We Are Stooges for a Bamboozler

The last time Americans faced the possible spread of Ebola to U.S. territory, in 2014, Donald Trump irresponsibly stoked public fears and barked at Barack Obama while doing nothing useful to protect us. By Joe Conason

"Republicans in Congress began to devise a way to pay for renewal of tax cuts for billionaires under special rules that allow them to get the budget through the Senate with a simple majority. But the reconciled budget cannot increase the national debt. " - JMC

One group of oppressed Americans has become especially outspoken this election year, contending that top government officials (Democrats in particular) are ignoring their community’s basic …

Politicians do not appear to be serious about passing a new five-year farm bill before the November elections. nnThe House Agriculture Committee controlled by Republicans on a 33-21 vote May 28 …

Joe Biden showed up for his State of the Union address in the House of Representatives March 7, facing low expectations after years of Republicans depicting the elderly president as in decline. …

Donald Trump has been lying about his businesses for his entire career and now he’s squealing like a stuck pig since a New York court called him on it. Manhattan Justice Arthur F. Engoron …

The special counsel assigned by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents finally produced his report that concluded “no charges are …

Republican politicians have been hollering about the “crisis” at the southern border since Joe Biden took office. But the last thing Republicans want is a deal that might secure the border before …

The New Year brought the third anniversary of Trump’s Failed Insurrection, with more retrospectives evoking memories of that day, when Donald Trump, in a Jan. 6 speech on the Ellipse, called upon …

Donald Trump has been airing his authoritarian fantasies during the course of his campaign to restore him to the presidency, as he tries to avoid criminal prosecution for various felonies. At first, …

One of the frustrating things for Democrats heading into an election year is that Joe Biden is getting little credit for the economic recovery under his watch, and continues to lag in polls, as …

Progressives need to settle down about polls that show criminal defendant Donald Trump running neck and neck, or even slightly ahead of President Joe Biden a year before the election. Sure, Biden …

Donald Trump’s prospects of beating the rap for conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia took a major hit Oct. 20 when Trump-aligned attorney Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to reduced …

The last straw for the Republican Chaos Caucus occurred Sept. 30, when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy let a stopgap funding resolution make it to the House floor that kept the government open into the …

American workers are mounting an overdue effort to assert their place in the economy, and their actions are beginning to show results. Reformers at the helm at Teamsters and United Auto Workers …

Republicans plan to sabotage the economy with the expectation that voters will blame Joe Biden for the government shutdown the extremists plan to force Oct. 1 in their demand for deep cuts in federal …

Donald Trump got 13 new felonies added to his rap sheet Aug. 14, when a grand jury in Atlanta indicted Trump on charges of conspiring with at least 18 other co-defendants in an attempt to …

Special Counsel Jack Smith has finally brought the “main event” indictments in US District Court for the District of Columbia, charging Donald J. Trump with four more felonies: • Conspiracy …

While Donald Trump faces dozens of felony charges in New York and Florida and grand juries in Georgia and the District of Columbia are considering more felony charges relating to his attempts to …