Trump’s assault on the free press reaches alarming new level
Trump is trying to destroy the one institution that can most effectively constrain his abuses of power.
By Caroline Orr - April 07, 2018Trump is trying to destroy the one institution that can most effectively constrain his abuses of power.
By Caroline Orr - April 07, 2018Scott Pruitt is drowning in scandals and even Republicans are calling for his firing — but he’s ‘dumbfounded’ by it all.
By Eric Boehlert - April 04, 2018Unlike most environmental laws, Scott Pruitt is a big fan of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Because it lets him hand money to his friends.
By Matthew Chapman - April 03, 2018Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has an appalling record of disrespecting Native Americans, and it just got much worse.
By Matthew Chapman - April 02, 2018Secretly deleting resources from the HHS website is just another sneaky way the Trump administration is undermining women’s health and Obamacare.
By Matthew Chapman - April 02, 2018Roland Martin sets the record straight.
By Tommy Christopher - April 01, 2018As America takes a tougher stance toward Russia, Trump is telling aides not to talk about it publicly, for fear of upsetting Putin.
By Caroline Orr - March 30, 2018Trump has allowed the office tasked with staffing much of the government to operate like a frat house, with drinking games, vaping, and rampant nepotism.
By Oliver Willis - March 30, 2018A new complaint from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse alleges Scott Pruitt takes his expensive government security detail on personal and family trips.
By Matthew Chapman - March 30, 2018Eight of the nine top positions in the State Department are vacant, as are 16 of the 22 assistant secretary positions and 50 ambassadorships.
By Caroline Orr - March 29, 2018EPA Director Scott Pruitt just upped the ante of his war on science.
By Caroline Orr - March 28, 2018Trump just used Twitter to fire a Cabinet secretary — the third time he’s done so this month.
By Caroline Orr - March 28, 2018The Trump administration is already facing one lawsuit, with more on the way, for trying to weaponize the 2020 census.
By Matthew Chapman - March 27, 2018So much for supporting the troops — Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Miguel Perez, who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan.
By Matthew Chapman - March 26, 2018Mick Mulvaney, the head of Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wants to reward payday lenders at the expense of veterans and low-income Americans.
By Lisa Needham - March 26, 2018Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told his staffers that he doesn’t care about diversity. His long and racist history only proves that point.
By Matthew Chapman - March 26, 2018The Trump administration’s lies about the tax scam aren’t fooling anyone — not even Fox News host Chris Wallace.
By Tommy Christopher - March 25, 2018Trump insists that ‘many’ lawyers want to represent him in the Russia case. Apparently, Joe diGenova is not one of them.
By Tommy Christopher - March 25, 2018Fox News host and Trump’s reported choice to run the Veterans Affairs Department Pete Hegseth took issue with the children speaking out against guns, and decided to talk back directly to them.
By Tommy Christopher - March 25, 2018Thousands of students are marching to demand action on school safety. The Trump administration responded by giving them the exact opposite.
By Alison R. Parker - March 24, 2018White House Counsel Don McGahn plans to leave as soon as Trump finds someone to replace him.
By Matthew Chapman - March 23, 2018Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a lot of explaining to do, but instead she’s looking for cover.
By Eric Boehlert - March 23, 2018Trump’s new national security adviser once suggested that Russian election interference could have been a false flag operation.
By Caroline Orr - March 22, 2018The Trump administration is trying to make it easy for employers to steal wages from workers.
By Matthew Chapman - March 22, 2018The Trump administration doesn’t seem to care about 146,000 Americans who will lose their jobs because of Trump’s trade war.
By Tommy Christopher - March 22, 2018Kellyanne Conway doesn’t want to be Trump’s new communications director — but she may have little choice in the matter.
By Matthew Chapman - March 21, 2018There’s a reason no previous president embraced personnel anarchy.
By Eric Boehlert - March 19, 2018Democratic Rep. Tim Walz, the highest-ranking enlisted soldier to serve in Congress, offered fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe a temporary job so McCabe could keep his pension.
By Alison R. Parker - March 17, 2018The Fox News presidency continues to take shape, as Trump is reportedly considering the network’s former co-president Bill Shine for White House communications director.
By Alison R. Parker - March 17, 2018Retired four-star Army general Barry McCaffrey is sounding the alarm on Trump’s refusal to stand up to Russia.
By Caroline Orr - March 16, 2018