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The singular star of the 1976 bicentennial celebration in the nation’s capital was our founding document which formally declared America’s...
Statuesque, bronzed, and wrinkle-free, Bettina Anderson Trump fits right in with Ivanka, Lara, and Tiffany as the latest member of the Cat Pack™....
Doug McCain, the eldest son of the late Sen. John McCain, has died suddenly at age 66. His cause of death has not been disclosed. “I am deeply...
It seemed inconceivable when Richard Nixon won a historic presidential election victory in 1972 that his own Republican Party would turn on him two...
This week’s election results affirmed that the most corrupt, unpopular, and sleepiest president of the modern age somehow retains an unbreakable...
President Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion “weaponization” slush fund has presented a choice between expiation and damnation to a convicted felon...
President Donald Trump’s latest scam against the American taxpayer is brazen even by his usual, shameless standards. The president’s Department of...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from David Rothkopf, subscribe here. Let us start with...
Grift and Graft, the twin pillars of Trump’s presidency, are the basis of his latest and most daring ploy—awarding himself a $1.776 billion slush...
He admitted earlier this year to selling private photos of a teenage Mary-Kate Olsen to the tabloids. His sister has publicly described him as abusive...
Two words went unspoken by either Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth or Republican congressman Ed Gallrein at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Hebron,...
It is a sick joke on America’s history that Donald Trump chose the amount of $1.776 billion to bilk from taxpayers to pay his MAGA friends. He has...
The golden age our president promised us has arrived. Never in the long history of our country have we seen a period of such innovation, boldness, and...
How many times do we have to be reminded that Donald Trump is a failure? From the doomed businesses to unfulfilled campaign promises, next to nothing...
In the wake of Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court’s opinion over gerrymandering and redistricting of Congressional maps, a bevy of voices,...
Flying back to the U.S. from Beijing, Donald Trump made it clear that he knew his state visit to China was a flop. He was in a lousy mood. In his...
On a recent visit to my doctor’s office, I was asked the routine questions about whether I had any flu symptoms or had traveled out of the country....
According to White House official and understudy for Bond henchman #3, Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump has left “secret instructions” to...
The most dangerous thing about Donald Trump is that we have become so used to his abhorrent behavior that we treat it as normal. He routinely insults...
This week, from the 13th to the 15th of May, the two men who have arguably done the most during this century to make China the world’s most powerful...
Bad enough, President Trump lied during the State of the Union address to both houses of Congress. On Friday, Trump repeated the very same falsehood...
It’s 2026, and no one has just one job anymore. We’re all micro-influencers, personal assistants, self-caregivers, and rideshare drivers who...
Maine Senator Susan Collins’ re-election chances appear to be on shaky ground—the 73-year-old is trailing her Democratic opponent Graham Platner...
Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and results of a war than...
It started with a simple request, inasmuch as a simple request can upend constitutional principles and electoral freedoms across the country:...
On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to blow Iran “off the face of the Earth” if it attacks a U.S. ship. And since Secretary of Defense...
Maybe we were a little premature on the whole “No Kings” thing. An actual monarch showed up in the US this week, and it went great? He gave a...
The national capital already has a bigger, more beautiful ballroom than the $400 million one that President Donald Trump is seeking to build at the...
Outside of the Washington Hilton in D.C. on March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot. It was a seminal moment in his presidency and in U.S. history....
America is in crisis. Indeed, the entire world is in a grave state. But stunningly, despite the constant flow of news that immerses us all daily, we...
It’s not quite on par with re-opening the Strait of Hormuz, but it’s what people in Washington are talking about: Will the White House...
Cole Tomas Allen’s failed attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner did so much to boost President Trump’s political fortunes that...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. Mea culpa, mea...
As loudly as President Donald Trump praised the security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, the truth is that...
In high school, a lithesome girl such as Alexis Wilkins would have walked past a loathsome guy like Kash Patel as if he were a wall locker. So it is...
Give Kash Patel a break. If you had to routinely trek over to the White House to kiss the president’s McDonald’s-encrusted a-- —and that’s...
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The president’s latest vanity construction project—the “Arc de Trump,” as it has been dubbed online—is naturally attracting tons of...
Peter Thiel may or may not be the antichrist. The jury is out, the evidence is circumstantial, the lecture series is ongoing and the man himself is...
Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with...
Just imagine if Joe Biden or, indeed, any past president had released $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds, alienated our oldest allies, handed Tehran...
If anybody suffers from a derangement linked to President Donald Trump, it is not the opponents who viscerally object to our current president’s...
During a bonkers press conference Thursday morning at the Pentagon, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth led the crowd in a game of “Bible Verse or Samuel...
The Daily Beast has sent me to Italy to cover the Trump vs. Pope fracas, so today I report from the shores of Lake Como, where the talk of the town is...
Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a funny man. He doesn’t have the talent for jokes like Ronald Reagan or the easy charm of Bill Clinton....
At the midnight hour, President Donald Trump was on Truth Social, attacking Pope Leo XIV. In the morning, he was once again calling former FBI...
His best trans-Atlantic buddy just lost bigly. Hungary’s MAGA-friendly leader Viktor Orban got the boot from voters after 16 years in power, despite...
President Donald Trump was octagon-side at a bloody Ultimate Fighting Championship in Miami even as Vice President JD Vance was announcing in Pakistan...
There is no doubt that JD Vance is one of the smuggest, smarmiest politicians in modern American history. And that is saying a great deal, given that...
It is well known that Donald Trump covets titles, awards and honors. After all, you do not acquire the FIFA Peace Prize, the first and only trophy for...