Media reporting, including my own, often relies on anonymous sourcing. The guarantee of confidentiality is sometimes the only way to gain inside information. But not this time — not with Fox News. The groundbreaking Dominion v. Fox lawsuit forced thousands of pages of texts and emails into the public domain. …
Read More »Rudy Tells Trump He'll Go Down With the Ship
Rudy Giuliani is bleeding cash, losing attorneys, racking up lawsuits against him, facing criminal charges, and alienating longtime friends and Republican Party stalwarts. And yet, as his life comes apart around him, Giuliani is still promising to go down with the Donald Trump-sized ship, sources familiar with the matter tell …
Read More »Trump and His Lawyers Dare N.Y. Judge to Throw Him in Jail
As Donald Trump prepared to take the stand in the civil fraud trial that could destroy his business empire, the ex-president and his attorneys settled on a strategy built on spite and unbridled antagonism. According to two sources familiar with the matter and another person briefed on Team Trump’s legal …
Read More »'Genocide Joe': Massive D.C. Cease-Fire Protest Directs Its Rage at Biden
It was only 60 degrees in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, but everyone packed into Freedom Plaza was sweating. The sun glanced off the silver tips of flagpoles and bright white protest signs and so many glossy photographs showing bombed-out buildings turned to rubble and bloodied bodies of children killed in …
Read More »Young Activists to Biden: Change Course on Gaza — or Lose in 2024
Biden is going to blow it with young voters if he doesn’t change course. That’s the message leaders of several groups that rallied those voters to support Biden in 2020 are sending as the president continues his wholesale support of the Israeli government’s continued assault on Gaza. These leaders represent …
Read More »Is Tommy Tuberville the Most Ignorant Man in D.C.?
T ommy Tuberville’s Republican colleagues had finally had it with him. For months, the Alabama senator and former college football coach has blocked the confirmation of hundreds of senior military officers because he’s mad about a Pentagon policy that ensures soldiers have abortion access. The group of anti-abortion Republicans had …
Read More »No, Palestinians Are Not Faking the Devastation in Gaza
More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed since Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, triggering a still-ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. The death toll, provided by Palestinian health authorities, does not include the countless injured in the attacks, and almost half of the dead and wounded are …
Read More »Verified Hate Speech Accounts Are Pivoting to Palestine for Clout and Cash
The weekslong Israeli assault on Gaza in response to a deadly surprise attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 has already cost thousands of lives, and the bloodshed will only continue as a ground invasion gets underway. But thousands of miles distant, paid clout-chasers on X, formerly Twitter, are using …
Read More »Trump's Demands for Extreme Loyalty Are Starting to Backfire
Throughout the criminal investigations of Donald Trump, the former president has expected his co-defendants, alleged co-conspirators, and potential witnesses for the prosecution to stay fiercely loyal to him. This has included — according to people who’ve discussed the matter with him — his belief that some of his former lieutenants …
Read More »House Speaker Mike Johnson's Long Crusade Against Birth Control
At the Louisiana Right to Life Forum on Nov. 15, 2013, Mike Johnson — still lawyer, and not yet a public official —spoke about his efforts challenging the Department of Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate, a provision of the Affordable Care Act that required employers to provide birth control …
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