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A kerfuffle in Grand Rapids, Mich., in recent days revealed a grim truth about America’s institutions in these troubled times: Too many of them lack the courage to stand up to the threat to democracy that is Donald Trump, thereby contributing to the alarming staying power of the once and perhaps future president. We already know about the failure of the main institutional players in this constitutional crisis: those atop the Republican Party. “Political parties are democracy’s gatekeepers,”...
Former President Donald Trump's latest demand to put the Manhattan hush money trial on hold was just smacked down.According to the Associated Press, Trump was seeking to stay the trial, the first of his four criminal cases to go to court, while he tries to get the case moved out of Manhattan to another jurisdiction on the grounds that he can't get a fair jury pool there.However, according to the report, Justice Marsha Michael "has once again denied a request by Trump’s attorneys to halt his...
Trump's new grift: Charging GOP candidates to use his name As if selling sneakers and Bibles wasn’t grift enough. Jimmy Kimmel's late-night digs are driving Trump bonkers Kimmel’s trolling of “yabba dabba doofus” is just what we need. Cartoon: The running mate Sometimes you’re just stuck with someone. New poll shows when Republicans talk about abortion, they're losing Despite what Republicans hope, abortion is not a subject that can be swept under the rug. Trump wants to gut diversity...
A few weeks after being elected Manhattan’s top prosecutor, Alvin Bragg sat in a Harlem café bullishly explaining how he planned to balance his reformist priorities for the borough with the infamously knotty task of confronting former President Donald Trump in court. “I’ve done a lot of cases that are considered no-win,” Bragg told CNN at the time, in December 2021. “I think going into most of those cases people were like, ‘Ooh, you’re gonna get a lot of heat however it comes out.’ That’s the...
The director of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign in Wisconsin, who pushed allegations of widespread fraud that were ultimately debunked, has been hired to run the Republican Party of Wisconsin heading into the November election.
Yes, the early stages of Trump's trial have been dominated by dull legal procedures, but this trial is the stuff of tabloid dreams. It will find an audience far beyond those interested in Trump for his politics.
What started as legitimate and even understandable student protests against the carnage in Gaza have quickly morphed into something much more sinister.
The real significance of last weekend is that it revealed there is now a putative alliance of Israel, America, the more robust European powers and a collection of key Sunni Arab states in the making.
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder explained the meaning behind the band's politically-themed song off their album "Dark Matter."The song titled "Wreckage" is purportedly about Donald Trump, Vedder told the Times, calling the former president and candidate "desperate to win" and only looking to avoid imprisonment."There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election," he told the British outlet. "And people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is...
Former President Trump met Wednesday night with Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latest in a series of conversations the presumptive Republican nominee has held with foreign leaders. Trump hosted Duda at Trump Tower in New York City, where the former president is staying as he attends his criminal trial over an alleged hush money scheme.
There's something in the air in New York, and it's coming from Donald