Trump's New Megaphone Can't Pass a Bar Exam
The most important job in the White House is being the government's voice to the American people. The person now holding it has never passed a bar exam in any state, and the White House's only proof o…
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The War Is Over. The Dead Are Still Being Counted.
The Pentagon declared the Iran war over in June, then spent four more months refusing to count the men and women it kept losing. "We have nothing to provide beyond the Defense Casualty Analysis System…
Three Weeks Before the Midterms, They Raided Her House
Before dawn on a Monday in October, federal agents carried boxes of seized evidence out of the home of a sitting member of Congress, three weeks before the election that will decide who controls the H…
Trump's DOJ Weaponizes Antitrust Against the Press
The Justice Department that spent two years abandoning antitrust enforcement against Big Tech has just pointed that same law at the news media. "The investigation is nonsense. Trump may view the presi…
ICE Shot a Father. The Mayor Got a Lecture.
After federal agents shot a father in front of his five-year-old son, the mayor of New York learned that his city answers to no one he can call. "There is no justification for what we have seen today.…
He Wanted Their Charts. They Wanted His Boss's
The administration's favorite weapon is a demand for medical records, and the weapon just found a target with a sealed door behind it. "Talafreako needs to release the medical records (if they exist a…
The Midterm Casino Has a Trump Family Discount
By November, every House race will carry a price on a betting machine, and the richest family in American politics holds a stake in the house. "Any conversation about what's going on with prediction m…
The Ambassador Who Priced the White House
Days before her confirmation hearing as the United States ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle sent a loyal Trump donor a text that read like a sales pitch with the price tag still on: wire $100,0…
The U.S. Just Sanctioned Justice Itself
Hours after the world handed a peace prize to a war crimes judge, Washington moved to strangle the court that could one day try its own. "Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC." …