Thursday’s press conference was intended to serve as a vehicle for Donald Trump to introduce Alexander Acosta, his pick to replace Andrew Puzder’s failed nomination. But not much was said about Acosta, a former U.S. attorney and dean at Florida International University’s School of Law (a nominee that is not without…
BuzzFeed News reports, and several other sources have confirmed, that a third candidate—an anti-Trump Republican—is set to declare his candidacy on Monday. This news will either blow up the entire election season, that has thus far been a festival of fuck ups, or do nothing much at all.
In an interview this week with world softball-question champion Katie Couric, two-time loser Mitt "Mittens" Romney says he's not running for president again because it doesn't "feel right." He also doesn't believe that "binders full of women" lost him any votes, although he does wish "I would have said that…
Political Stratego champion Hillary Clinton is frustrating potential opponents in the 2016 presidential race by keeping her plans super secret. Is her "transition office" in a small corporate space on Connecticut Avenue in Washington D.C. the beehive of advance polling everyone thinks it is, or is it really just a…
Is this the day when you finally agree with Pat Buchanan on something? On one hand, while it's unseemly to wish death on anyone, the idea of a world without Pat Buchanan is sort of lovely. But on the other hand, the idea of Pat Buchanan not living to be incensed over a female President is not a world I care to…
The title of a new book about Barack Obama's presidency is Confidence Men. It suggests, among other revelations, that Obama only had confidence in men.
A lot of anonymous people are insisting, with plenty of bitterness but unprovable logic, that Hillary Clinton would have been a better president than Obama. Angriest among these, according to Newsweek's Leslie Bennetts, are older women.
A New York Times profile today makes it clear that Newt Gingrich plans to put his wife Callista front and center in his presidential campaign, despite the fact that having an affair with her while married to someone else sort of undercuts that whole social conservatism thing. But it doesn't answer the question, Why?
