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A 72-year-old musician pulled himself to safety after being pushed onto the subway tracks at Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center station early Wednesday morning. The incident occurred in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, at one of the city’s best-known tourist destinations. Rodney Thomas, a 72-year-old guitar player, was waiting for a northbound F or D train at the 47th-50th Streets–Rockefeller Center…
Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, knew a few things about war – certainly more than a five-deferment draft evader and a faux macho Fox News drunk seem to know. One of Ike’s axioms was: “Battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of […] The post Trump just lost his last shred of credibility as a war leader…
Several pictures provided by the Department of Justice on Jan. 30, 2026, as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images Sarah K Lischer, Wake Forest University Widespread denial accompanied the public exposure of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse and trafficking of girls and women. After the U.S. Justice Department released millions […] The post How American…
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Shell game: the rule that made hidden owners transparent just died. In early August, Capital One bank asserted in court that it had debanked accounts tied to Donald Trump businesses in 2021 because of account activity that triggered internal money laundering alerts. JPMorgan Chase had also closed Trump business accounts. Less than two weeks later, […] The post Trump says he was debanked. His…
Is Tucker Carlson a threat to Donald Trump and the Republican Party? The answer may surprise both Carlson’s supporters and Trump’s defenders. The real question isn’t whether Tucker Carlson can build a successful third party or become president. He probably can’t. Third parties have a miserable track record in American politics, and Carlson has shown […] The post Trump’s Tucker Carlson problem…
President Donald Trump and his supporters are testing the courts again. The pro-Trump Kennedy Center board has voted to put Trump’s name back up on Kennedy Center despite a judge’s order to remove his name. The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted on Thursday to inscribe President Trump’s name […] The post COURTS DEFIED AGAIN: KENNEDY CENTER BOARD VOTES TO PUT TRUMP’S…
It had to happen sooner or later. President Trump has ignored a ruling from the Supreme Court. Our constitutional democracy has vanished, and King Donald is doing whatever he wants. Previously, he did defy some lower court orders but never contravened any of the Supreme Court’s rulings. Actually, this action by Trump is the Supreme […] The post Trump Defies Supreme Court On Birthright Citizenship…
If words of wisdom could cure the Republicans’ addiction to Islamophobia, these might suffice: “Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect.” Those remarks were voiced six days after 9/11 by […] The post Can an American…
Work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool began in 1919. Bettmann/Getty Images Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University In the latest twist in one of the strangest ongoing scandals in Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced that the government would be dropping charges against the four people accused of vandalizing the […] The post Trump’s slapdash…
