Could Paul Manafort Bring Down the Whole Trump Family?
President Trump has nice things to say about Paul Manafort. “I’ve always found Paul Manafort to be a very decent man.” Manafort, says Trump, makes money all over the place.…
Wall Street Journal editorial rips Bannon for White House dysfunction
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board blamed senior White House aide Stephen Bannon for chaos in the West Wing, arguing that the top Trump ally’s loyalty to the president is…
Has James O’Keefe Accidentally Stung Himself Again?
James O’Keefe III, the conservative activist famous for undercover stings, has dedicated his life to exposing the “misconduct” of others. But he’s developed a side business in accidentally exposing his…
FBI raid on Manafort’s home shows Russia probe ramping up
FBI agents raided the residence of former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort last month, and he also has turned over hundreds of pages of documents to congressional investigators, as…
Sessions’ DOJ Switches Sides In Voting Rights Case To Back Ohio Voter Purge
In yet another reversal of a previous Justice Department stance on voting rights, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ DOJ has weighed in on a pending Supreme Court caseregarding Ohio’s practice of…
Russian bots are starting to attack the Republican Party
Russian-linked bots and trolls have caused a surge in use of the hashtag #ResignPaulRyan on Twitter over the last 48 hours, just as the Republican speaker of the House was…
Here is why you can expect the Republican Party to abandon Trump more and more as the months go by
After six months of the Donald Trump Presidency, it is clear that there are a large number of conservatives and Republicans who have repudiated everything that Donald Trump represents, creating…
The curious case of ‘Nicole Mincey,’ the Trump fan who may actually be a bot
Early Saturday morning, President Trump tweeted his gratitude to a social-media super-fan, Nicole Mincey, magnifying her praise of him to his 35 million followers. Here’s the problem: There is no…
Trump’s war on voters has a long history: Voting-rights advocates are ready to fight back
Donald Trump’s war on voting rights, like much of his behavior, is rooted in revenge. After the November election, Trump tweeted that he lost the popular vote because 3 million…
Five lies that are ricocheting around the right-wing media bubble
Spend enough time on the comments sections of the right-wing internet, and the significant number of people who hold beliefs based on completely false premises will become all too apparent.…
When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election
Richard Nixon’s telephone calls came regularly during the 1968 campaign. And H.R. Haldeman took meticulous notes, jotting down the instructions he received from the candidate. Sometimes Nixon needed to blow…
Obama’s army takes on Trump
CHICAGO — Walk into Organizing for Action’s new hipster downtown hardwood space here, and there’s no big picture of Barack Obama, just a deep blue wall with a giant “OFA”…
To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software
Although Russian hackers are reported to have tried to disrupt the November election with attacks on the voting systems of 39 states, the consensus of the intelligence community is that…
‘The fish is rotting from the head’ for the second time in Russian history, Eidman says
“A fish begins to rot from the head,” Russians say, “and society descends into insanity following its dictator. His personal paranoia become that of society and propaganda infects the entire…
The Observer view on Donald Trump’s unfitness for office
The sense of things falling apart in Washington is palpable – and a matter of growing, serious international concern. Donald Trump’s latest asinine act of gesture politics, the forced resignation…
The Kremlin is done betting on Trump and planning how to strike back against U.S. sanctions
MOSCOW — Your geopolitical nemesis is suffering a political meltdown and says you’re partly to blame. Angry legislators have slapped you with new sanctions, which their president says he will…
Top hacker conference to target voting machines
Hackers will target American voting machines—as a public service, to prove how vulnerable they are. When over 25,000 of them descend on Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas at the end…