The Senate overrode Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act earlier today, by an 81-13 vote. Most of the chatter about the bill has focused on its provision to strike the names of
My partner – who has a Masters in Russia-Eurasia Studies and extensive work experience in the Former Soviet Union – announced this morning that she’s not reading anything else about the Manf
The lesson is that there are no consequences for obstructing justice – so long as the GOP has at least 1/3 of the Senate. It gets better. Trump is nominating the current head of the SEC to replace B
One of the major stories in Native American history is how appointees to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other agencies created to administer Native Americans after their conquest by the U.S. governm
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
Regular readers of Lawyers, Guns and Money will know that I’ve long argued that progressivism must be internationalist in orientation. Among other reasons, contemporary kleptocracy and oligarchy
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
The consequences of the Trump administration have been both depressing and predictable. The only uncertainty: the scope and speed of the cruelty inflicted on the vulnerable and the ultimate extent of