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Miami GOP Congressman Deceived Banks On Mortages
Surprise: Biggest Arizona Daily Endorses Democrat For Senate
GOP Smears Marine Vet Amy McGrath In Close Kentucky Race
Putin Gloats Over America's Downfall Under Trump
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Americans Are Living High At The Expense Of Posterity
By Steve Chapman
Senator Heller Pushed Unproven 'Brainwave' Treatment Of Veterans
By Isaac Arnsdorf
Danziger: Friends Like This
By Jeff Danziger
Old School: How Beto Should Go Negative On Cruz
By Mark Shields

Top News

Pretending To Be Democrats, GOP Dark Money Outfit Attacks Gillum
A Republican dark money group has been misleading voters and using Facebook to smear Florida gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum.
By Oliver Willis

Presidential Historian: Why Trump Should Make Us All Nervous
A reminder that Donald Trump has the single control of nuclear weapons.
By Elizabeth Preza

National Memo Editor’s Blog

Khashoggi's Demise Reveals Unpleasant Truths
By Joe Conason

Nevada Candidate Holds Fundraiser With Vegas Shooting Conspiracist Roger Stone
Stone is a misogynist and racist who is being investigated by Robert Mueller.
By Eric Hananoki
Donald Trump: The First U.S. President Who’s Openly Traumatized By ‘Saturday Night Live’
He shows greater disdain for the show than he does for foreign dictators.
By Alex Henderson
Georgia: Kemp's Expanding Offensive Against Minority Voters
Brian Kemp's war on voters is much more extensive than recent news suggests.
By Eric Boehlert
Trumpsters Running Smear Campaign Against Khashoggi
Trump's allies are orchestrating a smear campaign against Jamal Khashoggi to take the heat off Trump for his failure to hold Saudi Arabia accountable.
By Caroline Orr
Mueller Probing Late GOP Operative Peter Smith on Wikileaks
And now, the Journal says there is evidence that could tie Smith to WikiLeaks' dispersal of stolen emails from Hillary Clinton's Campaign Chair John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee.
By Cody Fenwick
How Ivanka And Her Dad Misled Buyers In Trump Projects
Read the Trumps’ false statements — and what the actual facts were.
By Katherine Sullivan

Money
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
Former GOP Mega-Donor Spending Millions To Elect Democrats
Rich Republicans are switching sides to stop Trump.
By Eric Boehlert
Chief Justice Halts Disclosure Of 'Dark Money' Donors
Chief Justice John Roberts halted a federal judge’s order that invalidated a Federal Election Commission regulation that has allowed donors to dark-money groups to be anonymous.
By Sarah Okeson

Health
Handmaid's Tale? Trump Administration Curbs Access To Birth Control
Trump health officials plan to rewrite guidelines for a federally funded family planning program to make it harder for low-income women to obtain birth control.
By Sarah Okeson
Far Right Fabricates Ford Link To 'Abortion Pill'
This false claim was then picked up by another fake news purveyor, Natural News, run by Mike Adams, a far-right blogger who also created a site to smear Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg as a so-called crisis actor and member of the “Hitler Youth.”
By Julie Tulbert
White House Officials Fear President Is 'Mentally Unraveling'
Dr. Brandi Lee, a psychiatrist who put together a book of essays on President Donald Trump's mental health, discussed the fact that two White House officials separately called her to discuss their concerns about the president.
By Cody Fenwick

Lifestyle
Donald Trump: The First U.S. President Who’s Openly Traumatized By ‘Saturday Night Live’
He shows greater disdain for the show than he does for foreign dictators.
By Alex Henderson
#EndorseThis: Trump Finally Admits Jamal Khashoggi Is Dead
Colbert doesn’t find the president’s perfunctory expression of sorrow over the death of Jamal Khashoggi very convincing.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Donald Trump Blinds Colbert With Science
Trump boasts of his “natural instinct for science" because he once had an uncle who taught physics at MIT. Colbert isn't persuaded.
By National Memo

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#EndorseThis: CNN Video Exposes Saudi 'Body Double' In Khashoggi Killing
A new report from CNN early Monday utterly destroys the Saudi cover story for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi with video evidence.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Trump Finally Admits Jamal Khashoggi Is Dead
Colbert doesn’t find the president’s perfunctory expression of sorrow over the death of Jamal Khashoggi very convincing.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Donald Trump Blinds Colbert With Science
Trump boasts of his “natural instinct for science" because he once had an uncle who taught physics at MIT. Colbert isn't persuaded.
By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

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
This Week In Crazy: Trump's God-Given Mission To Nuke North Korea
Nuclear holy war, Chi-Raqi occupation, and Al Gore's "big ugly ass." Welcome to This Week In Crazy.
By Brendan Gauthier

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POLITICS
How Republicans Empower Violent Fascist Gangs
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What Republican Whiners Dread Is Democracy - Not 'Mob Rule'
Against Trump's Elitism, Try Do-It-Yourself Populism
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
House Of Trump, House Of Putin: The Untold Story Of Donald Trump And The Russian Mafia
By Craig Unger
Comic Relief From Rick Wilson As We Await Trump's Exit
Major Publishers Reject Don Jr.'s 'Defense Of Daddy' Book Proposal

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
The Hidden Money Funding The Midterms
By ProPublica
Former GOP Mega-Donor Spending Millions To Elect Democrats
Chief Justice Halts Disclosure Of 'Dark Money' Donors
LIFESTYLE
Donald Trump: The First U.S. President Who’s Openly Traumatized By ‘Saturday Night Live’
By Alex Henderson
#EndorseThis: Trump Finally Admits Jamal Khashoggi Is Dead
#EndorseThis: Donald Trump Blinds Colbert With Science

WORLD
With Trump In Office, World Opinion Of U.S. Plunges
By Caroline Orr
World Leaders: Yes, We Were Laughing At Trump
Danziger: The Joke's On Us
HEALTH
Handmaid's Tale? Trump Administration Curbs Access To Birth Control
By Sarah Okeson
Far Right Fabricates Ford Link To 'Abortion Pill'
White House Officials Fear President Is 'Mentally Unraveling'
VIDEO
#EndorseThis: CNN Video Exposes Saudi 'Body Double' In Khashoggi Killing
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Trump Finally Admits Jamal Khashoggi Is Dead
#EndorseThis: Donald Trump Blinds Colbert With Science

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