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.
What’s in Trump’s Tax Returns
All we’ll see at first in the returns is the names of these shells. But once we have the names, we can start to assemble the relationships. And when that map of relationships is in the open, further inquiries into those layers of companies can fill out the rest of the picture.