Politics

Booking.com indicates that the cheapest room you can grab at the Trump International Hotel in Washington D. C. will run you $595 a night (discounted from $735). That may sound like a lot for a room that feels compelled to advertise that you get a “private bathroom” and “air conditioning,” …

Heroin is by far not the biggest problem. The New York Times has published another of those scary stories about the epidemic in drug overdoses in the United States. Last year, the Times calculates, nearly 60,000 Americans died from overdoses of prescription and illegal drugs. That’s an increase over the previous year …

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross made a complete jackass of himself when, last month in Saudi Arabia—an authoritarian monarchy that strictly prohibits almost all dissent—he remarked that there were no protests there when Donald Trump visited, just “a genuinely good mood.”  Jake Johnson writes—Where Are All Saudi Arabia’s Protesters? These 14 …

Rashida Jones (photo via lifetailored.com) by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) The Screen Actors Guild‘s SAG-AFTRA Foundation announced today that Emmy®-nominated actor Rashida Jones will receive its Actors Inspiration Award, an honor recognizing artists who give back to the community by championing worthy philanthropic causes which make a difference in the world. On Monday, …

But he wore the MAGA hat and everything. Nothing to see here, just the complete collapse of trust and cooperation between the idiot man-child and the hired members of his own administration. As the White House braces for former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony Thursday, sources tell ABC News the …

Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is If we branded environmentalism as ‘macho’: • Donald Trump has 1323 days left in his term of office. • On this date 73 years ago, the Allied forces invaded Nazi-occupied France. • On this date 49 years ago, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los …

You just can’t get away from the grifting, if you’re a Trump. It seemed like Eric Trump actually started out with the best of intentions when founding his Eric Trump Foundation to support research into children’s cancer by raising lots of money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the leading pediatric cancer …

Campaign Action Almost 60 percent of voters say that Medicaid is important to them, in the most recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey. That’s because Medicaid touches so many lives—it covers the children in many working class families. It covers the long-term and nursing home care for parents and grandparents. And …

Campaign Action Under pressure from the White House, it looks like Mitch McConnell and his Senate leadership team are pushing for a Trumpcare vote this month, before the July 4th congressional recess. White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short told reporters that that vote is definitely happening before the …

Can you tell me the name of a good moving company? The rewards of embracing Donald Trump, even if you avoid getting chicken grease on your jacket, are fleeting. Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trump’s campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the …