Politics

Excerpted from Hate Inc., which can be found in serial form at Taibbi.substack.com. Sixteen years ago this week, the United States invaded Iraq. We went in on an unconvincing excuse, articulated by George W. Bush in a speech days before invasion: “Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no …

Paul Manafort’s legal team is asking for leniency for President Trump’s former campaign manager and former political consultant to Ukrainian oligarchs with a penchant for ostrich leather. In a sentencing memo filed in federal court Monday, Manafort’s legal team did not dispute his guilt — on a raft of crimes …

Every few months or so, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon comes out of his dark lair to impart his genius takes on the status of the Trump administration and the political landscape. And the masses, including the media, are here to gobble it up. Bannon, like all villains …

Earlier this month, someone in the White House leaked months worth of President Trump’s private daily schedules. They confirmed the obvious: Trump is lazy as hell, with unstructured “Executive Time” making up around 60 percent of his workday over the past three months. According to Axios, which obtained the schedules, …

Before a gathered crowd of supporters in Lawrence, Mass., Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced her candidacy for president, framing her campaign as a “fight of our lives.” “This is the fight of our lives. The fight to build an America where dreams are possible, an America that works for everyone,” …

President Donald Trump has once again lost the support of conservative commentator Ann Coulter after he agreed to reopen the government temporarily without getting funding for his border wall. After Trump announced the news on Friday, Coulter tweeted what a wimp Trump was. Later that night, she was interviewed by …

Update: The special counsel’s office has released a statement in response to Buzzfeed’s report: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” wrote special counsel spokesperson Peter Carr. Original text …

The Department of Homeland Security may have separated “thousands” more children from their families than previously reported, according to a new report conducted by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services.“More children” children were separated “over a longer period of time” than previously believed, Ann Maxwell, …

President Trump on Tuesday night addressed the nation from the Oval Office for the first time since assuming the presidency two years ago this month. The topic was border security, particularly the president’s belief that the only way to achieve it is through the construction of a literal wall separating …

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the youngest woman elected to the House of Representatives, has been the target of several conservative smear campaigns — including attacks on her pro-working-class agenda (she dared to grow up in a single-story house!) to “Sandy,” her suspiciously Anglophone teenage nickname. (To think a Puerto Rican …