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New White House Communications Director Lashed Out At Trump In 2015 For Being "Another Hack Politician"

Sean Spicer's Six-Month-Long Road to Resignation
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Will The Federal Government Make It Illegal To Protest Israel?
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Let's Not Mirror Trump

By Connie Schultz
The Lights Are Going Down On The Sean Spicer Show. Here’s The Mess He Leaves Behind

By Matt Gertz
When 'Do No Harm' Still Hurts: Trump's Plan To Renegotiate NAFTA Fails American Workers

By Leo Gerard
Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is 'Collapsing'

By Nafeez Ahmed

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Deeply Unpopular, DeVos and ALEC In Lockstep In Trying To Destroy Public Education
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ speech to the American Legislative Exchange Council met with protests before she’d even arrived in Denver. But teachers and activists aren’t the only ones objecting to the extreme, anti-public education agenda DeVos shares with ALEC.
By Jennifer Berkshire

Crucial Court Case Could Spell Doom For Ethnic Studies In Public Schools
Throughout elementary school and middle school, Leo Herrera received a different kind of social studies curriculum. In addition to learning the basics of U.S. history—the discovery of America, the founding fathers, the Revolutionary War—Herrera learned about prominent Latin American activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and indigenous groups like the Maya and the Aztec Empire.
By Celisa Calacal

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Why Donald Trump, Jr. Should Release More Emails

By Joe Conason

Study: How Breitbart Media's Disinformation Created The Paranoid, Fact-Averse Nation That Elected Trump
Right-wing media evolved into a hall of mirrors in 2016, when Breitbart displaced Fox News as the key agenda-setting and attack-leading epicenter of a disinformation-filled, paranoid ecosystem promoting Donald Trump and his pro-white America agenda.
By Steven Rosenfeld
NY Times Plays Softball With Trump On Health Care
There was certainly a need for such an interrogation. The interview came just days after the Senate health care bill collapsed because conservative and more moderate Republicans were unable to reach agreement on the legislation’s contours.
By Matt Gertz
7 Pundits Who Spread The Myth Of Trump's Working-Class Voter Base
Following Donald Trump’s ascent to the U.S. presidency, both liberal and conservative pundits and commentators have circulated a dangerous myth that the white working-class propelled Trump to the White House.
By Lauren Kaori Gurley
5 Reasons Trump Is A Health Calamity Waiting To Happen
No reasonable person (which automatically rules out his base) sees Donald Trump as a paragon of good health. The oldest person to enter the presidency, Trump maintains a lifestyle conspicuously absent of practices that might be labeled “health minded.”
By Kali Holloway
Not Enough Exercise, Too Much: Americans Polarized Here, Too
Later in mid-air, I'm reading about a life-threatening condition that has been sending fitness fanatics to the hospital. Rhabdomyolysis causes horrible pain, turns the urine brown and threatens the kidneys. Cases are rare but seen in exercisers engaged in killer workouts, notably brutal Spinning sessions (stationary bicycle drills).
By Froma Harrop
Right Wing Media Target SPLC As Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups Come Under Fire
Following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ controversial speaking engagement at an event hosted by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), right-wing media figures lashed out at ABC and NBC News for accurately reporting that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has designated ADF as an anti-LGBTQ hate group.
By Brennan Suen & Erin Fitzgerald

Money

Hedge Funds, Oil, Fossil Fuels And Pharma Gave Money To The GOP
During the first half of the year in state legislatures, drug companies have fought bills to reduce medicine prices; the financial industry has tried to stop legislation to end special state tax breaks; and oil and gas firms have pushed to block environmental regulations.
By David Sirota
Did Trump Get A Big Tax Refund After 2005?
The pressure is growing to force President Trump to turn over his tax returns. The other day, for example, 200 Congressmen filed a suit in federal court, arguing that voters and lawmakers have a right to know whether Trump’s businesses are violating the Constitution’s emolument clause, which bars the president from accepting payments from foreign countries.
By Allan Sloan
Much Wealth As Half The World's Population
While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the poorest five deciles of the world population own about $410 billion in total wealth.
By Paul Buchheit

Health

Danziger: Thanks, Obama
By Jeff Danziger
Open Burns, Ill Winds
hortly after dawn most weekdays, a warning siren rips across the flat, swift water of the New River running alongside the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. Red lights warning away boaters and fishermen flash from the plant, the nation’s largest supplier of propellant for artillery and the source of explosives for almost every American bullet fired overseas.
By Abrahm Lustgarten
NY Times Plays Softball With Trump On Health Care
There was certainly a need for such an interrogation. The interview came just days after the Senate health care bill collapsed because conservative and more moderate Republicans were unable to reach agreement on the legislation’s contours.
By Matt Gertz

Lifestyle

#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Books The Infamous Presidential Suite At Moscow Ritz-Carlton
According to an unsubstantiated dossier that BuzzFeed News had the abandon to publish in full in January, President Trump (then just a questionably wealthy pariah) hired a gaggle of prostitutes to "perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him" on the bed in the Ritz-Carlton Moscow's "presidential suite" — room 1101 — where then-President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had stayed during a diplomatic visit to Russia.
By National Memo
Keep Your Smartphone At 100 Anywhere With These Deals
By Sarah Sanchez
#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Hangs Out With An Oligarch
As part of the Late Show's "Russia Week," host Stephen Colbert palled around with oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, the multi-billionaire owner of the Brooklyn Nets ("Nyets") who made his fortune after buying a state-owned nickel mine "for just pennies on the nickel."
By National Memo

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#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Books The Infamous Presidential Suite At Moscow Ritz-Carlton

According to an unsubstantiated dossier that BuzzFeed News had the abandon to publish in full in January, President Trump (then just a questionably wealthy pariah) hired a gaggle of prostitutes to "perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him" on the bed in the Ritz-Carlton Moscow's "presidential suite" — room 1101 — where then-President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had stayed during a diplomatic visit to Russia.

By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Hangs Out With An Oligarch

As part of the Late Show's "Russia Week," host Stephen Colbert palled around with oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, the multi-billionaire owner of the Brooklyn Nets ("Nyets") who made his fortune after buying a state-owned nickel mine "for just pennies on the nickel."

By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Talks To The New York AG Who Sued Trump University

By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: Hear A White Supremacist's Advice For Trump

The Religious Right civil war, the devil's in the "no-fly" list, and a white supremacist tells Trump exactly how to "Make America Great Again." Welcome to “This Week In Crazy."

By Sam Reisman

This Week In Crazy: Or, How Not To Respond To A Tragedy

When 49 people were massacred in a gay nightclub in Orlando last weekend, the vast majority of Americans responded with outrage, sympathy, and resolve to do better. And then there were these people. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy."

By Sam Reisman

This Week In Crazy: GOP Makes Its Bed With Trump

The satanic Switzerland tunnel, the classic it's-not-Trump-it's-you racism feint, and the Republicans' devils bargain with the Donald. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy."

By Sam Reisman

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MONEY

Hedge Funds, Oil, Fossil Fuels And Pharma Gave Money To The GOP
By David Sirota

Did Trump Get A Big Tax Refund After 2005?
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LIFESTYLE

#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Books The Infamous Presidential Suite At Moscow Ritz-Carlton
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Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is 'Collapsing'
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HEALTH

Danziger: Thanks, Obama
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Open Burns, Ill Winds
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