The USA Today expose of Donald Trump’s habit of not paying people who have worked for him: At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among […]
That’s quite a front page, considering how much the NY Post has bashed Hillary Clinton over the years. Her speech a couple of hours ago, as she officially became the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, hit exactly the right tone. It was the first time I’ve heard her invoke the history of women’s rights in the […]
After the debacle of Donald Trump’s press conference yesterday, in which he berated the media repeatedly, I flashed back to something I wrote three months ago today: I have never seen a political candidate so publicly disgusted by, yet so totally dependent on, the national media as Donald Trump. At his rallies, he tells his […]
A few days ago, I posted a link to Amanda Marcotte’s column, in which she says Bernie Sanders has to drop the notion that everyone who disagrees with him is corrupt or a dupe. I liked it so much that I invited Amanda to discuss it on my radio show. We also delved into whether […]
John Opdycke is president of Open Primaries, a group that wants to force the Democrats and Republicans to allow everyone to vote in their primaries, rather than the closed system that’s been in place for years. I asked him why it would make a difference, how he’s going to get them to change a system […]
Amanda Marcotte says Bernie Sanders has to drop the notion that everyone who disagrees with him is corrupt or a dupe: The fact of the matter is that Sanders has been campaigning for nearly 13 months now. He not only had a chance to make his pitch, but he had a chance to make it […]