The budget-cutters called astrophysicist Dr. Kartik Sheth and his colleagues in the chief scientist’s suite at NASA “low-hanging fruit,” which meant they were among the first to lose their jobs after President Trump signed a raft of executive orders to downsize the federal government. Sheth still has a hard...
The resignation of the executive producer of one of the most venerated news shows in the United States marks yet another notch in MAGA’s tightening belt. It won’t be the last, with President Trump on the warpath and media conglomerates cowering to avoid retribution. More ominously, it shows that...
We treated it like a joke, another grandiose plan promoted by Donald Trump that would go nowhere. But it turns out he was serious when he stood at Mount Rushmore in July 2020 to fervently propose “a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans...
It’s not new, this scrubbing of history to make America look like how Donald Trump imagines it should look. In just the first few months of his second term in office, Trump and his administration have attacked diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Administration,...
Canceling an award-winning comedian because she might hurt President Trump’s feelings? That’s one more casualty in the administration’s war on the media. I don’t applaud the decision. And—full disclosure—I am a member of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), whose leadership voted unanimously to retract its invitation for Amber...
The same crowd that said Hillary Clinton should be jailed over her emails is busy now defending top Trump officials for sharing classified military plans with a magazine editor on an unsecured group chat. “You have got to be kidding me,” Hillary wrote on social media. Yes, the joke...
Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping autobiographical production of his final reign of terror is our collective living nightmare. Every day brings new horrors as the president and his minions wage a dystopian campaign to airbrush American history in his image. At the National Institutes of Health, they literally scraped Dr. Anthony...
Trump propaganda ads are blaring on cable TV touting the president’s greatness while Elon Musk picks up the tab for a million-dollar network ad buy to celebrate “draining the swamp” with DOGE, the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency. “After four long years of humiliation, of failure at home and...
