I ask you: What is the measure of a man? Is it the number of times he repeats âsays who?â on television? The degree to which he denies ever having been to Prague? The amount of felonies he admits to having committed on behalf of the President of the United States?
These days, it may seem like the New York Times has a monopoly on bad columnists, given its roster of legends like Thomas Friedman and Frank Bruni as well as the lethal duo of Bari Weiss and Bret Stephens (not to be confused with Brett Stevens, who is good and logical and my friend) pumping out bad takes by theâŚ
In an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Hillary Clinton said her husbandâs affair with Monica Lewinsky, the political scandal that derailed his presidency, wasnât an abuse of the office, because Lewinsky âwas an adultâ at the time.
Things were already bad enough. Then the universe conjured this special piece of hell-news, just for me: Bill and Hillary Clinton are going on a 13-city North American tour starting next month.
As his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee drags into its third day, the picture of Brett Kavanaugh is becoming somewhat clearer. But a Princeton professor writing in a New York Times op-ed on Wednesday added a seedy new layer of context to Kavanaughâs place during Bill Clintonâs administration,âŚ
One of the worst things about the neverending news cycle that is the Trump presidency is the rotating cast of dipshit lawyers from the â90s and early aughts who keep popping back into our lives and on our television screens for one reason or another. The latest addition is former Clinton White House counsel LannyâŚ
Weâve been down this road before and will traverse it many times before this comes to pass, but I will not pass up an opportunity to say, each time: Oh HELL no.
On Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo flew a little bit too close to the sun while cosplaying as a committed leftist in his neverending battle to one-up challenger Cynthia Nixon.
Donald Trumpâs favorite part of being president, even as everything else goes to hell, has always been to speak to crowds of thousands of his adoring fans. He likes it so much, in fact, that he reportedly watches replays from his rallies like a maniac.
Listen, I donât like this either, but: CNN ran a segment that involved talking to Donald Trump supporters about QAnon, an online conspiracy theory that involves all the right wing internetâs favorite ingredients: Hillary Clinton, child sex rings, murder, and a heroic Trump.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions loves to laughâspecifically at chants about throwing Hillary Clinton in prison.
While a bacchanal for the most boring among us was getting under way in Central Park, an even less comprehensible gathering was taking place in Battleground, U.S.A (aka Columbus, OH) in the form of âOpportunity 2020,â a convention hosted by Third Way, the think tank that positions itself as a âcenter-leftâ alternativeâŚ
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that American Media, the publisher of the National Enquirer, had been subpoenaed for records related to its payment of $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, as part of the criminal investigation into former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. A new Washington Post reportâŚ
The Democratic Party, scared shitless by the idea of another drawn-out primary process in 2020 (read: a genuine left wing challenge to an establishment pick), is moving its summer convention up by two weeks, making it the earliest convention in more than 20 years.
In a call with supporters to celebrate his first 500 days in office on Monday, President Donald Trump praised his âdeplorables,â telling Republican activists: âWeâre the hot ones right now.â
California congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who said last week that people should be âopen to all points of viewâ when it comes to the cause of global warming, thinks itâs fine if people looking to sell their homes donât want to do so to LGBTQ people.
On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted this succinct, convincing message about the ongoing investigation into his presidential campaignâs ties to the Russian government:
Have you felt an acute-but-nagging desire to fade back into the nothingness of the universe yet today? No? Well look no further!
A certain kind of person might be waiting for the ClintonsâHillary in particularâto burst back onto the political scene to help the Democrats win across the country in Novemberâs midterms. But for a host of reasons, the Clintons have been largely absent, with a Monday report from The New York Times further suggestingâŚ
You may already know about Philippe Reines, Hillary Clintonâs longtime aide and chief mudslinger. Heâs best known for being a maniacal Clinton devotee, who once copped to going off his meds in an effort to embody Donald Trump during the campaignâs 2016 debate prep.
