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The House Just Made it Easier to Target Climate Groups
That so many Democrats voted for that bill can be explained partially by the speed with which it was introduced; the package it was a part of was introduced and...
In Defense of Morning Joe
The popular MSNBC chat show Morning Joe is the subject of a ridiculous new uproar. Last week the show’s co-hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, travelled to Mar-a-Lago to...
How to Make Your Daily Media Consumption Less Depressing
Climate-concerned readers and voters are in a tough spot. They don’t have the postelection coping options—escapism, despair, biding one’s time till the next election—open to some other people. The...
Trump Suddenly Goes Weirdly Quiet After Gaetz Mess Triggers MAGA Rage
After Matt Gaetz abruptly withdrew from consideration as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Trump seemed uncharacteristically muted. Intriguingly, he accepted this outcome without once trying to crack the...
Bibi Netanyahu Is Running Out of Vacation Options
With fresh arrest warrants being issued by the International Criminal Court on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have fewer travel options, as a handful of foreign countries...
Here’s How the Gaetz Nomination Fell Apart So Spectacularly
The woman, who was 17 years old at the time, testified that the second sexual encounter, which has not previously been reported, included another adult woman. She also testified...
Vladimir Putin Is “Gleeful” Over This Trump Cabinet Nomination
Last week, the same bill failed to advance out of the House because it failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed to pass during a suspension of the lower...
Trump’s Terrible Defense Pick Can’t Even Defend Own Alleged Actions
Last week, the same bill failed to advance out of the House because it failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed to pass during a suspension of the lower...
Trump Goes Full Dictator in Latest Threat to GOP Senators
Last week, the same bill failed to advance out of the House because it failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed to pass during a suspension of the lower...
Trump Resumes His Endless War Against the First Amendment
Last week, the same bill failed to advance out of the House because it failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed to pass during a suspension of the lower...
Nobody Asked For This: An Anthony Weiner Political Comeback
On top of everything that’s gone wrong for Democrats in November, Anthony Weiner is mulling making a political comeback.The New York Times is reporting that the registered sex offender...
The 15 Democrats Who Voted to Give Trump Insane New Powers
The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act would allow the secretary of the treasury, a Cabinet position appointed by the president, to revoke a nonprofit organization’s...