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Trump Lashes Out, Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict

By Yuval Rosenberg

Donald Trump today vowed to appeal his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to silence an adult film star’s story about a sexual encounter...
After the Capitol Attack: What Happens Next

By Yuval Rosenberg

The fallout from Wednesday’s chaos at the Capitol continued Thursday — and will likely be felt for some time. Here are the top developments: Congress certifies election, Trump says he will leave:...
How Do We Respond to the Trump Insurrection?

By Yuval Rosenberg

Today, January 6, 2021, is a date which will live in infamy, to borrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Only today’s horrifying attack on American...
Of Four Options Facing Trump in Qatar, Only One Is the Right Choice

By Patrick Smith

Three weeks after President Trump’s closely watched meeting with Arab leaders during his visit to Saudi Arabia, the No.1 question for Trump’s foreign policy team is how to navigate in a region that...
How the Comey Hearing Made America Great Again

By Ciro Scotti

That sound you’ve been hearing for almost five months is the world laughing at America as the rubes from New York bumble around Washington smashing the fine china of governance in a spectacle of...

The Only Person Who Can Bring Down Trump Is Sitting in the Oval Office

By Edward Morrissey

Could a wealthy businessman managing his own company do better operating the federal government than a politician? The experiment has just begun, but it’s already apparent that the type of...
The Comey Firing Proves We Need Two Special Counsels, Not One

By Edward Morrissey

James Comey finds himself out of a job unexpectedly – and perhaps not unreasonably. The timing of his exit and the confusion over the status of the investigation into alleged Russian interference in...
Democrats, Now the Party of No, Stonewall Trump at Their Peril

By Liz Peek

As Democrats have comfortably settled into their new role as the Party of No, some say the formerly obstructionist Republicans are getting their just desserts. But there is one stark difference...
Trump's Troubling Embrace of Anti-Democratic Leaders and Policies

By Rob Garver

From the earliest days of his presidential campaign, there has been an air of authoritarianism around the man who now occupies the Oval Office. But over the past few weeks, as Donald Trump approached...
These Big, Expensive Giveaways to Illegal Immigrants Will Backfire on Liberals

By Liz Peek

As Trump ramps up border security, liberal Democrats vow ever-greater resistance. Blue states are increasingly adopting policies that bolster their pro-immigrant bona fides, but that may ultimately...

Charm Offensive Ends as Boehner Calls Obama Reckless

By Eric Pianin

With pressure building after weeks of stalemate over spending bills and a new budget for the coming fiscal year, fireworks broke out on Thursday after House Speaker John Boehner, (R-Ohio) accused...
IRS on How to Run a ‘Slush Fund’: Use It or Lose It

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

The IRS had a perverse incentive to blow $4.1 million on luxury hotel suites, “plastic squirting fish,” and a “Star Trek” parody video at an August 2010, conference. It had excess funding to hire...
Consumer Alert: The NSA Has Your Phone Records

By Reuters

The U.S. National Security Agency is collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon Communications customers, according to a secret court order obtained and published by the Guardian newspaper's...
Obamacare Creates a Two-Tiered Medicaid System

By Eric Pianin

Nearly a year after the Supreme Court limited the expansion of Medicaid under President Obama’s health care reform law, the federal-state health program for the poor and disabled is fast evolving...
Obama’s Samantha Power Problem: Crossing the Red Line

By David Francis

Samantha Power witnessed genocide firsthand in Bosnia. Now she might be forced to watch it again in Syria.

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