Our president wants to "knock the hell out of ISIS" and "take the oil"; his key adviser longs for World War III
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Feb 23, 2017 1:00 PM UTC 0The president depicts a failing America that's more like 2009 than 2017 — so he can take credit for doing nothing
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 1:00 PM UTC 0Deeper and deeper: Congress wakes up as Trump's ties to Russia look more tangled and troubling than ever
Heather Digby Parton Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0As Thursday's unhinged performance makes clear, being president is no damn fun, and Donald Trump doesn't like it
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Feb 17, 2017 1:07 PM UTC 0Trump's attorney general was a central figure in the presidential campaign. He can't pretend to be impartial
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 1:15 PM UTC 0As Trump's White House implodes, congressional Republicans must confront a dilemma: their country or their agenda
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Feb 15, 2017 1:15 PM UTC 0Sure, the new administration is engulfed in scandals and infighting. But the Trump business is poised to cash in
Heather Digby Parton Tuesday, Feb 14, 2017 1:14 PM UTC 0Expect good times for cops and prosecutors and a return to the "war on drugs." Don't invest in legal weed just yet
Heather Digby Parton Monday, Feb 13, 2017 1:12 PM UTC 0Ask the FBI — the biggest danger comes from white supremacists, "sovereign citizens" and other homegrown nuts
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Feb 9, 2017 1:12 PM UTC 0He wasn't kidding about being the "law and order" president. What that will mean looks more chilling every day
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Feb 8, 2017 1:07 PM UTC 0John Yoo unleashed the "unitary executive" theory that enabled Bush's torture program. Now he wants to take it back
Heather Digby Parton Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017 1:15 PM UTC 0After decades of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Breitbart, conservatives can no longer tell fact from fiction
Heather Digby Parton Monday, Feb 6, 2017 1:15 PM UTC 0Former Bush speechwriter Michael Anton is revealed as "Decius," a leading intellectual of the Trump revolution
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Feb 3, 2017 1:15 PM UTC 0Not just Muslims: Trump's ban also affects children seeking medical care and child refugees from Latin America
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Feb 2, 2017 1:10 PM UTC 0Evangelical voters were getting restless with Trump's un-Christian policies. Gorsuch is meant to bring them home
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Feb 1, 2017 1:10 PM UTC 0Sessions looks worse in the wake of Sally Yates' firing; Flynn may be too erratic even for the Trump White House VIDEO
Heather Digby Parton Tuesday, Jan 31, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0Alt-right guru turned Trump adviser is using both the "Muslim ban" and bogus voter-fraud charges to spread disorder
Heather Digby Parton Monday, Jan 30, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0Voter-suppression zealot Hans von Spakovsky is among the key voices urging Trump to go after mythical voter fraud VIDEO
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Jan 27, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0Trump proposes a blinding cascade of policy changes, but his casual "torture works" may be the worst news of all
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Jan 26, 2017 1:25 PM UTC 0Given Trump's erratic behavior in his first few days, Washington is starting to murmur about the 25th Amendment VIDEO
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Jan 25, 2017 1:01 PM UTC 0Trump's "America First" talk doesn't mean retrenchment. He just wants us to dominate everyone and rule the world
Heather Digby Parton Tuesday, Jan 24, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0A chilling first weekend of Trump's regime ends with suggestion that reality is whatever he and staff want it to be
Heather Digby Parton Monday, Jan 23, 2017 1:15 PM UTC 0New evidence emerges on the Bush-era torture program, as Trump takes office. He wants to go "much tougher"
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Jan 20, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0Having set Chelsea Manning free, will Obama use his last day to correct a political prosecution of the Bush era?
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Jan 19, 2017 1:00 PM UTC 0Loose-talking zillionaire known as "the Mooch" has a message for Davos: Only Trump can save global capitalism
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Jan 18, 2017 1:00 PM UTC 0Trump's ideas about crime, police and the death penalty go back to 1970s stereotypes — but present a real danger
Heather Digby Parton Tuesday, Jan 17, 2017 1:10 PM UTC 0Rep. Mike Pompeo is a Rapture-believing evangelical who sees "radical Islam" at work in small-town America
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Jan 13, 2017 1:03 PM UTC 0A surprisingly tough day for the former ExxonMobil CEO: on climate, China, Russia and more, a lot of dodging
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Jan 12, 2017 1:10 PM UTC 0Those salacious reports on Trump's ties to Russia are murky rumors — but Comey's villainy is clearer than ever
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Jan 11, 2017 1:10 PM UTC 0While the president tweets, Mike Pence and Michael Flynn will apparently split up the policymaking. Be afraid
Heather Digby Parton Tuesday, Jan 10, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0Right-wing talk radio fell in love with Putin's manly shtick years ago — Trump just decided to play the role
Heather Digby Parton Monday, Jan 9, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0Trump doesn't want to know about Russia. The unhinged alt-right views of Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon may be why
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Jan 6, 2017 1:15 PM UTC 0Every time Democrats lose, they rediscover the importance of religion. It's a simplistic and disrespectful reaction
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Jan 5, 2017 1:05 PM UTC 0Democrats must resist the GOP's noxious legislative agenda — and plan for impeachment at the same time
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Jan 4, 2017 1:00 PM UTC 0Comey crossed a line previously uncrossed by law enforcement, and changed the outcome of a presidential race
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Dec 30, 2016 1:00 PM UTC 0Donald Trump is on pace to self-destruct — that is, unless the media keeps enabling him
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Dec 29, 2016 1:00 PM UTC 0What conservative principles? Donald Trump humiliated his GOP opponents, and now they grovel before him
Heather Digby Parton Wednesday, Dec 28, 2016 1:00 PM UTC 0Donald Trump and his media allies have convinced millions of Americans that there's no such thing as the truth
Heather Digby Parton Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016 1:00 PM UTC 0He sees you when you're sleeping! Thanks to one great leader and his warriors, "War on Christmas" ends in victory
Heather Digby Parton Thursday, Dec 22, 2016 1:05 PM UTC 0If Congress ever wants to impeach Trump, which violation will it pick first? Another constitutional problem emerges
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Heather Digby Parton, also known as "Digby," is a contributing writer to Salon.
