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Report: Prosecutors Probing Alleged National Enquirer Blackmail

At Hearing, Democrat Raskin Confronts Whitaker Over Ethics Scandals
Trump Campaign Used Donor Cash To Pay Kushner’s Legal Bills
Report: Top White House Aides Losing Patience With Trump
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In Virginia, Democrats Form Their Circular Firing Squad

By Mark Shields
New Evidence Of Possible Tax Violations By Trump Inaugural Committee

By Justin Elliott and Ilya Marritz
The Green New Deal: First, She Made Us Listen

By Joe Conason
Betrayed In Virginia

By Connie Schultz

Top News

Trump’s Golf Club Hired Enough Undocumented Workers To Support A Town
By Emily Singer

Bannon Joins Right-Wing Cabal Pushing 'Privatized' Border Wall
New reporting by Politico sheds light on big players behind anti-immigrant effort.
By Alternet

National Memo Editor’s Blog

My Last Cup Of Starbucks
By Joe Conason

Banks Got $21 Billion Tax Break — And Then Cut Thousands Of Jobs
Banks benefited the most from the GOP's tax scam.
By Emily Singer
Why Trump's Tax 'Reform' Chicanery Infuriates His Supporters Now
Now that the act has been law for more than and a year, the extent of its deception is coming into focus.
By Cody Fenwick
#EndorseThis: Putin Responds To The State Of The Union
By National Memo
Stacey Abrams Rebukes Trump, Citing 'Family Values'
“Families’ hopes are being crushed by Republican leadership that ignores real life, or just doesn’t understand it,” said Abrams.
By Oliver Willis
In Speech, Trump Pleads With Congress To End 'Partisan' Probes Of Him
Boasting about the economy, Trump said: “The only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous, partisan investigations.”
By Dan Desai Martin
GOP Senator Nails Trump Judicial Nominee On Women's Equality
Ernst asked Rao, “Who is at fault in a rape?”—to which Rao responded, “The rapist. The man who commits the rape is, of course, at fault.”
By Alex Henderson

Money

What's The Cost Of High Living?
The rich aren't merely different from you and me. ... They're ridiculous!
By Jim Hightower
America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
Amazon's drawn-out search for another command post to rival the home base in Seattle appears to have been a stunt.
By Froma Harrop
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
Prosecutors asked to probe dutch middlemen washing billions in dirty Kazakh cash for real estate deals in US and Europe.
By David Cay Johnston

Health

How Harris Wofford Changed Our History
Harris Wofford, a committed American citizen who died this past week at 92, proved conclusively that one individual and two political campaigns can change our nation.
By Mark Shields
A Case Study: How GOP And Trump Deregulators Are Killing Workers
The Trump administration’s plan to weaken the beryllium rule offers a case study in the renewed power businesses can wield in the regulatory process.
By Jordan Barab
Anti-Vaxxers Spread A Plague Of Ignorance
An outbreak of measles four years ago at Disneyland focused attention on a growing health menace — the refusal of parents to vaccinate their children.
By Froma Harrop

Lifestyle

Do We Really Need So Many Foreign Tech Workers?
Big Tech has showered think tanks with funding to brainwash Americans into believing that their country is starving for tech expertise.
By Froma Harrop
SNL Cold Open Ices Roger Stone And Tucker Carlson
Last night's SNL cold open featured one of comedy's great stars playing the out-of-control consultant, Roger Stone.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Translates Giuliani Gibberish
“You know things are going great,” observes Stephen Colbert, “when your lawyer is already prepping his argument to stay out of hell.”
By National Memo

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#EndorseThis: Hey, Trump's Childhood Home Is For Sale

Seth reports that Trump’s childhood home in Queens is for sale -- including the room where the future president was likely conceived.

By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Putin Responds To The State Of The Union

By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Colbert Previews Trump's State Of The Union 'Theme'

The White House has leaked word that the presidential speech will showcase a familiar theme: “Choosing Greatness.”

By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: The 'Christian' Right To Discriminate -- And Much More

A Protestant minister holds kids for ransom, a governor turns them into kidsicles, and a state official turns fashionista. It's This Week In Crazy!

By Michael Lathrop

This Week In Crazy: White Nationalist Radio Hosts A Black Wing-Nut

Sharing private data iwith a Russian agent is fine, more mass shootings will make for better statistics on guns, and the Pentagon ghosts American citizens.

By Michael Lathrop

This Week In Crazy: God Re-Elects Trump, Romneys And Netflix Implode

This week in crazy, self-proclaimed prophetess Kat Kerr warned that God will make sure The Donald wins reelection.

By Michael Lathrop

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POLITICS

Report: Federal Prosecutors Are Zeroing In On Trump's Inaugural Committee
By Matthew Chapman

Howard Schultz’s Cable News Fantasy Campaign
Voter Suppression Must Remain A Key Issue
OPINION

The Reckoning Arrives For Donald Trump, Fox News, And The GOP
By Eric Boehlert

Evangelical Leaders Still Support Trump -- But Will Lewd Remarks Repel Voters?
In 24 Years of Town Hall Debates, The Winners, The Losers, And The Weird
BOOKS

Humiliating New Book By Former White House Staffer Enrages Trump
By Oliver Willis

New Book Describes How Trump Humiliated Ryan
Christie's Awful Book Smacks Down Kushner, But Sucks Up To Trump

NATIONAL

Waging War On US Intelligence, Trump Abuses Declassification Process
By Caroline Orr

White House Officials Fear President Is 'Mentally Unraveling'
Surfing That Blue Wave: A Democrat With The 'Empathy Factor'
MONEY

What's The Cost Of High Living?
By Jim Hightower

America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
LIFESTYLE

SNL Cold Open Ices Roger Stone And Tucker Carlson
By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Translates Giuliani Gibberish
On Saturday Night Live, Baldwin Returns To Play Shutdown 'Deal Or No Deal'

WORLD

Obeying Fox Pundits, Trump May Declare 'National Emergency' To Build Wall
By Matt Gertz

Trump Has Drawn Up Emergency Declaration For Wall
In Speech To Farmers, Trump Takes 30 Minutes To Rant About His 'Wall'
HEALTH

How Harris Wofford Changed Our History
By Mark Shields

A Case Study: How GOP And Trump Deregulators Are Killing Workers
Anti-Vaxxers Spread A Plague Of Ignorance
VIDEO

#EndorseThis: Hey, Trump's Childhood Home Is For Sale
By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Putin Responds To The State Of The Union
#EndorseThis: Colbert Previews Trump's State Of The Union 'Theme'

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