Politics
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The White House Knew That Rob Porter Had Allegedly Assaulted His Ex-Wives and Kept Him Around Anyway: Report
The White House has become an endless, vast hole of shame and embarrassment. Just when you think that the allegations coming from one of the most revered and respected adobes worldwide can’t get any worse, the entire White House—staff, administration, housekeeping—is like, “Hold my folders.” On Wednesday the White House was rocked by allegations that…
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These Polls Ain’t Loyal: Why the Generic Congressional Ballot Is the Worst Predictor in American Politics
Nothing amuses me more as a political scientist than people who just don’t trust polls. The skepticism is usually brought on by incredulity about some type of polling analysis—“There’s no way black districts voted more Republican in 2016 than in 2012”—which is usually followed by some nonscientific justification for not believing the results. Well, no…
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White Supremacy Roundup: 4 Stories That Show How Institutional Racism Works
When the Ku Klux Klan sets a cross on fire, the fact that a few snuff-chewing Caucasian troglodytes have come together to celebrate their low-IQ ideology is as inconsequential as the fact that they are contributing to global warming and deforestation. It has always been about the hoods. The idea that the cowardice of teachers,…
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Trump’s Lawyers Tell Him to Stand Down on Mueller All-Access Interview; Will He Listen?
When you have a client who is known for going off-script even when that script is written as simply as a Little Golden Book, it is in the best interests of both you and your client to caution him against doing an interview in which he could possibly perjure or incriminate himself because he is…
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Trump Wants a Military Parade Because Fascism Isn’t Coming to America Fast Enough
Your president is nothing if not a gigantic stunt queen who revels in the act of proving that his figurative penis is bigger than everyone else’s. I say “figurative” because we all know that if the real one were big, we wouldn’t have to constantly worry about getting nuked by North Korea because Donald Trump…
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Steve Bannon Dodges a House Intelligence Committee Interrogation Again
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon once again avoided testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, forcing the panel to give him another week to comply with a subpoena to appear. A source told CNN Monday that Bannon knew prior to Tuesday’s deadline that he would not be showing up to give testimony…
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After Making History, New Orleans’ 1st Female Mayor, LaToya Cantrell, Is Ready to Shape the City’s Future
New Orleans Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell didn’t set out to make history. But as the city celebrates its 300th anniversary this year, she, too, will become part of its story as its first female mayor. For nearly 30 years, the Xavier University grad has been making New Orleans her home and the people her community. It’s…
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Trump Uses Death of NFL Player to Rant Against Immigrants, Ask for Border Wall
If we’re being honest, you have to admire the way the juicy-booty hate-monger throwing back Diet Cokes in the Oval Office like Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 192 always finds a way to twist any tragedy into a reason to validate his racism. According to Donald Trump, the opioid crisis, most crimes and even…
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth Isn’t Here to Clap for ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’
What you’re not going to do is tell Iraq War vet and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) what is and isn’t treason. The Black Hawk-helicopter pilot who lost both legs during her service took exception to President Donald Trump’s comments Monday that Democrats who didn’t clap for him during his State of the Union address…