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Everybody loves Nate Bargatze. Hell, I love Nate Bargatze. The clean-cut comic has built an empire on his dumb, everyman persona. He’s currently the...
Once, we had wars of choice. Today, we have wars of distraction. Call the catastrophically misguided war in Iran and the blink-and-you-missed-it war...
Donald Trump Is Doing Everything Possible to Destroy Himself Donald Trump’s end is going to happen. We’re seeing it now. Below the surface of his...
Donald Trump deserves exactly as much credit for the “deal” with Iran that he has announced as a spouse abuser does for announcing he will stop...
Only a man like Donald Trump would respond to the widespread criticism of his demolition of the East Wing by thinking to himself (inasmuch as Trump...
The day President Donald Trump becomes an octogenarian, mixed martial arts fighters are slated to stride from the Oval Office to punch, kick, and...
In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s now a big sign over the White House proclaiming its “Monster Energy.” In the images, the...
I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but it now appears that the only Trump administration figure who acted with anything resembling a...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. This is how dumb...
I spent my birthday in Italy for the 1990 World Cup, and I was unable to buy an alcoholic drink. It wasn’t that I was too young to order one, but...
Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady has a new calling—and it’s completely nuts. The 48-year-old debuted his latest business venture on...
Why did four million Albanians take to the streets to protest a corrupt land deal engineered by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Chris Cillizza, subscribe here. News that CBS...
CBS Broadcast Center squats atop an entire city block of midtown Manhattan. It is an aircraft carrier of a building, a labyrinth of weird hallways,...
Donald Trump has trampled over the U.S. Constitution and left it so battered that it can never be repaired. He has shown no respect for the separation...
The world-famous orchestra, the Boston Pops, marked the Bicentennial in 1976 as America’s birthday should be celebrated, with music sure to rouse...
"Actor and comedian Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse after his first day of sentencing hearings in his sexual assault trial in...
It is now clear. It can now be revealed. Donald Trump has prepared a special 250th birthday gift for the United States of America. Trump has boldly...
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...