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I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of lawmakers trying to cover their backsides when the Supreme Court justices they voted to confirm turn out as bad as the rest of us thought. Today, senators Susan Collins and Joe Manchin say they feel betrayed by Kavanaugh and Gorsuch who, they say, promised during their confirmation hearings that they’d honor

The 10 revelations of Trump's malice

It gave the biggest demagogue of our era an hour of primetime, in front of a fawning audience of admirers. Here's why.

And asking what I'll do with all my extra time

If McCarthy and House Republicans don’t like it, let them take him to court

It's utter rubbish

The death of Queen Elizabeth II is not a tragedy. Her life was long and noble, in every sense of the word. That Britain mourns her passing itself signals something special about the relationship between the Brits and their Royal Family. For it is in fact

We must stop Trumpian fascism

His Sunday post shows he has neither the judgment nor character to manage the platform

His name should not be allowed on the 2024 ballot

Today, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point in order to battle inflation, even as the economy has begun to slow. This follows a quarter-point move in March, another half a point in May, and three-quarters of a point in June. The Fed also

Ignore them and rely on the Constitution

Clarence Thomas’s bizarre claim that he failed to disclose the lavish gifts he received from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow because he didn’t believe he had to brought me back to a day 30 years ago when Bill Gates asked me to lunch. I was secretary of labor then. Gates was the CEO of Microsoft, and the richest person in America.

Another reason for hope

It was completely manufactured by Kevin McCarthy and his House Republicans

Written 30 years ago

I’ve known Senator Dianne Feinstein for many years. It’s time for her to step down. I say this with great sadness — as one of her friends, one of her admirers, one of her constituents, and as someone who cares (as I’m sure she does) about the future of America.

The GOP has manufactured them to deflect our attention from the real crisis

[Some of you received an earlier version of this letter last night] Friends, Did you catch Ron DeSantis’s announcement on Twitter? No? Of course not. Who in their right mind would waste their time listening to DeSantis being interviewed by Elon Musk? Who would want to give any credence at all to the anti-woke culture warrior and the anti-worker robber baron?

He doesn’t stop

How to undo the Fox propaganda feedback loop

“Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” Donald Trump raged today after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida and broke open a safe, apparently looking for documents that Trump illegally took from the White House.

And four lessons

Donald Trump has been indicted. You're going to hear three basic criticisms of this indictment. Let me rebut each in turn. This sets a dangerous precedent. Rubbish. In order for the justice system to work, there must be trust that the system will not play favorites or ignore the wrongdoing of the powerful.

And why all of us must speak out against it.

To tell America the unvarnished truth

The problem with “everything works out in the end” reassurance

My shameful act in the 1960s

Biden has revived an older economic paradigm

Tennessee offers a chilling example

Friends Memorial Day as an occasion to honor those who have given their lives so that our democracy can endure. It’s also an occasion to reaffirm our commitment to holding accountable those who have threatened our democracy. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, to 18 years in prison, for seditious conspiracy against the United States. Rhodes is the first Jan. 6 defendant sentenced under that charge, and he received the longest prison term yet in the Justice Department’s probe into the Capitol attack.

And tried to make me into a soufflé

Who is he kidding?

Today's display shows it no longer has any reason for being

What’s happening to Trump, Fox News, Putin and other public-be-damned scoundrels

The myth and reality of our 39th president

And why they’re doing it

Three whoppers peddled by the GOP and repeated by the mainstream media

Make corporations, rather than workers and consumers, fight inflation

And how to save it forever!