In the latest episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper talk with Shahid Buttar, the San Francisco attorney and grassroots-organizer campaigning to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Buttar’s campaign speaks to a growing schism within the Democratic party between left-wing voices and more traditional party members. On …
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Beto O’Rourke is dropping out of the presidential race, a surprising move from the former U.S. Senate candidate from Texas who was once considered among the frontrunners to land the Democratic nomination. “Our campaign has always been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly, and acting decisively,” O’Rourke wrote on Twitter. “In …
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The impeachment inquiry launched last month by Democrats in the House of Representatives has already turned up a trove of evidence suggesting the Trump administration offered a quid pro quo to Ukraine. No witness laid it out with more clarity than U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor did last week. …
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WASHINGTON —Rudy Giuliani‘s scheme to open a shadowy back channel with the new Ukrainian government in order to damage Joe Biden was so ham-handed that even John Bolton, the mustachioed former national security adviser to President Trump, reportedly called it a “drug deal” and Giuliani himself “a hand grenade who’s …
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The Trump campaign is indignantthat it is being expected to help cover the cost of extra security for a rally planned in Minneapolis Thursday. According to the campaign, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is “attempting to extort President Trump’s re-election campaign by conjuring up a phony and outlandish bill for security.” …
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Rudy Giuliani has consulted with Paul Manafort “several times” in recent months as he quests to smear Joe Biden and boost a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine and Democrats — not Russia — were the ones who did the real malfeasance ahead of the 2016 election, TheWashington Post reported on …
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WASHINGTON — In his October 1936 address at Madison Square Garden to announce the Second New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt took aim at the forces of “organized money” fighting his populist agenda. The “old enemies of peace,” he called them, singling out business monopolies, financial speculators, out-of-control banking, and war …
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WASHINGTON — In the past year, political campaigns, parties, and pro-democracy groups around the world have faced more than 800 cyberattacks, according to new data provided to Rolling Stone by tech giant Microsoft. “The threat is real and it’s not stopping,” Tom Burt, a vice president of customer security and …
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WASHINGTON — A Trump administration official and friend of the Trump family promoted a conspiracy theory about the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and friend to the powerful who was in jail facing charges of federal sex trafficking. Lynne Patton, who works at the Department of Housing …
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As with practically every Sunday morning, following a multitude of hateful and racist statements, the president of the United States sent out one of his surrogates to lie to the American people and tell them that either they can’t comprehend correctly what the president meant or that the “fake news” …
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