Category: Politics

By Annie Grayer, CNN Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney said at The Texas Tribune festival Saturday that if former President Donald Trump becomes the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2024, she will not remain a Republican. “I’m going to make sure Donald Trump, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure he […]

There are some frauds so massively insane that Americans won’t do them. Someone has to. I covered this story back in the winter, relying on the important work of local reporters like Bill Glahn at the American Experiment. The story is mind-blowing for the sheer scale of the fraud. In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food […]

This week politically attentive Albertans began to realize that Danielle Smith really is likely to win the United Conservative Party leadership race and will soon be sworn in as premier of Alberta. Travis Toews, still in the game, but barely (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). If that gives you a bad feeling in the pit of your […]

Did Nina Totenberg know a secret that could have changed history? The question hovers over Dinners With Ruth, Totenberg’s new memoir of her four-decade friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsberg, complicating the chronicle of the pair’s triumphs and sorrows, lingering in the air like the fishy aroma of the bouillabaisse Totenberg used to bring to the […]

By Marshall Cohen The special master overseeing the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation has ordered former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to back up out-of-court assertions that the FBI may have planted evidence at the property during their search last month. Judge Raymond Dearie, the court-appointed special master, said in a filing Thursday that Trump’s team needs to […]

Although Fed chairs are supposed to be independent of partisan politics, just two months shy of Election Day, Janet Yellen found herself unwillingly drawn into the 2016 presidential campaign. On Sept. 12, 2016, during an interview on CNBC, Republican nominee Donald Trump accused Yellen of keeping interest rates low to boost the stock market and […]

Is it just me, or is it kind of embarrassing to see lame-duck Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and a couple of little-known United Conservative Party MLAs from rural Alberta hanging around the Toronto Transit Commission’s subway station at Young and Dundas trying to tout the bright lights of Wild Rose Country?  Upstairs from the Yonge […]

Horrific allegations around the Hawthorn Football Club’s treatment of Indigenous players and families have been laid bare. The post Alleged mistreatment of Hawthorn’s Indigenous players reveals sport’s deep-set racism appeared first on Crikey.

You’ve got to hand it to Kaycee Madu, the only United Conservative Party MLA in Edmonton and for a little while at least Alberta’s minister of labour, the man’s got no shame. UCP leadership frontrunner Danielle Smith (Photo: Facebook/Danielle Smith). Call it what you will, brass, cheek, gall or chutzpah, he’s got no shortage of […]

The first crack at a comprehensive history of the four years of the presidency of Donald Trump reads at times less like history and more like a warning. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser and just published today, is based on their time covering Trump — Baker […]