Politics

Days after likening himself to Elvis in front of a crowd of supporters in Tupelo, Mississippi, President Trump has described his pre-election business dealings with Russia as “very cool” in an effort to absolve himself on any indiscretion. “Oh, I get it!” the president tweeted sarcastically early Friday morning. “I …

When I first heard Donald Trump on the campaign trail, I thought, “What a joke!” When I last heard Donald Trump on the campaign trail, I thought, “How long will it take for my children to learn Icelandic?” I underestimated Donald Trump once. I’ll never do it again. Don’t think …

Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, had virtually no experience working with displaced populations before the Trump administration put him in charge of the agency responsible for helping tens of thousands of refugees settle in the U.S. every year, not to mentionthe care of the more than …

Incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) fended off a surprisingly fierce challenge in Tuesday’s midterm election, defeating progressive El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) in a contest that captured the imagination of Democrats around the country. Polls favored the sitting senator throughout the race, but tightened over the last few days, …

They say politics make strange bedfellows, but apparently politics also play a role in what and who we fantasize about in bed. Justin Lehmiller, a research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, wrote a piece forPoliticociting data from “the largest and most comprehensive survey of sexual fantasies ever conducted in the …

The NRA appears to be at a loss for content. The organization has turned to covering an array of cultural issues that have nothing to do with guns. On Friday, it set a bizarre new low when Dana Loesch used the “Final Cut” segment of her hour-long show Relentless to …

On Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) asked Brett Kavanaugh whether or not his views on Roe v. Wade had changed since his time working in the George W. Bush White House. The D.C. Circuit judge and President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee responded by saying he didn’t know what she …

Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, is a conservative activist on gun issues, and, in particular, on AR-15s. His nomination to the nation’s highest court represents payback to the NRA, a group that spent more than $30 million to help install Trump in …

President Trump’s manic Twitter dysentery over the weekend contained more than a few nuggets that would have shamed, embarrassed or mortified normal presidents in a normal era. Two big, dumb ideas emerged from Trumpworld in the last few days — one of which placed the president’s own son (and the …

In May 2017, Ryan Zinke, the 52nd United States secretary of the Interior, traveled to Utah on a four-day fact-finding mission. A Montana native and former Navy SEAL, Zinke carries himself with the sort of distinctly American brand of swagger that Donald Trump, who favors Cabinet picks “out of central …