The Media Will Be Trump's Enemy as Long as He's President
(Photo: AP/Alex Brandon)White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer departs after speaking in the press briefing room on January 21, 2017.An old adage says that you should never start a fight with someone...
View ArticleOne Horrific Week in, Trump Remains Who He Always Was
(Photo: AP/Elaine Thompson)Emtisal Bazara and Ahmad Bazara look on at a rally in Seattle on January 29, 2017. The couple arrived in the Seattle area with two of their four children in December, four...
View ArticleMocking Trump
Greg Allen/Invision/APAlec Baldwin participates in an anti-Trump rally in New York on January 19, 2017. Something unusual happened over the weekend: Saturday Night Live mocked Donald Trump, and the...
View ArticleWhy Democrats Need to Forget About "Reaching Out"
AP Photo/Wilfredo LeeA supporter holding a "Make America Great Again," hat waits to greet President Donald Trump when he arrives on Air Force One in West Palm Beach, Florida, Friday, February 10, 2017....
View ArticleThe Democratic Party Gets Up Off the Mat
AP Photo/Branden CampFormer Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who is a candidate to run the Democratic National Committee, before speaking during the general session of the DNC winter meeting in Atlanta,...
View ArticleEvery Bizarre Trump Eruption Is a Rehearsal for When It Really Matters
AP Photo/Evan VucciPresident Donald Trump speaks before signing two executive orders aimed at supporting women in STEM fields, Tuesday, February 28, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in...
View ArticleAmericans Must Liberate Themselves From the Oppression of Health Coverage,...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP ImagesSpeaker of the House Paul Ryan conducts a presentation on the American Health Care Act, the GOP's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. As they try...
View ArticleRepublicans Have Already Lost the Health-Care Debate
AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteMajority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Speaker Paul Ryan prepare to face reporters at Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill. If we had to reduce the...
View Article10 Lessons From the Republican Health-Care Debacle
Rex Features via AP ImagesThe hands of President Donald J. Trump while attending a meeting on health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. At the end of last week, the legislative Hindenburg...
View ArticleWhen All Else Fails, Cut Taxes for the Rich
(Photo: AP/Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, center, is introduced by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, left, and Representative Jeb Hensarling during Mnuchin's...
View ArticleCould Bill O'Reilly, the King of Cable News, Be Going Down?
Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, FileBill O'Reilly attends The Hollywood Reporter's 2016 "35 Most Powerful People in Media" celebration in New York. "When you're a star, they let you do it," said Donald Trump...
View ArticleThe Vital Purpose Behind Protesting Over Trump's Tax Returns
(Photo: AP)Protesters walk during the Tax March in Washington, D.C., on April 15, 2017.Donald Trump's tax returns seemed like the kind of second- or third-tier issue that people might have opinions...
View Article100 Days of Winning
AP Photo/Susan WalshPresident Donald Trump walks up the steps of Air Force One at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. Dear America,I write you to mark my first 100 days in office, an...
View ArticleWhy Liberals Are So Worked Up About Barack Obama Giving a Paid Speech to Wall...
AP Photo/Charles Rex ArbogastFormer President Barack Obama hosts a conversation on civic engagement and community organizing, Monday, April 24, 2017, at the University of Chicago. In a decision that...
View ArticleWhy Selling the Public on the AHCA Will Not Be Easy
Cheriss May/Sipa via AP ImagesHouse Speaker Paul Ryan shakes hands with President Donald Trump upon the passage of legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act in the Rose Garden of the White...
View ArticleTrump's Loyalty Crisis
AP Photo/Evan VucciPresident Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office of the White House. "I just feel that loyalty is a very, very important part of life, not only of business but of life,"said Donald...
View ArticleTrump's Big Mouth Got Him Elected President. Now It's His Undoing.
AP Photo/Carolyn KasterPeople in the audience hold up signs as President Donald Trump speaks at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania., Saturday, April, 29,...
View ArticleThe Trump Doctrine Emerges, and It's as Bad as We Thought
(Photo: Sipa USA via AP)Environmental activists protest Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, outside Trump Tower in Chicago on June 2, 2017.Donald Trump possesses a remarkable ability...
View ArticleEverybody Needs to Stop Telling Hillary Clinton to Shut Up
AP Photo/Patrick SemanskyFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a fundraiser for the Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel in Baltimore, Monday, June 5, 2017. You've seen the headlines,...
View ArticleMedicaid Is the Future of American Health Insurance -- If It Can Survive the...
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP ImagesParticipants hold signs during the Senate Democrats' rally against Medicaid cuts in front of the U.S. Capitol. While liberals often say that their ultimate goal in...
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