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Stopping Trump's Qatar Airliner Scam
Eager to accept a luxury airliner from the government of Qatar, President Donald Trump is testing the limits of Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Usually eager to behave like the servile puppies that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) once described with scorn (before becoming one himself), at least a handful of GOP elected officials seem worried that this "...Read more
Suffer The Little Children, At Kennedy's Whim
Conducting his first press conference as secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved swiftly to demonstrate yet again why he is so unfit for that critical cabinet post.
In one of many egocentric abuses of his newfound power, Kennedy has directed his department's resources away from vital research on cancer and ...Read more
Absolute Power Brings Economic Catastrophe
Everyone should have known what was about to happen when Donald Trump announced huge global tariffs under the slogan "Make America Wealthy Again." Like "Make America Healthy Again," which accompanied the return of deadly measles, the cheery tagline for Trump's trade war foretold ruin -- which has arrived at warp speed.
Within hours, the ...Read more
One Word Describes What Trump Has Done
As Americans struggle to grasp President Donald Trump's reversal of American foreign policy, which abruptly overturned decades of cooperation with other democracies to contain authoritarian aggression, many observers have faltered.
Describing what Trump has done strains the usual vocabulary of analysts, who are still not fully prepared to ...Read more