Author: Heather Digby Parton

America has always been a haven for cult leaders. Its commitment to religious freedom, a concept on which the country was originally settled — and […]

If there’s one big no-no in international diplomatic negotiations, it’s for one of the players to physically threaten the envoys. The negotiators are there to […]

For a man who has trouble staying awake on camera these days, Donald Trump is really pushing the envelope. After staying up into the wee […]

Donald Trump threw himself a great big birthday party over the weekend, targeted to appeal to the famous white working-class voters who have formed the […]

One of the least remarked-upon chapters in the Republicans’ ghastly Project 2025 document dealt with their plan to cut Social Security and Medicare, ostensibly to fix the […]

We should have known what was going to happen all the way back in 2016 when Donald Trump won the election after refusing to say, during […]

If you’ve ever been to Normandy in early June of any given year, you probably saw something that’s not all that common. Around the anniversary […]

Leon Panetta has been in politics as long as any of us can remember. He started out as a Republican, working in the office of […]

The United States passed a grim milestone in the past few days: The Trump administration has killed the 200th civilian in its military strikes against […]

During this year’s Republican Senate primary campaign in Texas, the National Republican Senatorial Campaign distributed one of the most devastating campaign advertisements ever made. This […]

When Donald Trump was 13, his father caught him with a hidden cache of switchblades. Fred Trump, according to Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote the president’s […]

Over Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump made a sudden announcement that an agreement between the United States and Iran to end the war, which is […]