Abbreviated pundit roundup: From bad to worse for Donald Trump
Fresh off the heels of his personal lawyer being sentences to prison and implicating him in campaign finance crimes comes news that Trump’s inauguration committee is reportedly under criminal...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: How to negotiate with a weak, scared president
We begin today’s roundup with an excellent piece by Catherine Rampell on Trump’s art of the deal — which basically involves him backing out of his promises:The only way to deal with Donald Trump is to...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! 2019 is going to be an exciting year, from Democratic control of the House to candidates jumping in to the 2020 race. We begin today’s roundup with an editorial from The Washington...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A new era of accountability in the House
We begin today’s roundup with an editorial from The Washington Post on the Democratic agenda in the House:THE NEW Democratic majority House gaveled in on Thursday with reform on its agenda — not so...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A wall of lies
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial on Donald Trump’s disingenuous negotiating position:Any attempt to sell Mr. Trump’s cruel immigration agenda with a veneer of...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A manufactured crisis
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson’s analysis at The Washington Post on why Donald Trump is manufacturing a border crisis:Trump is afraid of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, Laura...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump and Russia, Rep. King's racist ideology and...
We begin today’s roundup with an excellent piece by Tom Nichols at USA Today on the recent revelations regarding Donald Trump and Russia:For apparently the first time in history, the president of the...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Giuliani's admission, the case for impeachment,...
We begin today's roundup with The Atlantic’s cover story by Yoni Appelbaum on the case for the impeaching Donald Trump:On january 20, 2017, Donald Trump stood on the steps of the Capitol, raised his...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's misconduct, Pelosi's skillful leadership...
We begin today’s roundup with Joel Mathis at The Week analyzing this breaking news from BuzzFeed that Donald Trump reportedly directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about his contacts with Russia:If...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's shutdown scam
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post and his analysis of Donald Trump’s shutdown and his cruel approach to the presidency:Imagine going a month without a paycheck....
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A complete lack of empathy
We begin today’s roundup with an excellent editorial at USA Today about the Trump administration’s “let them eat cake” moment:Does anyone in the White House understand the meaning of the word...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Howard Schultz, Roger Stone, and more
We begin today’s roundup with reaction to Howard Schultz’s run for president. First up, Damon Linker at The Week:No one is clamoring for billionaire Howard Schultz to run for president — at least...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Selfishness masked as centrism
We begin today’s roundup with Paul Krugman at The New York Times and his take on the “attack of the fanatical centrists,” people like Howard Schultz who claim to be for “centrist” policies but who...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: SOTU preview
We begin today’s roundup with Ed Kilgore at New York magazine: who writes about Stacey Abrams and her “golden opportunity” to deliver a truly impactful State of the Union response:Abrams will speak as...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Green New Deal, congressional oversight and more
We begin today’s roundup with a look at the Democrat’s Green New Deal from Osita Nwanevu:[S]ixty house Democrats and nine Senate Democrats, including five announced or expected Presidential...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Consequences of the GOP's tax scam coming to light
We all knew what would happen with Donald Trump’s tax scam — it was a huge giveaway to the richest Americans, borne on the back of working Americans. At first, the GOP claimed that the small increase...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's manufactured emergency
President Trump has signaled his intention to formally declare a “national emergency” in order to siphon off emergency funds to pay for the border wall he promised Mexico would pay for. We begin...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Fighting Trump's power grab
We begin today’s roundup with Amy Goldstein’s analysis at The Washington Post about how states are fighting back against President Trump’s unnecessary emergency declaration:A coalition of 16 states...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Domestic terrorism, election security and more
Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone dives into the details of the shocking domestic terror plot unveiled this week, in which a white supremacist was arrested with a hit list of prominent Democrats and...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Democrats start long overdue oversight of the...
We begin today’s roundup with Congressman Adam Schiff’s op-ed regarding the rise of authoritarianism and attacks against democracy around the world:This week, the House Intelligence Committee will hold...
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