President Trump isn’t the first American leader to turn his back on foreign friends who were counting on U.S. assistance: President Dwight D. Eisenhower did it in Hungary in 1956; President John F. Kennedy in Cuba in 1961; and President Gerald Ford in South Vietnam in 1975. MORE
Is Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Breathalyzer) the biggest schmuck currently gracing the halls of Congress? Opinions vary. But not by much. On Monday morning, Fiona Hill, the administration*’s former Russia expert, came to Capitol Hill to testify MORE
Long before President Donald Trump lied about the path of a hurricane and threatened the leadership at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, he nominated the former CEO of AccuWeather to serve as its administrator. In MORE
If you’re like many parents, sometime in the last month or so you gave up the better part of a weekday evening to attend back-to-school night. Perhaps you stuffed your body awkwardly into a tiny MORE
From the looks of things, Rudy Giuliani has been the real secretary of state from Day One of the Trump administration. From Ukraine to Turkey to Iran to Foggy Bottom, Giuliani has left his mark. Who MORE
After Facebook was implicated in the 2016 election wreckage, the company made strides to shore up the platform against future harms to our democracy. But now, Facebook is sabotaging its own efforts through a new MORE
We’re talking hilariously bad. Some movies are so bad, they’re good. These are not those films. These are the lowest-rated flicks — with at least 10 critic reviews — since 2000, according to the movie review MORE
One of Richard Nixon’s lasting gifts to the language was to popularize the American use of “stonewall” as a verb. Discussing whether to allow White House aides to testify before the Senate Watergate committee, Nixon MORE
Source: Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Rees-Mogg pointed to the investor’s record as a financial contributor to anti-Brexit movements – which was seized upon as an echo of antisemitic tropes of the Jewish MORE
CNN’s Chris Cuomo reached into the Republican Party’s past to find a quote that could haunt GOP lawmakers today as the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump gets underway in Congress. In 1950, Sen. Margaret MORE
Donald Trump is probably the weakest he’s been since becoming president. And yet most congressional Republicans refuse to break with the president. Despite his obvious wrongdoing and complete unfitness for the job, the vast majority MORE
He traded his honor to be “relevant” as a Trump adviser. But on Syria, Trump didn’t bother to ask what he thought. It was a cri de cœur from Lindsey Graham, the lament of the sycophant MORE
It’s going to be a blockbuster term for the Court, which will take on abortion, guns, immigration, discrimination — and potentially Obamacare. First Monday is upon us: The first day of the Supreme Court’s new term. MORE
Over the weekend, in a rage over impeachment, President Trump accused Representative Adam Schiff of “treason,” promised “Big Consequences” for the whistle-blower who sounded the alarm about his phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and shared a warning — MORE
Stop me if this sounds familiar: For most American workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. Inequality has skyrocketed. The richest workers are making all the money. Earnings for low-income workers have been pathetic this entire MORE
Canada has swallowed its very own Viagra oil pill and excitedly prepares for engorgement with the anticipated erection of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. It released a press release with the oh, so, original catchphrase MORE
Heavy public attention—as well as congressional scrutiny—is focused on President Donald Trump’s engagements with foreign leaders. MORE
John Solomon’s role in laundering Trump’s Ukraine scandal is just the latest black mark on the dodgy D.C. newspaper. There are many things about life inside the Beltway (physical and metaphorical) that people in the MORE
Nobody is going to hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged Ukrainian shenanigans because—as we’ve seen in his career and the first 32 months of his presidency—he’s too good at deflecting investigators, irate Democrats and MORE
On the surface, the latest confrontation between Congress and the White House involves the Trump administration’s refusal to hand over to the House Intelligence Committee a whistleblower complaint deemed an “urgent concern” by the inspector general for MORE
The NBA’s coaching carousel tends to spin in fits and starts, and the upcoming season could represent a time of relative calm. There are a few factors to consider. First, the list of teams facing MORE
Donald Trump is the King of Chaos. He has lied at least 12,000 times since becoming president of the United States. …..”Chaos is at the nucleus Age of Trump. This chaos and the disruption and destruction it MORE
Leonard Pitts Jr. penned another, very accurate OpEd that describes where we are today: We have a lawless, incompetent president who does not care about anything other than enriching himself and his family and our MORE
This week the region I live in the Netherlands has had a number of memorial services, airshows, parachuting, and other events all in memory of Operation Market Garden MORE
WASHINGTON — Everyone here is keyed up for the Big One.The One that’s going to finally bring Donald Trump down. As soon as the news broke Wednesday night in The Washington Post that a whistle-blower had accused MORE