenario…
Ivanka Trump Never Ever Gets Special Treatment. Nope, Never.
Chris Kleponis/CNP, Zuma Ivanka Trump is in the Middle East, for some reason, at the diplomatic Doha Forum in Qatar. BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief Ben Smith caught something unusual about her interview. Usually it’s a forum where leaders answer tough questions from journalists. BuzzFeed reported that the Turkish foreign minister faced questions about war crime allegations, the…