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Trump Owes Panama Unpaid Corporate Taxes Yesterday we looked briefly at a weird situation developing between Trump and Panama . It turns...

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It matters almost not at all— unless you’re an undocumented migrant— what Trump campaigned on. Now we get to see which Project 2025...

First a little good news: on Wednesday, the Senate shut down the Republican filibuster ( 50-48 ) of Dave Huitema to be Director of the...

When Saudi Arabia’s de facto dictator, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, overrode his country’s sovereign wealth fund analysts who had...

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Not In These Hyper-Polarized Times When I was growing up, Republican senators like Jacob Javits (NY), Mark Hatfield (OR), Charlies...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption has been breathtaking— the worst of the New York City anti-reformist bad old days. And last night he was...

There are 7,386 state legislative seats in the U.S., from just 49 in Nebraska, the only state with a unicameral legislature, to a massive...

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If Thérèse (professionally known as Madame Defarge) were alive today— and if I had her e-mail address— I’d send her this list, knowing...

In 1969 I spent a month driving around Morocco. I took a ferry across from Algeciras in Spain to Tétouan, still part of Spain but on the...

Congress And, Of Course, Trump Sam Bankman Fried is in prison— at least for now— but the crypto-criminal Mafia he helped cobble together...

Many people say that AIPAC— with its network of other, smaller pro-genocide committees— is the most pernicious of the PACs funneling...

Pay Trump Enough And He'll Flip Flop On Anything In 2015, one of the absurd Trump talking points was that as a billionaire he was above...