Unfit To Lead

Democratic lawmakers and government watchdogs on Saturday condemned President Donald Trump's abrupt dismissal of Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general who informed Congress last year of the whistleblower complaint which kicked off Trump's...

Trump tweeting at 11pm last night probably got around to reading Tom Nichols’s article in The Atlantic and will probably wake up trying to figure out how to take tenure away from him. More importantly Nichols...

Last night, Robert Mueller’s senior deputy, Andrew Weissmann, filed a motion to revoke Paul Manafort’s bail. Weissmann premised his motion upon an affidavit filed by an FBI agent that testified to the fact that Manafort contacted at least one witness and attempted to establish a “story” that would be told on the stand. Politico does […]

Svengali tales are always fascinating but the image of Steve Bannon and David “Citizens United” Bossie meeting Donald Trump for the first time and scripting the political horror story that we all collectively live in, is going to be one of the most fabled parts of of Bob Woodward’s book if this teaser is any […]

It's been a while since we last examined Donald Trump's ever-raging Twitter habits and it feels like we probably had a damn good reason for that, but let's check in anyway and see how...

Daniel Dale starts his job for CNN on fire, but not in the Black Hills, noting that the Hill can't really call Individual-1 on his interview lies because they don’t want to jeopardize access. President...

Hey, I’d be tired, too.  Wait, I am tired. The past two and a half years have felt like trying to harvest semen from a violently ill marlin on a Tilt-A-Whirl.   In other words, exhausting. But...

Donald Trump watches a lot of television. He’s also intensely sensitive to criticism and tends to monitor it closely. But White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham wants us to believe Trump is not watching...

For better than a year, John Kelly played the role of chief of staff for Donald Trump, during which time he was the designated the “adult in the room” who would supposedly keep Trump’s...

Amid outrage this week over President Donald Trump's racist rhetoric and policies regarding asylum seekers and immigrants, critics expressed shock on Friday over two viral videos of the president meeting with several refugees from...