(The second in a series of diaries from the oddest congressional race in America) Early evening, May 23rd, a fire station in Liberty, New York. Brian Flynn, a Democratic candidate for Congress, is getting ready to hold a town hall on health care issues. Flynn, a businessman and former Citibank …
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So, Roger Stone. Lots of things we can call him: Agent of chaos. Champion ratfucker. Longtime friend of Donald Trump. Maybe-FBI-informant (though he staunchly denies it). At the moment, Stone is a little bit more defensive, given his current situation as a not-yet-indicted – yet likely – target of one …
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President Trump was planning to head to Camp David this past weekend, but, as you probably now realize, that did not happen. Nor did Trump hit the links at any of his golf properties, which means he spent Saturday and Sunday largely alone inside the White House, left to his …
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As we observe the first anniversary of Robert Mueller‘s appointment as special counsel of the inquiry into the Trump team’s Russia ties, we also ought to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the appointment of Archibald Cox as special prosecutor of the Watergate investigation. We know how the Cox story ended. …
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Ohio, North Carolina, Indiana and West Virginia will all hold their midterm election primaries on Tuesday, but the nation’s attention is laser-focused on the Mountain State and coal baron ex-con Don Blankenship. The Senate candidate from West Virginia became a national punchline last week, when, in the latest of his …
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Congress just gaveled in for the second half of the 115thCongress and already a record number of senior Republican lawmakers, along with some vulnerable incumbents, are running for the exits. But in this hyper-partisan Washington, most of the retiring lawmakers and Republican Party leaders are reporting that their party remains …
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UPDATE: Fire and Fury will now come out tomorrow, in defiance of Trump’s lawyer.Henry Holt confirms that we received a cease and desist letter from an attorney for President Trump,”a spokesperson for Henry Holt said in a statement, according to Variety. “We see Fire and Fury as an extraordinary contribution …
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Minnesota Senator Al Franken announced Thursday that he would step down following accusations of sexual misconduct. “I am announcing that in the coming weeks I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate,” Franken said in a heartfelt speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. He …
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“The journey of this country has always been: When we run into this phony populism that occurs, it always gets pushed back,” former vice presidentJoe Biden said on Monday night during the New York stop of his book tour. “It’s one step back, three steps forward.” Biden offered numerous variations …
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Bang bang bang! At about 2:45 p.m. on April 2, 2014, on a drizzly afternoon in Staten Island, New York, an aspiring music producer in his late thirties named Ibrahim Annan was sitting in his car when a noise outside startled him. “Open the fucking window!” Tall and slender, with …
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