Politics

Blackouts. Beach week. Bacchanalia. A pivotal job as a bag boy at a grocery store. When Mark Judge wrote Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk in 1997, he could hardly have imagined it would be scrutinized, two decades later, in consideration of his football- and drinking buddy Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme …

The anchor between Brett Kavanaugh’s eyes — a deep crease that turned upward at the ends as he got angry — this was new. At least to any of us who had yet to see the Supreme Court nominee this mad. But liars often attempt to cloak their deceit and …

In searing testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Christine Blasey Ford has recounted, in detail, the sexual assault she says she experienced at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when both were teenagers in suburban D.C. “Brett’s assault on me drastically altered my life,” Ford said under oath. …

It was inevitable, from the moment Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh became public, that Kavanaugh would be compared to Justice Clarence Thomas. Writing in the New York Times on Tuesday, Anita Hill heself said “it’s impossible to miss the parallels.” In a confidential …

Before she won her primary in August, Jahana Hayes had never run for public office. She hadn’t even thought about it. “I spent the last two years waiting for someone to step up,” says Hayes, 45. “I wasn’t seeing it, and I just decided I’ll give it a shot.” Hayes, …

After a busy weekend spent golfing and bragging about his cordial relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, President Trump began his work week by tweeting 14 times before 10 in the morning. The focal point of the president’s wrath was the same as it was last week: veteran journalist …

Thursday night marked the first full slate of NFL preseason games, as well as the litmus test for what could be one of the most contentious seasons in the league’s history. The offseason was dominated by talk of how the league and its teams might discipline players who choose to …

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that allows for families to be detained together at the border while the parents await prosecution. The move was unexpected considering how the administration had spent the past week responding to reports of children being separated from their parents by defiantly maintaining …

Larry Harmon hadn’t voted in a while. He sat out the 2012 presidential election, supposedly because he was unimpressed by the choices of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The software engineer and Navy veteran also skipped the last two-midterm elections. That was his right, right? But when something in our …

A riddle for America, 2018: Could President Trump devise a conspiracy theory so unhinged that not even his base will believe it? Seeing as that the president and Fox News are usually of the same mind, one consciousness depending upon the other, this would create a paradox. But with Spygate …