A Guide to Pending Civil and Criminal Cases Against Trump
Here’s the current landscape of active cases against the Trump family as of November, 2019, broken down by category.
Category: Corruption
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Fight Over Automatic Tax Returns
We can’t have nice things, because we haven’t gotten serious about financial transparency and campaign finance reform.
So, You Wanna Be an Ambassador…
As in so many other areas, Trump’s actions are horrifying not because they are unique, but rather for their brazenness.
What the Bidens Did and Didn’t Do In Ukraine
What the Bidens did and didn’t do in Ukraine is dull, complex, entirely legal, but indicative of the long rot in our democracy. As a result, you’ll never hear it explained on TV.
This is Why You Punch a Bully
Always punch a bully, and keep whaling on him until someone comes to pull you off.
Why Senior Democrats Love Donald Trump
For tenured Democrats, the folks who survived the party’s contraction and prospered over the past few decades, the Trump Era is a golden age of wine and roses, in which their jobs have never been easier or more secure. They are in no hurry to see it end.
Nancy Isn’t Coming to the Rescue
Democrats aren’t riding to the rescue, because their leaders see nothing that needs saving.
One Nation Under the Hustle: Right Wing Financial Scams, Ranked
There’s always been an odor of scammyness around movement conservatism but here at its end, the sheer breadth of corrupt innovation spreading across the rotting hulk of the GOP is so spectacular as to inspire wonder. What could once be dismissed as the amusing hijinks of a few hucksters has grown into a dangerous culture of corruption that threatens democracy itself.
An Open Letter to Representative Sean Casten
Money tells the truth when all around us are lying. Money explains why the effort you’ve poured into legislative priorities has produced so little return. And nothing will paint a more honest picture of the influence of money on our entire political system than a few rays of sunlight falling on the Trump businesses.