A two-tiered system: Trump calls for Tina Peters to be freed from prison
Tina Peters was sent to prison after acting on Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies. The president, indifferent to to her...
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Facing serious new allegations, Pete Hegseth advances purge of Pentagon leaders
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's shambolic tenure at the Pentagon has gone from bad to worse to cover-your-eyes embarrassing over the...
It’s not just Canada: An anti-Trump backlash helps fuel Labor Party win in Australia
Opposition to Donald Trump helped propel a center-left party to victory in Canada. Days later, an eerily similar set of...
Why Trump’s push to reopen Alcatraz as a working prison is such a misguided idea
When looking for evidence of Trump’s lack of seriousness on matters of public policy, look no further than his plan...
Many Catholic leaders weren’t amused by Trump’s ‘joke’ about becoming pope
When Donald Trump isn't using faith as a sword against his perceived political foes, he’s using it as a punch...
‘I don’t know’: Trump stumped on whether he must uphold the U.S. Constitution
It was a simple question: “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” Donald Trump's...
Howard Lutnick’s vision of ‘great jobs of the future’ looks a lot like the past
“The new model” that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is excited about looks an awful lot like the factory jobs that...
The White House really does want Fox News to fire its pollster
The more the White House calls on Fox News to fire its pollster, the more we’re reminded that Donald Trump...
‘I’m not the one making this decision’: President Bystander strikes again
Confronted with key questions about life-or-death issues, Donald Trump continues to offer the public a lot of shrugged shoulders and...
Why Trump, at the 100-day mark, is relying so heavily on gaslighting
Donald Trump won’t course-correct if he embraces an alternate reality in which he’s already on the right track.