Susanna Gibson, a candidate running for the Virginia statehouse, appeared, with her husband, on the website Chaturbate.
Stormy Daniels
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Trump Indictment: “The Blows Are Coming from Everywhere, and He Is up Against Many Better Boxers”
Jennifer Taub, one of the nation’s top experts on white-collar financial crimes, offers her take on the former president’s imminent arrest, his chances in court, and why she’s celebrating.
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What Donald Trump Can Learn From Grover Cleveland
The only president to lose and then come back, the 24th president has lessons for the 45th.
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The Things Trump Does For Love
Republicans are reaching when they excuse Trump’s felonies as deriving from his love for his family.
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The Right-Wing Media Machine Was Built to Destroy People Like Christine Blasey Ford
They’re more aroused by destroying lives than Donald Trump was by Stormy Daniels.
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Basket Cases
In his first year on the Court [Clarence Thomas] scarcely ever left the Supreme Court Building on foot, and that was fortunate, in one way, because it meant that he probably never saw the boldly lettered [graffiti] on a Capitol Hill sidewalk across the street. It said, “Anita Told the Truth.” —“The Burden of Clarence […]
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The System Can’t Deal With Trump Piecemeal
Maybe campaign finance violations aren’t a high crime, but wait much longer for more a damning case.
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No More Mr. Nice Party
Michael Avenatti’s core message is that resistance requires ruthlessness.
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The Right’s Obsession with Donald Glover
The attacks on Glover illustrate and underscore the inherent pathetic and self-loathing nature of the American right.
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Exiled by Main Street: Will Republican Voter Self-Suppression Manifest Itself in 2020?
Unlike his affair with Stormy Daniels, he may not get lucky again. A year ago, Bernard L. Fraga, Brian Schaffner, Jesse Rhodes and Sean McElwee observed in the Washington Post that “[W]hat’s clear is that the jump in white turnout in key swing states and drop in black turnout [in the 2016 presidential election] may […]
