The New York Times has acquired a leaked draft of John Bolton’s book. If true – and there’s no reason to believe that the story is wrong or that Bolton is lying about key details – it
Lev Parnas is a crook and a liar; he played a non-trivial role in spreading the web of lies at the heart of the Orange Extortion scandal. Marcy Wheeler writes that: Over and over, we see Parnas feedin
I still find it hard to believe that a minority of American voters, located in just the right places to activate flaws in our electoral system, gave the awesome power of the U.S. government over to a
Hiroko Tabuchi and Coral Davenport in the New York Times: The Justice Department has opened an antitrust inquiry into the four major automakers that struck a deal with California this year t
Another day, another story about someone giving money to Trump in an effort to sway public policy. This time, according to the Washington Post, “a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-KasnazaR
Why are U.S. National Parks open during this government shutdown? Before he left office, Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a policy document in January 2018 that outlines how national
The New Gilded Age sure looks a lot like the first Gilded Age. The first congresscritter to endorse Trump is on the board of a publicly traded company and he uses it to engage in insider trading? Perf
Just another Trump appointee: A multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been quietly making its way through the New York State court system over the last three years, pitting a private equity manager named Da