Favorite Donald Trump walks on stage to speak at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference, on Aug. 26, 2024, in Detroit. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP Over the last few years, as it grew increasingly likely that Donald Trump would mount a third campaign for the White House, leading press critics and…
Favorite Donald Trump arrives at his Mar-a Lago estate on Aug. 8, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images To understand the rise of Donald Trump, you don’t need to go to a diner in the Midwest or read “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance’s memoir. You just need to know these basic facts: In…
Favorite People lay carnations on a memorial for Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash, near the PMC Wagner Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Aug. 24, 2023. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images For two months after Yevgeny Prigozhin led a brief mutiny that threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power, the mercenary…
Favorite Jeffrey Clark, then assistant attorney general for the environment and natural resources division at the U.S. Department of Justice, speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2020. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP The man with no pants is the unnamed star of Donald Trump’s latest indictment. Jeffrey Clark was an obscure government…
Favorite Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally on July 7, 2023, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP Only a career criminal finds himself facing four indictments in four different jurisdictions at the same time. That level of legal exposure is generally reserved for those who engage in crime sprees of historic proportions.…
Favorite Head of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves the Southern Military District headquarters on June 24, 2023, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Photo: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Yevgeny Prigozhin is a dead man walking. But so is Vladimir Putin. Most Read Kyrsten Sinema Moves to Slash Pilot Training After Taking Airline Cash Daniel Boguslaw LexisNexis…
Favorite Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, addresses his units withdrawing from Bakhmut, the city captured from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, on May 25, 2023. Photo: UPI/Alamy Live News Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a full-scale coup attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin late Friday and early Saturday morning, as his mercenaries took control…
Favorite Former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump has nothing in common with Reality Winner. He also has nothing in common with Terry Albury or Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards. Winner, Albury, and Edwards each performed a public service…
Favorite Walt Nauta, aid to former President Donald Trump, follows Trump carrying clothing as they board his airplane at Palm Beach International Airport on March 13, 2023. Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images In every Trump scandal, there is a Trump lackey. Every one of them has served as a proxy for the…
Favorite Sen. Frank Church during a session of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the CIA in 1975. Photo: Bettmann Archive In one of their very first steps since taking over the House of Representatives, House Republicans have created a special new panel to launch wide-ranging investigations into what they allege are the ways in which…
