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Trump Inaugural Fund Under 'Pay-To-Play' Scrutiny By Prosecutors
Russian Spy Butina Boasted Of Connecting Trump With Putin
Bipartisan Senators Support Criminal Justice Reform Despite Scare Tactics
Flynn Reportedly Negotiated With Russians During 2016 Campaign
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In The West, It's Open Season On Nature For Big Oil
By Sarah Okeson
A Woman's Life, Illustrated
By Connie Schultz
At The Direction Of The President
By Andrew Napolitano
Democrats Are Being Pulled Both Left And Center
By Paul Starr

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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

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The Rule Of Law Or The Shadow Of Tyranny
By Joe Conason

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
Poll: Most Americans Don't Want Trump's Border Wall
Trump still isn't getting funding for his racist border wall, and he's pitching a fit.
By Oliver Willis
House GOP Leader Defends Trump On Russia
Kevin McCarthy took to Fox News to defend the Trump campaign's repeated, secretive interactions with Russian influence agents.
By Oliver Willis
White House Gave A Big 'Discount' To Banks That Abused Consumers
Mick Mulvaney used his tenure at the CFPB to do the bidding of corporations, not help consumers.
By Dan Desai Martin
Mueller Filing Blasts False Statements To Public
The latest memo strongly hints that Mueller cares about false statements made not only to investigators, but to the public as well.
By Matthew Chapman
Manafort's 5 Big Lies In Special Counsel Filing
Mueller laid out the case in a new court filing — and said his team could back it up with evidence, if need be.
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
#EndorseThis: Kimmel Empathizes With Michael Cohen, Future Ex-Convict
By National Memo
Danziger: Paging Dr. Frankenstein
By Jeff Danziger
SNL: Alec Baldwin Returns As Trump In Argentina
By National Memo

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#EndorseThis: Kimmel Empathizes With Michael Cohen, Future Ex-Convict
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Colbert Volunteers For White House Chief Of Staff
Having heckled White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on his way out the revolving door, Trump was quickly humiliated.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Reviews Trump's Lame And Lonely G-20 Trip
Seth Meyers noticed how poorly the scandal-ridden Trump plays with his international peers at the G-20 meeting.
By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

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
This Week In Crazy: David Crosby Faces Fire, Fury From Ted Nugent
Statue fetishists, blubbering neo-Nazis, and Cat Fight Fever. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.
By Brendan Gauthier

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POLITICS
Democrats Are Being Pulled Both Left And Center
By Paul Starr
Bringing the Future Back Into American Politics
What Is Populist, Really?
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?
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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
#EndorseThis: Kimmel Empathizes With Michael Cohen, Future Ex-Convict
By National Memo
SNL: Alec Baldwin Returns As Trump In Argentina
#EndorseThis: On Late Show, Manafort Auditons For Trump Pardon

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: Kimmel Empathizes With Michael Cohen, Future Ex-Convict
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Colbert Volunteers For White House Chief Of Staff
#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Reviews Trump's Lame And Lonely G-20 Trip

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