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Top Five Absurd Republican Reactions to Trump’s Guilty Verdict
After Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts in his hush-money trial Thursday, Republicans threw a fit. Old criticisms of Trump were immediately forgotten, and full-throated defenses...
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Plans an Upgrade
In a statement of its commitment to artists and to downtown, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is planning to buy the East Seventh Street building it occupies...
Susan Collins’s Really Dumb Trump Defense Reveals the GOP’s Sickness
He also cites “record levels of depression and mental illness, dispirited young people, soaring suicide rates, increasing numbers of angry and alienated young males, an increase in senseless violence,...
Ivanka Trump Finally Breaks Silence After Dad Becomes Convicted Felon
Ivanka Trump offered just four words in support of her freshly convicted felon father on Thursday, publishing to her Instagram stories a photo of herself as a child sitting...
Guilty: Is Trumpism a Movement or a Cult?
Donald Trump is now a felon, busted for and convicted of stealing the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton and the American people. Our criminal justice system has worked, and...
Convicted Felon Trump’s Idiot Lawyer Doubles Down on Absurd Defense
Donald Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche still believes in his failed legal strategy to defend the former president—even though he’ll readily admit that the plan did not cover all the...
Inflation Remains Steady, With Signs of Further Cooling
Inflation remained essentially flat in April while showing signs of progress, the Commerce Department reported Friday, in a closely watched measure that will guide the Federal Reserve in any...
Fixing Social Security Is an Election Issue Nobody Talks About
Millions of Americans worry about Social Security — whether they will get the full retirement paychecks promised to them in years to come. And many younger people believe —...
Trump Media Stock Falls After Guilty Verdict
Shares of Trump Media tumbled after former President Donald J. Trump, the company’s largest investor and primary user of its Truth Social platform, was found guilty of 34 felony...
Trump’s Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility
True, the hush-money affair is less serious than Trump’s alleged crimes related to the insurrection and the theft of national security documents. But it shouldn’t be hard to make...
How Claudia Sheinbaum Could Change Mexico
“It’s cheaper and more efficient to implement these policies through state-owned companies,” Romero told me. “We believe that state-owned companies have a longer-term horizon that can sustain these kinds...
Samuel Alito Knew Exactly What That Upside-Down American Flag Meant
As for the Appeal to Heaven flag, also known as the Pine Tree flag, Alito again attributed the decision solely to his wife. “My wife is fond of flying...