Israel and the Puritans: A dangerous historical romance

“Humankind can not bear very a lot actuality,” T.S. Eliot wrote within the first of his 4 Quartets. As we speak’s Israel-Hamas warfare and America’s personal more and more warlike divisions are forcing a few of us to bear realities we haven’t borne fairly so closely earlier than. A few of these realities contain attitudes in opposition … Read more

“Not quite”: Trump’s First Amendment argument in Ga. case “unlikely” to work, experts say

A lawyer for Donald Trump argued on Thursday that the ten felony expenses towards the previous president in his Georgia election interference case must be dismissed, citing First Modification protections. That argument got here throughout an almost two-hour listening to earlier than Fulton County Superior Courtroom Decide Scott McAfee, held in response to a submitting … Read more

Biden just can’t stop stepping on his own good intentions

Anybody else prepared for a day out for an vital business message or a snack – as a result of I’m worn out.  Tuesday confirmed the story of two presidents in its most condensed type.On the similar time President Joe Biden walked into the White Home’s Roosevelt room to handle the gorgeous collapse of the … Read more

“This is insane”: RNC reportedly makes Trump’s false election claims a “litmus test” for new hires

The Republican Nationwide Committee is asking potential job candidates in the event that they consider the 2020 election was stolen in a “litmus exams of kinds” following the Trump-backed purge of the occasion committee, in keeping with the Washington Put up. Trump advisers have “quizzed” a number of workers who labored in key 2024 states … Read more

“Intimidating the judge”: Expert says Trump Truth Social post put a “target” on judge’s daughter

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the decide overseeing his Manhattan prison hush-money case and his daughter. “Choose Juan Merchan, a really distinguished trying man, is however a real and licensed Trump Hater who suffers  from a really critical case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “In different phrases, he hates … Read more

“You don’t have a case”: NY judge “furious” with Trump’s lawyers at critical hearing

New York Choose Juan Merchan on Monday scolded former President Donald Trump’s authorized group over their push for a delay in his Manhattan legal hush-money trial. Trump was in court docket on Monday “eyeing Merchan intently” as his group pushed to delay his looming trial. Trump’s attorneys requested for an adjournment of at the very … Read more

Who brought the crime, the drugs and the rape? It was him

When Donald Trump got here down that cheesy golden escalator in his grotesque Fifth Avenue constructing on June 16, 2015, to the half-hearted applause of a bunch of paid actors, he had lots of incoherent, half-baked issues to say in asserting his seemingly unlikely marketing campaign for president. However his most quoted utterance of that … Read more

It’s time to ignore Trump’s trials: Criminal accountability is now a distraction

On this planet of Trumpian politics and the 2024 presidential contest, constitutional democracy is ensnared by a modern-day Benedict Arnold.  Donald Trump is a person who has managed to all however exorcize himself from 4 separate felony trials involving issues starting from falsifying enterprise data to illegally retaining categorized paperwork to making an attempt to … Read more