After three days of arguments by President Donald Trump’s legal team in the Senate’s ongoing impeachment trial, a handful of Democrat lawmakers seem to be considering a vote to acquit. Politico reported Wednesday that the likes of Democrat Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Doug Jones (AL) remain “undecided on...
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson isn’t shy about expressing the way he feels about America’s endless wars and the people who support them, including hawkish former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Carlson compared Bolton on Monday to a snake that routinely bites its host, referencing imagery from a poem that...
Don Lemon gift-wrapped a ready-made advertisement for the president’s re-election campaign by hosting a segment in which Trump supporters were mocked as uneducated and ill-informed. President Donald Trump called Lemon “the dumbest man on television” and retweeted to millions of followers the CNN clip, which shows Lemon doubling over...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi falsely accused President Donald Trump of saying that is free to abuse his power with impunity. Quoting Trump, Pelosi claimed Tuesday that the president’s lawyers had argued the position that he “has a right to abuse his power as much as he wants, and Congress...
During President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial, we’ll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of...
This week, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied forces during World War II. Politicians of all stripes dutifully tweeted, “#NeverAgain.” Meanwhile, many of those same politicians continued to forward the worst sort of anti-Semitism, blithely ignoring the fact that anti-Semitism isn’t a...
Democrats have been demanding to hear testimony in the impeachment trial from former National Security Adviser John Bolton, but Republicans, for the most part, resisted — until a conveniently timed New York Times report dropped on Sunday about an alleged claim in Bolton’s upcoming book that there was an...
On Monday, the Trump administration scored another legal victory for its immigration agenda. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the government can hold immigrants to its updated “public charge” rule. Tighter welfare rules The rule allows the government to deny green cards or visas based on...
John Bolton sure knows how to market a book. The president and his allies have accused Bolton of a cynical ploy to make big profits following a conveniently-timed “bombshell” leak of his upcoming memoir, Fox News reported. Trump’s press secretary Stephanie Grisham questioned the timing of the 11th-hour book...
I began part one of “Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?” with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people in America (and elsewhere, but I am focusing on America). The rates of suicide, self-injury, depression, mass shootings and loneliness (at all ages) are...
Fox News fans voted with their TV remotes against Adam Schiff’s endless, droning impeachment monologues. The network scored its highest impeachment trial ratings yet on Saturday, when Donald Trump’s lawyers began presenting their response to Schiff’s charges, the Washington Examiner reported. Fox attracted 4.2 million viewers, over 1.5 million...
Almost immediately after taking office in 2017, President Trump signed an executive order banning travel from seven different countries on the grounds that those departing from them couldn’t be properly vetted, and national security could therefore be put at risk. While the travel ban policy was extremely controversial and...
The demand from Democrats to subpoena former National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify in the impeachment trial was bolstered on Sunday by a conveniently timed New York Times article claiming that a section of Bolton’s soon-to-be-released book suggested that President Donald Trump linked aid to Ukraine to investigations...
Excerpts from a book written by former National Security Adviser John Bolton were recently leaked to The New York Times, and in them it is claimed that President Trump explicitly said that the now-controversial aid to Ukraine would only be released on the condition that officials in that country...
