In 1787, during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, young James Madison, the father of that document, argued strongly that a president who flagrantly breaches the public trust should be targeted for impeachment. Madison listed some dire scenarios: A president...
Hey, remember what Donald Trump said back in June – it’s OK if you don’t; it’s impossible to keep up – when he was asked by ABC News whether he’d accept foreign dirt on Democratic rivals who seek to oust him in 2020? He said that absolutely, he’d be all ears: “I think...
What we witnessed this week, when MAGA acolyte Corey Lewandowski stonewalled Congress with a fake claim of “executive privilege,” was Donald Trump’s latest quest to sabotage a co-equal branch of government that’s constitutionally tasked with holding a president...
If Donald Trump were to wield his Sharpie and draw a feral Chihuahua, it would look like Corey Lewandowski. The former MAGA campaign manager – “a perfect Trump character…a pathological liar,” according to Republican strategist Stuart Stevens – predictably wrecked...
Have you heard that Elizabeth Warren has an ambitious plan – a surefire popular plan – to boost Social Security payments by roughly $200 a month? Amazingly, the details she unveiled last Thursday morning never came up, not even once, in the Democratic debate on...