John Bolton. Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) 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 –...
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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.
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 is transnational character..
President-elect Donald Trump meets with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the clubhouse of the Trump National Golf Club November 20, 2016 in Bedminster, New Jersey. AFP PHOTO / Don EMMERTDON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images I still find it hard to believe that a minority...
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 to.
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.
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-Kasnaza" who wanted the US to adopt a harder line on Iran "checked into the...
Why are U.S. National Parks open during this government shutdown? Before he left office, Department of.
Lest this get lost in all today's fun: Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were indicted Tuesday on charges related to the misuse of $250,000 worth of campaign funds.
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? Perfect! The designers of Credit Mobilier couldn't ask...
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.
Thank God Donald Trump won so the corrupt pro-capitalist neoliberal order could finally be defeated! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery.