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New York Attorney General Dissolves Trump Foundation
Sanders Trashes FBI, Even As Flynn Admits He Knowingly Lied
Republicans Demand House Seat Despite Election Fraud
White House Staffers: Trump 'Is Acting Like A Nut'
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How Tucker Carlson's Advertisers Are Advancing Fascism
By Media Matters
A Tale Of Two Foundations
By Joe Conason
How Republicans Sold Out Veterans Health Care To Private Firms
By Isaac Arnsdorf
May You Be Healthy And Covered In 2019
By Froma Harrop

Top News

Fox News Jittery After Advertisers Drop Racist Carlson
The longtime news commentator has veered heavily into white nationalist ideology on his recent shows.
By Matthew Chapman

Zinke Imitated Trump's Media Strategy To The Bitter End
The departing interior secretary mimicked Trump's media strategy, including an allegiance to Fox News.
By Lisa Hymas

National Memo Editor’s Blog

A Tale Of Two Foundations
By Joe Conason

Women Warn GOP: You Dissed Us, So We're Dumping You
Republican women are sounding the alarm.
By Dan Desai Martin
Danziger: A Prick By Any Other Name
Rarely in American political history has any scandal figure sported a moniker as appropriate as Trump's erstwhile pal at American Media Inc.
By Jeff Danziger
Trump's Worst Nightmare? New York's Tish James
The president isn't prepared for what's coming.
By Alex Henderson
Why Paul Ryan Lied About Food Stamps To GOP Colleagues
The compromise farm bill stripped out all of Paul Ryan's priorities — so he lied about it to his GOP colleagues.
By Dan Desai Martin
Report: Kushner 'Punished' For Chief Of Staff Blunder
To punish Kushner for his role in this blunder, Sherman reports that Trump forced his son-in-law to go on Sean Hannity's Fox News show and take the heat. Kushner rarely speaks in public.
By Cody Fenwick
Trump: If I'm Impeached, 'People Will Revolt'
Trump believes he has the people on his side in the event of impeachment. Evidence is scant.
By Matthew Chapman

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
SNL Cold Open: 'It's A Wonderful Trump' (Where He's Not President)
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Kimmel Empathizes With Michael Cohen, Future Ex-Convict
By National Memo
Danziger: Paging Dr. Frankenstein
By Jeff Danziger

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#EndorseThis: Stephen Miller Isn't Funny. But His 'Hair' Is.
By National Memo
SNL Cold Open: 'It's A Wonderful Trump' (Where He's Not President)
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Kimmel Empathizes With Michael Cohen, Future Ex-Convict
By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: Grandpa Steve King Is Upset Over Google's iPhone
By Michael Lathrop
This Week In Crazy: Ross Douthat's WASP Sting, Scott Walker's Whining, And More
By Michael Lathrop
This Week In Crazy: Alex Jones Makes Incoherent Case For White Reparations
Eclipse apocalypse, white reparations, and a journalism crash course from a conspiracist blogger. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.
By Brendan Gauthier

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POLITICS
Ryan Pushes Easier Immigration — But Only For The Irish
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Democrats Are Being Pulled Both Left And Center
Bringing the Future Back Into American Politics
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
Michelle And Sheryl And That Itty-Bitty Swearword
By Connie Schultz
House Of Trump, House Of Putin: The Untold Story Of Donald Trump And The Russian Mafia
Comic Relief From Rick Wilson As We Await Trump's Exit

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
SNL Cold Open: 'It's A Wonderful Trump' (Where He's Not President)
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Kimmel Empathizes With Michael Cohen, Future Ex-Convict
SNL: Alec Baldwin Returns As Trump In Argentina

WORLD
Poll: Most Americans Don't Want Trump's Border Wall
By Oliver Willis
Trump Still Separating Families At Border
To Trump, Tear-Gassed Toddlers At Border Are 'Stone Cold Criminals'
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: Stephen Miller Isn't Funny. But His 'Hair' Is.
By National Memo
SNL Cold Open: 'It's A Wonderful Trump' (Where He's Not President)
#EndorseThis: Kimmel Empathizes With Michael Cohen, Future Ex-Convict

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