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Chutzpah!
What do you say about a guy who is demanding that his current legal team pay his old legal team -- one and the same -- for getting him out on the biggest technicality of all time? And he offers to give your and my money to his favorite charity -- or maybe the ballroom ...
Donald Trump is demanding that the Department of Justice (that's his ...Read more
Trump Is Every Day. The Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He's Winning?
Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general opposition to the ruling Republican Party and to express outrage over their various policies.
Like its predecessors, this effort will have zero effect.
Performative protests like "No Kings," ...Read more
My Sister Said Yes to Montana and Helped Me Say Yes to Myself
I would not make the trip by myself, but I also would not pass up the opportunity. I texted my sister Erica, who lives on the West Coast, "How do you feel about Montana?"
Let me back up. When I started writing about conservationists protecting our American landscapes, I knew travel was part of the package. I enjoyed walk-and-talk interviews in ...Read more
Traditional Revolution
When I worked as a reporter, I wouldn't join a political party or sign a petition. I was an "unenrolled" voter. I wouldn't have a bumper sticker on my truck. I never donated to any candidate. I didn't attend marches or protests unless an editor sent me. It's not a big deal. It's just the job.
I'm a newspaper columnist now, and my opinion is ...Read more
It’s Our House – and Trump’s Demolishing It!
Covering the White House, I believe, is the best job in journalism. For nine years – eight under President Obama and one under Trump – I was at the White House every day for the daily briefing.
Even though it was part of my daily routine, I never walked up that West Wing driveway without getting goosebumps. For me, it was like entering the ...Read more
We Need Billionaires Who Do the Right Thing
I don't get politicians who rail against billionaires. There are all kinds of billionaires. Many got rich inventing products we hold dear. Others got rich doing societally useless things like inventing crypto meme coins. And some made their pile through corruption and crime.
This is about the good ones.
Hamdi Ulukaya made billions founding ...Read more
Pooping on the Parade
If he can do it, I can say it. But why did he do it? You know why? The same reason your kids would -- ridicule; mockery. A visible showing of contempt for a significant percentage of what we used to call your fellow Americans.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing it?
I remember speaking at a panel with Newt Gingrich right after his revolution...Read more
'Kings Not on Their Toes Can Be Deposed'
The "No Kings" protest across the nation added up to nearly 7 million people protesting President Donald Trump's reign. Dissent is upon us, catching and spreading.
Shakespeare's King Lear, King Charles I of England and King Louis XVI of France met fates that upended their eras. Two kings literally lost their heads. Here's the deal, straight ...Read more
What if Democrats Started to Support Democrats Again?
When will top Democratic Party officials recognize that today's electorate is not made up of moderate centrists?
Rather, most Americans are anti-establishment rebels who've been knocked down, kicked out and told that they don't matter. Indeed, our country's true political spectrum doesn't run right to left, but top to bottom. Right-wing/left-...Read more
Louisiana's Black Voting Power Is On the Line in Redistricting Fight
When Louisiana finally won a second majority-Black district in 2024, I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. For decades, Black voters like me knew that having only one voting district where we could be heard was not enough to reflect a third of the state's population. So when the state gained a second seat, I thought of those who fought ...Read more
Hegseth’s New Rules for Journalists Won't Make America Safer
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has done it again.
As his latest outrage touched off an unprecedented revolt by almost every media outlet covering the Pentagon, I once again was reminded of my own Army days when we called it the “five-sided funhouse,” although not within earshot of the “brass,” our superior officers.
The headquarters of...Read more
Your Questions Answered: How To Push Back on Abuses of Power
In his first nine months back in office, President Donald Trump has abused his power to attack our neighbors and communities, suppress free speech and create a climate of fear. The president has deployed military troops and federal agents into our cities. He has threatened nonprofit organizations, universities and political opponents who don't ...Read more
Pam Bondi Faces Critics, 'Burns' Them
A lot of political figures are understandably nervous about facing a Senate committee probe.
Not Pam Bondi.
In more than four hours of testimony Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she responded to the most polite questions with the air of contempt worthy of her boss, President Trump, who tends to react to the idea of accountability as ...Read more
Trump Is Abusing His Power To Build a Dangerous National Policing Force
The Trump administration continues to escalate its deployment of military troops and federal law enforcement to cities across the country. We are witnessing the build-out of a national paramilitary policing force that could be used to intimidate people and consolidate President Donald Trump's power.
This week alone, the administration placed ...Read more
Trump Faces His Generals
When President Donald Trump dropped the bizarre suggestion last week that the military should use American cities as “training grounds” to fight what he called “an enemy within,” it sounded almost like old news.
After all, Trump has talked like this for years. "Don't take him literally," some would say. Or, that's just Trump being Trump...Read more
What's at Stake as the Supreme Court Takes Up Transgender Sports Bans
Over the last five years, politicians across the country have targeted transgender people and our families. They've banned our health care, censored our speech and made schools less safe for transgender students. One of the most consistent focus areas for many of these politicians has been the rights of transgender student athletes, ...Read more
The Conflict Entrepreneurs Behind Our Broken Politics
I have long become accustomed to what I call the "BTMF” reflex whenever a great, newsmaking calamity or outrage happens.
That’s short for “Blame the media first.”
As a long-tenured journalist, I try not to take it personally. Yet sometimes the complainers have a point, and we in the news business would do a better job and provide ...Read more
Protecting Free Speech in the Face of Government Retaliation
The Trump administration is enthusiastically abusing its power to intimidate anyone who criticizes its policies, and to silence those who won't fall in line. Now, using a long-standing government tactic, the administration is leveraging a tragedy to justify its censorship campaign.
The government is villainizing and threatening to punish ...Read more
Welcome to the World of MAGA Machismo, Where Muscles Trump Brains
Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:
Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more
Trump and his lawyers think he can get away with anything. It's outlandish.
WASHINGTON -- "The king can do no wrong." That is the ancient legal maxim used to explain why a sovereign should not be held to account for misdeeds. President Trump and his lawyers are now making arguments that make this legal doctrine look wimpy. Their vision boils down to: The king can do whatever wrong he damn pleases, and there's nothing ...Read more




















































