Brett Kavanaugh’s real crime? He’s a white man
If you are obsessing over someone’s skin colour, you are probably a little bit racist
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Monday
Cory Booker is his own worst enemy
The ambitious New Jersey senator is too desperate to be liked
Saturday
How Donald Trump can win again
It’s simple: he needs to rediscover his appeal to workers
Friday
McCarthyist? The Democrats’ treatment of Brett Kavanaugh is way worse than that
As Lindsey Graham noted, Republicans have never done to Democratic nominees for the Supreme Court what the Democrats have routinely done to Republicans
Thursday
Seeing red: where did all the deficit-cutting Republicans go?
None of the usual arguments made to justify deficit spending apply
The Kavanaugh hearings are the hottest ticket in Tinseltown
Supreme Court hearings are so in this fall…
Democrat blood lust has energised Republicans ahead of the midterms
Anyone can see the Kavanaugh slanders for what they are: brass-knuckled, any weapon at hand, dirty dealing
Wednesday
Donald Trump’s UN press conference was frenetic, yet friendly
A rollicking and rambling affair, complete with colour commentary from Trump, as he sought to subvert the format
Tuesday
Grassley posts a picture of corn — but no-one will lend an ear
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee can get no love on Instagram
The Kremlin, a British PR man, and a ‘chickensh*t’ meeting in Trump Tower
Pop Stars, Pageants & Presidents: How An Email Trumped My Life – Rob Goldstone
The Trump economy, like Obama’s, is a big, fat, ugly bubble
If the Democratic party were smart, or genuine, they would be going after the lies underlying today’s boom
Monday
Rod Rosenstein survives another day in Crazytown
The Deputy Attorney General has become the bête noire of House Republicans and Trump’s inner circle is clearly thirsting to oust him
Ronan Farrow, chief inspector of the sex police
Is there nothing Senate Democrats won’t stoop to?
Springtime for Woodward
Bob Woodward, in his own peculiar way, has used Trump as a vehicle to solidify establishment maxims
The pro-Kavanaugh pundits who make him look guilty
What won’t help Brett Kavanaugh are the kinds of arguments that many right-leaning commentators have made over the past week in response to Ford’s claims
Saturday
Friday
When did the conservative moral outrage machine get so quiet?
The Evangelicals who were triggered senseless by the Monica Lewinsky affair have been silent about Trump’s transgressions
Is Rod Rosenstein proof that Trump is right to be paranoid?
After the New York Times story, Trump is surely weighing a purge of the Justice Department
Thursday
Christine Blasey Ford has mastered the art of the deal
Ford looks reasonable. It appears that she’s only asking for a few more days to prepare
Tuesday
Thanks to Stormy Daniels, Trump’s problems are, well, mushrooming
Stormy Daniels vividly describes her sexual encounter with the President in her new book
