Politics

If there’s one thing that binds the Trump universe together, it’s the oppressive stench of shady activity. This applies to those closest to the president, as well those orbiting him from a distance, like Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), a back-bench lawmaker who in February 2016 became the first member of …

Back in 2016 – after Justice Antonin Scalia died and Sen. Mitch McConnell successfully blocked hearings for his replacement –veteran Newsweek reporter David A. Kaplan set out to understand how the Supreme Court became so powerful and so polarized that control of a single seat could end up determining everything …

Fresh off his trip to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, President Trump is now set to sit down with his original authoritarian BFF, Vladimir Putin. Despite their flirtations, Trump has yet to travel for an official summit with the Russian president since taking office. This week, National Security …

Donald Trump has exhibited authoritarian impulses since the early days of his campaign. But the president’s recent meeting with Kim Jong-un seems to have inspired him to throw around language and ideas that would turn America into a dictatorship.Trump gushed about the North Korean leader following their meeting in Singapore, …

Two weeks after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, President Trump finally took leave of the golf course and visited the devastated U.S. territory. While hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans were suffering in darkness, Trump lobbed rolls of paper towels at people and bragged about the disaster relief effort. …

Democrats have published a response to the House Intelligence Committee report on the Trump/Russia nexus, released Friday by the committee’s Republican majority. The minority report offers new details – and unanswered questions – about the role of the NRA as a conduit between Russia and the Trump campaign, raising fresh …

On Monday night in New York City, the lounge at the Regency bar hummed with a buzz native to the Upper East Side – guests tipping big on $20 vodka sodas, chomping down on cajun nuts, pretzels, and popcorn. A man who appeared to be in his early-20s returned from …

“Our examination…uncovered no evidence that fracking can be practiced in a manner that does not threaten human health,” states a blistering 266-page report released today by Concerned Health Professionals of New York and the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group, Physicians for Social Responsibility. Drawing on news investigations, government assessments and more …

It’s easy to call acts of horror “evil.” It’s comforting to ascribe an external, unknowable motive to events so terrible we can’t imagine a motivation. The human mind is incapable of imagining what would drive a man to haul an arsenal of high-powered weapons into a hotel room, knock out …

Barack and Michelle Obama appeared at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. to witness the unveiling of their official presidential portraits, the New York Times reports. President Obama’s likeness, set against against a wall of bright green leaves and small flowers, was captured by Kehinde Wiley. The 41-year-old …