President Donald Trump on Thursday hosted a self-indulgent White House event in which he mostly bragged about himself before graciously offering a carefully vetted cadre of visitors the chance to tell him how much his abhorrent tax cuts had helped them.
Here’s a headline that goes a long ways in describing the political hell of our current moment, published today by The Washington Post: “Democrats and Republicans are increasingly divided on the value of teaching black history.”
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Donald Trump’s favorite jibbering MAGA chuds on Fox & Friends spent the hours following the president’s first State of the Union Address absolutely gushing over their dear leader’s ability to competently read racist bullshit from a Teleprompter.
This past summer, noted art-appreciator Donald Trump asked the Guggenheim Museum if they would loan him Vincent Van Gogh’s 1888 “Landscape With Snow” so he could hang the piece in his White House residence. Unfortunately for Trump, the museum was unable to accommodate his request. But, curator Nancy Spector told the…
It’s always been difficult to compare rates of poverty across countries, in part because conditions vary so greatly. Normally, the World Bank counts those living on less than $1.90 per person, per day as the world’s very poorest.
On Tuesday, reporters continued to ask White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to defend Donald Trump’s “shithole” comments, and their implicit racism.
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries on earth. The small percentage of people who hoard that wealth are likely to have a very good year. The markets are booming with no end in sight, and the Republican tax plan is already doing what it was designed to do: entrenching the wealth and power of large…
The Mall in Washington, D.C., is an awkward place for a rally, especially one that’s drawn a smaller crowd than usual. The lawn between the Capitol steps and the Lincoln Memorial is almost two miles long. Every building around here is constructed at a scale to make you feel tiny in the face of the state.
On Wednesday morning, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot while practicing for Congress’ annual charity baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia. Two Capitol Police officers, a lobbyist and a congressional staffer were also wounded. The shooter, Illinois man James T. Hodgkinson, had a history of domestic abuse, as…
America Chavez, Marvel’s first queer woman of color to ever star in her own ongoing comic book, closed out the inaugural issue of America by traveling back in time to World War II, pushing Captain America out of the way, and punching Hitler in the face.
