Who’s the Fakest President of All?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal complained that liberals are always stereotyping Republican presidents as dimwitted. Maybe so. But I’d argue that this is nothing compared to the relentless stereotyping of Democrats as fake and poll-driven. This started with Jimmy Carter,…
Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Shortly before 5 a.m. on a recent November night, a garbage truck with a New York Yankees decal on the side sped through a red light on an empty street in the Bronx. The two workers aboard…
Here Is My Full-Scale Crisis Communications Plan for Donald Trump
Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. LOL: The White House is struggling to contain the national discussion about President Trump’s mental acuity and fitness for the job, which has overshadowed the administration’s agenda for the past week….Trump privately resents the now-regular chatter on cable television news shows…
Trump Delivers a Hollow, Self-Congratulatory Speech to Farmers in Nashville
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is big with the farmers. How big? Just ask him. “Oh, are you happy you voted for me,” the president cooed during his speech at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 99th annual convention in Nashville on Monday. “Oh, you are so lucky I…
America Needs a Troglodyte/Eat-the-Rich Party
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Atrios today: I’m not sure of the precise timing, but I figure sometime soon..either before the 2018 midterms or soon after… the regular drumbeat for a “populist” party whose appeal is limited to Tom Friedman and Matthew Dowd and maybe Chuck Lane will begin. A…
Investors Are Getting a Little Too Happy For My Taste
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t want to turn into a total Cassandra about the economy, but the Wall Street Journal isn’t providing me any comfort: December 13: Everyone is giddy. “Forecasters are increasingly optimistic the U.S. economic expansion could continue beyond the 2020 presidential election….Most of the private-sector…