Housing discrimination is how Donald Trump got his start in public racism. If you are unfamiliar with the history, the Department of Justice sued the Trump family real estate management company in 1973 for barring rentals from prospective non-white tenants in New York City. The government found that the Trump …
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WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren may be best known for her public flaying of inept financial executives and aggressive policy ideas aimed at the banking industry, but the Massachusetts senator is setting the pace among the 2020 contenders when it comes to education. On Monday, Warren pledged that, if elected president, …
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After our commander-in-chief first took to Twitter today to bizarrely tell the world that “political correctness” was to blame for the Kentucky Derby’s controversial outcome, President Trump got back to his usual Twitter habits of blasting his perceived enemies. When the Mueller investigation came to a close last month, Trump …
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The satirist Ambrose Bierce, author of the Devil’s Dictionary, once defined radicalism as “the conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today.” What Bierce wittily captured — that today’s radicals are tomorrow’s normies — means that at any given moment, the current political establishment will be fighting off the …
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Patrick Carlineo, a 55-year-old man from upstate New York, was arrested after calling Rep. Ilhan Omar‘s (D-MN) office and threatening to kill her. “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she’s a fucking terrorist. I’ll put a bullet in her fucking skull,” he said, …
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In an opinion being trumpeted by the National Rifle Association as a “huge win for gun owners,” a federal judge has ruled that California’s ban on high-capacity gun magazines is unconstitutional. District judge Roger Benitez struck down the California ban on magazines holding more than 10 bullets, ruling that the …
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been taking heat this week for cutting funding from the Special Olympics in its budget proposal this year, but a department official familiar with the process who spoke with CNN said it was the White House Office of Management and Budget that insisted on revoking …
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke at SXSW on Saturday night, covering topics ranging from capitalism to automation and political moderates. The breakout star of the incoming freshman class of Democrats spoke with moderator Briahna Gray, senior politics editor atThe Intercept,at the “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the New Left” event, where she criticized capitalism …
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che lampooned President Trump’s laughable Friday press conference in which he announced he signed a national emergency declaration to fund his pet project border wall with Mexico. Jost started the segment pointing out just how bizarre Trump’s behavior was during …
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Nobody knows more about ISIS than Donald Trump does. Or about hunting down enemies. Or preventing terrorist attacks —believe him. The 45th president lacks military experience but seems to believe he would have served his country better than any of the men and women who actually chose to do so. …
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