The Deeper Reason That Trump Is Raging Against Brazil Right Now

The Deeper Reason That Trump Is Raging Against Brazil Right Now

For all the ways that MAGA has departed from established political norms, there is a throwback quality to President Trump’s extraordinarily hostile trade war. His ham-fisted efforts to shore up global U.S. hegemony in the face of growing competition, and Republican...
The Democrats Finally Have a Plan to Attack Trump. Sort Of.

The Democrats Finally Have a Plan to Attack Trump. Sort Of.

The first six months of Donald Trump’s second presidency have been a master class in what he truly excels at: wanton misrule. With an absence of adult minders and a determination to run roughshod over all of the democratic guardrails that have historically only been...
Federal Judge Tells LAPD to Stop Shooting at Journalists

Federal Judge Tells LAPD to Stop Shooting at Journalists

A federal judge just had to remind police that they shouldn’t shoot at journalists after several violent encounters during the protests opposing the Trump administration’s disastrous ICE raids in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge Hernán D. Vera blocked the Los Angeles...
FBI Deputy Director MIA as Fury Over Epstein Files Grows

FBI Deputy Director MIA as Fury Over Epstein Files Grows

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is so upset with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s dismissal of the Epstein case that Bongino took the day off on Friday and may quit. Far-right commentator and Trump confidant Laura Loomer broke the story on Friday morning, and it was...
Calmes: The Supreme Court’s deference to Trump is astounding

Calmes: The Supreme Court’s deference to Trump is astounding

The nation’s federal judges — including appointees of presidents of both parties, Donald Trump’s among them — have been the bulwark against Trump’s reign of lawlessness on deportations, spending, federal appointments and more. Repeatedly, lower courts have been...