Updated | Friday, 5:42 p.m. Given that Hillary Clinton’s Senate vote, on October 11, 2002, to authorize the invasion of Iraq might have been what cost her the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2008, it was remarkable that the… Read More ›
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Donald Trump Thinks He Heard Vladimir Putin Call Barack Obama “the N-Word.” He Didn’t.
Donald Trump’s mind wanders when he speaks. His campaign speeches are marked by frequent digressions into subjects as tangential to his qualifications for running the country as the ineffectiveness of hairspray in the post-aerosol era. So it was perhaps no surprise… Read More ›
Donald Trump’s Long Rant Thrilled David Duke, But Alienated Many Others
Updated | 12:28 p.m. As Donald Trump shouted for 76 minutes on Thursday night about how horrible everything is in the dystopian fiction he’s confused for America, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan found himself nodding along… Read More ›
Donald Trump Crams Two Errors Into One Statement on Turkey
In an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday, after suggesting that he might not defend another member of the NATO alliance in the event of a Russian attack, Donald Trump was asked if he was paying close attention… Read More ›
Ted Cruz Booed and Heckled for Refusing to Endorse Donald Trump
Last Updated | Thursday, 5:18 p.m. In a remarkable show of disunity at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Sen. Ted Cruz was booed and heckled by many delegates on Wednesday night as it became clear that he had no… Read More ›
Melania Trump Remarks on Values Plagiarized From Michelle Obama
Last Updated | 3:06 p.m. A central portion of Melania Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention on Monday night, about the core values her parents instilled in her and her sister as children, seems to have been lifted almost… Read More ›
Newt Gingrich Pals Around With Terrorists Saddam Hussein Once Armed
Newt Gingrich, who is being vetted to be Donald Trump’s running mate and appeared with the candidate in Cincinnati on Wednesday, left the campaign trail this weekend for an unusual reason. The former Speaker of the House had to fly… Read More ›
For Hillary Clinton’s Campaign, “Extremely Careless” Is a Soundbite to Celebrate
When Hillary Clinton first acknowledged in March 2015 that she had indeed used a private email account — and her own server — to conduct official government business as secretary of state, it would have been hard to imagine that her… Read More ›
Why the Brexit Campaign Is Obsessed With Nazis and Hates Facts
In the last, frantic days of campaigning before Britons vote in a referendum on Thursday to decide if they will remain in the European Union or leave, there seem to be Nazis everywhere — at least, that is, in the… Read More ›
Far-Right Britain First Party Tries to Avoid Blame for Lawmaker’s Assassination
One day after a British lawmaker, Jo Cox, was assassinated by a constituent with a history of mental illness and support for white nationalist groups, who reportedly shouted “Britain First!” during the attack, the leaders of a fringe political party with… Read More ›