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CNN’s fascinating series ‘The Windsors’ confirms why the dysfunctional royal family still rules
“The Windsors: Inside The Royal Dynasty” knows damn well you don’t want to wait 100 years to get to Meghan. The Duchess of Sussex —…
Is being a billionaire a disqualifier for office?
As predicted in this space back in December, phase one of the Bloomberg 2020 media coronation is well underway. The former Mayor of New York…
Your tax dollars at work: Trump admin’s new policies more alarming than president’s vengeance campaign against perceived enemies
So, while Donald Trump has been parading his vengeance campaign against perceived enemies, what’s his actual government been doing? Inquiring skeptics want to know. Mostly,…
Jeffrey Epstein case threatens to drag Virgin Islands elite into the muck. Will it matter?
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands — The U.S. Virgin Islands opened up a new and explosive front in the battle over Jeffery Epstein’s $600 million…
Here’s how Democrats can reclaim rural voters from Trump in 2020
One of the most dominant facets of conventional wisdom in American politics is that rural America is solidly and self-evidently conservative and Republican, so it’s…
Relentless corruption and sheer madness are Donald Trump’s super powers
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried –…
Jared Kushner gives birth to the travesty of the century
After three years in office, one can hardly be surprised at what Trump is capable of saying, doing, or scheming. In the middle of his…
Senate Republicans are implicated in Trump’s authoritarian organized crime outfit
Authoritarian governments almost always operate in a style that resembles organized crime outfits. Despite their ostentatious populism, such regimes exist to enrich thuggish rulers and…
Can we stop tiptoeing around the fact that Trump is behaving like a dictator?
There will come a time when we look back on this week as the moment in our history when we finally understood that we have…
Columnist explains why Barr’s defense of his corruption is actually so ‘damning’ — and what Democrats should do now
Attorney General Bill Barr has been attempting to do some damage control in response to the Roger Stone scandal, which emerged after the top Department…
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