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Russiagate Has Reached Steve Bannon’s Doorstep

by Nancy LeTourneau March 21, 2018January 9, 2022

As we learn more about Cambridge Analytica, questions mount about Bannon’s role in a possible conspiracy.

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Why Robert Mueller Should Be Interested in When Trump Decided to Run for President

by Nancy LeTourneau March 20, 2018January 9, 2022

A confluence of events in both the U.S. and Russia point to the possibility that the decision was made in late 2013 or early 2014.

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Are Mona Charen and Michael Steele “Woke” Now? No.

by D.R. Tucker February 25, 2018January 9, 2022

They’re probably shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here, too. It’s tough to have sympathy for ultraconservative syndicated columnist Mona Charen (whose columns could knock an insomniac out) in the wake of the rude treatment she received from the cretins at CPAC this weekend, when she condemned Donald Trump’s disrespectful […]

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A Reckoning on Patriarchy

by Nancy LeTourneau February 12, 2018January 9, 2022

Trump has ignited an opposition force deeper and more primal than populism.

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The Hypocrisy of Republican Attacks on the Steele Dossier

by Nancy LeTourneau February 6, 2018January 9, 2022

In 2016, Republicans promoted an FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton based on partisan research.

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Trump and the Triumph of Fake News

by D.R. Tucker February 5, 2018January 9, 2022

It’s hard to dispute one word of Brian Stelter’s February 4 condemnation of the GOP’s memo-based malevolence–and the right-wing media’s key role in fueling the foolishness of Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA): Geraldo Rivera is also unquestionably correct: had Fox News and Hannity been a prominent cultural/political force in the early 1970s, Richard […]