The stakes were high in San Antonio Tuesday night as Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) met on the debate stage for the second time. The debate comes as polls show Cruz holdinga healthy lead over his challenger —one that’s increased since the pair’s first debate in …
Read More »Key Revelations From Mark Judge's Addiction Memoir, 'Wasted'
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 …
Read More »Jamil Smith: Brett Kavanaugh's Fragile Manhood
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 …
Read More »Christine Blasey Ford Has Displayed More Credibility Than Sen. Chuck Grassley
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. …
Read More »Anita Hill's Advice to the Senate Judiciary Committee
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 …
Read More »How Congressional Hopeful Jahana Hayes Went From Teen Mom to Teacher of the Year
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, …
Read More »Trump Is (Still) Melting Down Over Bob Woodward's Explosive Book
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 …
Read More »Trump Suggests Kneeling NFL Players Just Chill Out and Enjoy Themselves
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 …
Read More »3 Looming Questions After Trump's Border Policy Change
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 …
Read More »Watching the Deletion of Democracy Before Our Eyes
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 …
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