January 2021 started off with every Wednesday, thus far, experiencing a major, historic event. Maybe should just cancel next Wednesday, the last Wednesday of January. I think we’ve had enough excitement for one month. Wednesdays MORE
The good people at The Lincoln Project made a little video reviewing some of the bigly numbers of Trump’s presidential legacy. Behold: Since Republicans will now use National Debt fearmongering to try to fight every MORE
A personal favorite among the things that won’t be missed: Donald Trump Jr.’s redneck cosplay. As a rural Alabama native who grew up in a family full of hunters, it’s sometimes entertaining to watch Junior—a MORE
While Donnie has been dominating the country’s attention the Waddler has been very busy chewing at the wiring and setting up booby traps for the incoming administration. Here’s some comment on what he’s been up MORE
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has an idea about how to make next week’s inauguration as safe as possible: Just move it to a few weeks later! “We probably could have had a swearing-in and inauguration MORE
In today’s Republican Party, the path to power is to build up a lie in order to overturn democracy. At least that is what Senator Josh Hawley was telling us when he offered a clenched-fist salute to MORE
“We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” Republicans in Congress are pretending to MORE
The memory of impeachment is back with a vengeance this week. Though Biden beat Trump, the president continues to try to overturn Biden’s victory. In a phone call on Saturday that was eerily reminiscent of MORE
In 2016, right-wing talk radio gave Donald Trump the boost he needed to put him in the White House. The hosts loved him and promoted him relentlessly. The same goes for George W. Bush. And MORE
After publishing a tweet in the morning about the “massive evidence of widespread fraud,” the president and his controversial lawyer released a court filing making largely the opposite point: “Despite the chaos of election night and the MORE
Everyone I talked to in Georgia says there are two keys to winning those races in January. One is preventing that drop-off in votes cast in a runoff, and reassembling a version of the coalition MORE
The New York case turns on a memorandum Trump issued in July, which provides that “for the purpose of the reapportionment of Representatives following the 2020 census, it is the policy of the United States to exclude from the MORE
Many analysts and experts think that President-elect Joe Biden’s early cabinet-level appointments signal a change in how America is going to approach climate change. The former vice president has appointed John Kerry as his special MORE
If the Iranians retaliate, giving Mr. Trump a pretext to launch a return strike before he leaves office in January, Mr. Biden will be inheriting bigger problems than just the wreckage of a five-year-old diplomatic MORE
The parallels between Sarkozy and Trump are striking, and one of them is that their electorates found their in-their-face presidential styles tiring. They were both retired after one term. In 2012, the French opted for MORE
Here’s some of the better analysis I’ve come across, the conclusions are not necessarily in agreement, but speak to the divisions we are seeing in the Party on what went wrong. The number-one explanation: Donald MORE
A failure to hold Barr accountable when he is so obviously conniving with Trump to meddle in the processes of counting votes and certifying results would signal to the American people and to both parties MORE
Donald Trump and his team haven’t been subtle about their plans for this evening and the days that follow. “[W]e’re going to go in night of, as soon as that election is over, we’re going MORE
“The obvious caveat is that when you drop 30 percent and gain 30 percent, you’re still below where you started,” said one analyst. The GDP numbers appear quite remarkable but in the last quarter, the MORE
HERE’S A TRICK question about the controversy over Hunter Biden’s laptop: Who’s most to blame for giving this pseudo-scandal more attention than it deserves? The New York Post for publishing the first sketchy article, or Fox MORE
While Trump and company continues to search for a big October Surprise for the 2020 campaign, it seems they are hell-bent on going lower than ever before. First there was the supposed “coup” that was MORE
***Ms. G’s notes: The Rolling Stone has always published excellent investigative journalist articles; the article I sourced is just one of many. If you have the time, read it. In a nutshell, President Obama won MORE
The New England Journal of Medicine released an unprecedented editorial on Wednesday that rebuked the leadership of the Trump administration in the COVID-19 pandemic, and called for Americans to vote them out in November. The MORE
This is what Robert Reich has to say on the matter. For about a minute today I found myself feeling sorry for Donald Trump. The poor man is now “battling” Covid-19 (the pugilistic verb is showing MORE
For four years, Donald Trump’s tax returns have been the white whale of political journalists and the most sought-after material of any presidency this side of Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes. Naturally, when The New York Times obtained and MORE