Politics With Charles P. Pierce

President Trump holds Cabinet Meeting At The White House
This Is Pure Authoritarian Audacity
The administration* tries something and, if there's no resistance, tries something more. This time, it's shrouding the Pentagon in secr…
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U.S. Border Patrol
What We Are Doing at the Border Is Unspeakable

The Trump administration* has admitted six migrant children have died so far. Should we trust that number?

President Donald Trump Presents Public Safety Officer Medal Of Valor
The Courts Are Doing Their Job. Now Congress Must Do Its Own.
President* Trump loses yet another subpoena case as a judge rules Deutsche Bank and Capital One will have to turn over financial record…
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A Federal Judge Just Threw Trump's Lawyers Out of Court Like a Bar Bouncer Would a Drunk

But the decisive constitutional showdown, when Trump's henchfolk disregard a court order outright, is soon to come.

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Factory at sunset in Cleveland, Ohio
The New Republican Environmental Standard: Don't Make Anything Better Than It Is Now!

Trump's EPA embarks on a conspicuously bad-faith argument on air pollution.

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Taxi Medallions Were Just the Next Target for Bankers Who Learned Nothing from 2008

They just moved on to new victims—in this case, people seeking taxi medallions.

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The Words 'Money Laundering' and 'President' Should Never Be in the Same Sentence
None of this comes within several hundred hectares of complying with the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution that the president* swor…
U.S. Senator And Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Holds Town Hall In NH
Here's How Not to Cover Women Running in 2020

Step right up, Washington Examiner. And some all-too-willing political consultants.

President Donald Trump Delivers Remarks On Modernizing U.S. Immigration
All the World's Crooks Can Depend on the Trump Administration*

The Department of Agriculture funnels trade war bailout money for American farmers to a Brazilian meatpacking operation.

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The Question Isn't How the Republican Party Produced This Disastrous President*
If a Democrat is elected in 2020, that person should use all the powers of the office to demonstrate once and for all that the prion di…
President Donald Trump Delivers Remarks On Modernizing U.S. Immigration
There Is a Tape. It Makes a Difference If There Are Tapes.

Michael Flynn may have just changed the landscape of the investigation into Donald Trump, American president.