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After Canceling Pelosi's Afghan Trip, Trump Approves Military Jet For First Lady's Vacation
In 'Major Announcement', Trump Mostly Repeats His Wall Demand
Russian TV Laughs As Senate Republicans Lift Sanctions On Putin Pal
'Inaccurate': Special Counsel Corrects Buzzfeed Scoop On Cohen
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Christie's Awful Book Smacks Down Kushner, But Sucks Up To Trump
By Simon Maloy
Freud, Swift, And The Modern Theory Of Masculinity
By Gene Lyons
We Must Celebrate Positive Changes Wrought by MLK
By Cynthia Tucker
InfoWars Attacks Corsi To Protect Stone In Russia Probe
By Timothy Johnson

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On Saturday Night Live, Baldwin Returns To Play Shutdown 'Deal Or No Deal'
By National Memo

Trump Campaign's Brazen 'Buy A Brick For Pelosi' Scam
On Friday, Brad Parscale, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, urged Trump supporters to mail bricks to Pelosi and Schumer.
By Matthew Chapman

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What The Shutdown Really Means
By Joe Conason

This Week In Crazy: White Nationalist Radio Hosts A Black Wing-Nut
Sharing private data iwith a Russian agent is fine, more mass shootings will make for better statistics on guns, and the Pentagon ghosts American citizens.
By Michael Lathrop
Trump Security Leak Wrecks Pelosi Trip To Afghanistan
Trump's now leaking information that endangers our military — all because he can't get what he wants.
By Kaili Joy Gray
Will Trump's Poll-Rigging Antics Alienate Drudge?
That banner reads, “Did Trump bribe Drudge poll?,” implying that a Drudge Report poll was rigged to be favorable to President Trump.
By Alex Henderson
Watch This Hilarious Video Mashup Of Giuliani's Shifting Alibis
As the attorney to the president, Rudy Giuliani has leaned into the unorthodox strategy of going on TV and apparently saying whatever comes into his head.
By Cody Fenwick
NEW REPORT Reveals Trump's Bigoted Treatment Of Puerto Rico
The section of the report, relying on anonymous sources, describes Trump’s reaction to emergency funds sent to Puerto Rico after the devastating Hurricane Maria.
By Cody Fenwick
What? Attorney General Nominee Outlined Case For Impeachment
At one point, it even seemed that Barr made a compelling case for impeaching Trump — though it’s not clear how intentional this was.
By Cody Fenwick

Money
America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
Amazon's drawn-out search for another command post to rival the home base in Seattle appears to have been a stunt.
By Froma Harrop
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
Prosecutors asked to probe dutch middlemen washing billions in dirty Kazakh cash for real estate deals in US and Europe.
By David Cay Johnston
The Hidden Money Funding The Midterms
Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors until after the election are gaining popularity among both Democrats and Republicans.
By ProPublica

Health
A Yale Football Player Quits To Save His Brain
He sat out for a week and a half, but when he resumed practice, something was wrong. "I got very lightheaded and could barely feel my legs," he recalls.
By Steve Chapman
Trump Calls Halt To Medical Progress Over Stem Cell Research
Once again, the Trump administration is ready to sacrifice human health at the altar of anti-science extremism.
By Emily Crockett
How Doctors Shamed Arrogant NRA
The NRA tried to shut down doctors pushing for gun safety. It backfired and the gun extremists have been publicly shamed for their actions for a week and counting.
By Oliver Willis

Lifestyle
On Saturday Night Live, Baldwin Returns To Play Shutdown 'Deal Or No Deal'
By National Memo
DeNiro: Trump Makes Mobsters Look Bad
Two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro unloaded on Donald Trump in a scathing interview published Sunday by the Guardian, calling the president both a white supremacist and a “buffoon.”
By Elizabeth Preza
Are We Brave Enough For The New World Of Reproduction?
A new medical device may change almost everything we think about making babies.
By Froma Harrop

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#EndorseThis: Fact-Checking Trump's Weird Cabinet Show
Anderson Cooper’s highly educational, darkly amusing fact check of Trump at his photo-op New Year cabinet meeting.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: How The Trump Saved Christmas!
Jimmy Kimmel has a new children’s book that chronicles Trump and his angry quest to preserve Christmas from marauding, politically correct liberals.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Colbert's Farewell To Crooked Trump Foundation
The corrupt Trump Foundation, now dissolved, will sell off all its remaining assets and donate the proceeds to a bona fide charity.
By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: White Nationalist Radio Hosts A Black Wing-Nut
Sharing private data iwith a Russian agent is fine, more mass shootings will make for better statistics on guns, and the Pentagon ghosts American citizens.
By Michael Lathrop
This Week In Crazy: God Re-Elects Trump, Romneys And Netflix Implode
This week in crazy, self-proclaimed prophetess Kat Kerr warned that God will make sure The Donald wins reelection.
By Michael Lathrop
This Week In Crazy: Grandpa Steve King Is Upset Over Google's iPhone
By Michael Lathrop

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POLITICS
Malala Rebukes Trump: 'This Is Not America'
By Matthew Chapman
DeNiro: Trump Makes Mobsters Look Bad
Trump's Border War
OPINION
The Reckoning Arrives For Donald Trump, Fox News, And The GOP
By Eric Boehlert
Evangelical Leaders Still Support Trump -- But Will Lewd Remarks Repel Voters?
In 24 Years of Town Hall Debates, The Winners, The Losers, And The Weird
BOOKS
Christie's Awful Book Smacks Down Kushner, But Sucks Up To Trump
By Simon Maloy
Michelle And Sheryl And That Itty-Bitty Swearword
House Of Trump, House Of Putin: The Untold Story Of Donald Trump And The Russian Mafia

NATIONAL
Waging War On US Intelligence, Trump Abuses Declassification Process
By Caroline Orr
White House Officials Fear President Is 'Mentally Unraveling'
Surfing That Blue Wave: A Democrat With The 'Empathy Factor'
MONEY
America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
By Froma Harrop
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
The Hidden Money Funding The Midterms
LIFESTYLE
On Saturday Night Live, Baldwin Returns To Play Shutdown 'Deal Or No Deal'
By National Memo
DeNiro: Trump Makes Mobsters Look Bad
#EndorseThis: How The Trump Saved Christmas!

WORLD
In Speech To Farmers, Trump Takes 30 Minutes To Rant About His 'Wall'
By Oliver Willis
Foreigners Shape Up Americans
Trump Spews Nonsense: 'They Can Call It Peaches'
HEALTH
A Yale Football Player Quits To Save His Brain
By Steve Chapman
Trump Calls Halt To Medical Progress Over Stem Cell Research
How Doctors Shamed Arrogant NRA
VIDEO
#EndorseThis: Fact-Checking Trump's Weird Cabinet Show
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: How The Trump Saved Christmas!
#EndorseThis: Colbert's Farewell To Crooked Trump Foundation

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