Politics
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Deuces! Paul Ryan Calls It Quits, and Republicans Just Lost the House
There are times in your professional life when you look around, see what’s going on in your company or office, recognize that you’ve done your best, made some lasting positive change and peacefully decide it’s time to go. Then there’s House Speaker Paul Ryan. He’s the guy who looked around his office, saw people screaming…
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Donald Trump Is the Great Value Frank Underwood; Michael Cohen Is His Doug Stamper
Riddle me this: Why would the FBI be searching the home, office and hotel room of Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen for all the records related to the infamous Access Hollywood tape on which Trump was heard basically admitting that he thinks it’s OK to sexually assault women? And why, as reported by the New…
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Bong-Jour: John Boehner Gets Brand-New, Now Supports Cannabis
File this under “Stories I never thought I’d be writing in my journalism career.” Former House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, was previously opposed to any and all types of marijuana reform when he served in the U.S. Congress. He vocally opposed marijuana legalization, having said in 2011 that he was “unalterably opposed”…
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Meet the White Nationalist Most Likely to Take Over for Paul Ryan Now That Ryan Is Retiring
On Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced that he would not be seeking re-election and would retire at the end of his term in 2019. This has huge national implications, of course: The GOP will have lost a major fundraiser and party leader, Republicans and Democrats see Ryan’s announcement as another sign that Democrats…
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President Signs Executive Order Mandating That Poor People Work or Lose ‘Welfare’
Without much fanfare (totally apropos, given what’s been happening in the world of the White House in the last 72 hours), President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will force recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to find work or lose their assistance. Trump quietly signed the…
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Trump Is Not in Bed With Russia and He Proves It by Sending Mean Tweets!
At this point, if you aren’t laughing at the Trump administration, then you really are missing the fun in all of this. As the investigation into Donald Trump’s reported ties to Russia, and specifically Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election that gave Trump the White House, continued, Trump took to Twitter to continue this overly…
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Eau de Bull, Again: Good Ole Boys Have ‘No Concerns About Anything Inappropriate’ in Environmental-Racism Case
Last year I wrote about an environmental-racism conspiracy in which a corrupt black congressman implicated Jeffrey Wood, the man now overseeing the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, or ENRD. I’m back to report that this story has aged like wine: It’s gotten more complex, mightily more interesting and warrants an incredulous second taste…
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NAN Convention Arrives Just as Civil Rights Progress Is Taking Its Biggest Hit in Decades
Stevante Clark clung to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s neck as Sharpton delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Stevante’s brother, Stephon, who was gunned down by Sacramento, Calif., police officers on March 18. At one point during the service, Stevante took the mic from California NAACP President Alice Huffman and asked the audience if they…
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Kellyanne Conway, Is This Your Husband? If So, You Need to Get Him Off Twitter ’Cause He’s Destroying Your Boss
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway has a husband. Her husband’s name is George. George is an Ivy League-educated attorney. There is a Twitter user named “George Conway” who has a sketch avatar of Kellyanne’s husband’s face. This George Conway has over 20,000 followers on Twitter, and on a daily basis he trolls the White…
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Eric B. Is President, but He Wants Miranda From Sex and the City to Be New York’s Next Governor
There are a few things that I have come to expect when going to an old-school hip-hop concert. Lots and lots of weed, drunk gentrifiers unironically wearing throwback Kangols and Adidas tracksuits, and most importantly—no matter what time is posted on the ticket—the show starting almost two hours late. These three experiences pretty much encapsulate…