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President Donald Trump is making 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado "grovel" to him, according to one prominent conservative.In a Friday segment on her show "The Source,"Friday segment on her show "The Source," CNN host Kaitlan Collins played video of President Donald Trump answering a question from Collins about Machado's upcoming visit to the White House. When Collins asked if Trump would allow Machado to run Venezuela if she handed over her Nobel Peace Prize, t

Slate Senior Writer Christina Cauterucci says the right is waging a "war on empathy," and the fatal shooting of Minneapolis mother Renee Good shows just how close they’ve come to winning.“Among their base, today’s GOP is trying to drum out any natural impulses toward compassion, such that there is no imperative to feel — let alone express — any dismay at the killing of an ideological adversary. If Good wasn’t on Trump’s side, the party line goes, she got what was coming to

MS NOW data journalist Philip Bump says the public should no longer take the word of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seriously anymore.“The skepticism one ought to bring to any pronouncement of [President Donald] Trump should similarly be applied to those who work for and defend him. Particularly when — as in the case of the Department of Homeland Security — those officials have repeatedly been caught in fabrications of their own,” Bump said.Trump is a liar, said Bump. And he hires liars to work for him, even in federal departments where credibility is central to function. This i

Former RAND Corporation senior political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh warns in an op-ed for the American Conservative that President Donald Trump is endangering the U.S. homeland by splashing a thin military all over the globe.When Trump made good on this commitment to raid and arrest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and then “run” the nation and its oil industry, Kavanagh said he increased the U.S. military presence without pulling it back from other wasteful assignments.The military presence in Latin America now in

Republicans are poised for potentially staggering losses in this fall's midterm elections. One conservative is arguing that those losses are mostly due to a glaring problem of Republicans' own making.In a Friday essay for conservative website The Dispatch, senior editor John McCormack (a veteran of conservative outlets The Weekly Standard and the National Review) observed that President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans appear mystified by the president's consistently low approval ratings. He wrote that a "core tenet

President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Republicans in Congress after a group of senators voted to block him from waging war in Venezuela. Some Capitol Hill Republicans are now grumbling about the White House's aggressive arm-twisting.In a Friday report by CNN's Annie Grayer, multiple House Republicans described how they've had second thoughts about voting for things that may be seen by Trump as a provocation. Grayer reported that this fall's looming midterm elections have Republicans feeling particularly wary of angering the White House."A member could be one phone call or Truth Social post away

Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will is surprised that a president so critical of Europe is pushing to build a European “knock-off” of France’s Arc de Triomphe. What’s worse, he argued, is the fact that Trump wants to use it to “clutter one of the world’s great urban vistas” near the Arlington National Cemetery.Will compares Trump’s arc to his Oval Office, which is “stuffed to overflowing with gold bric-a-brac [that] might be beautiful to someone who is colorblind. Or to connoisseurs of high-end Gilded Age brothels.” But while the Oval Office can be “visually fumigate

President Donald Trump reportedly tore into a member of his own party after she voted against his administration earlier this week, according to a new report.The Hill reported Friday that Trump was apparently "fuming" upon hearing that Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and four other Republicans were planning to vote with Democrats on a procedural motion to advance a war powers resolution this week. The five Republicans gave Democrats a narrow majority on legislation that, if passed, would block Trump from waging war in Vene

President Donald Trump recently had a tense conversation with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) in the wake of five Republican senators siding with Democrats against the administration.That's according to a Friday article in Politico, which reported that Thune acknowledged having a "very spirited" conversation with the president after Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) voted in favor of a procedural motion on a war powers resolution that would block Trump from waging war in Venezuela. Trump previousl

I had intended to write to you today about the cold-blooded murder of an innocent mother by masked U.S. government agents on a Minneapolis street Wednesday.Instead, I want to circle back to the through-line that has enabled killings like this, and myriad other atrocities by the lawless, despicable Donald Trump: The sane-washing of this madman by our abominable and increasingly complicit legacy media.Let me be as precise as possible with this next run-on sentence: Places like the New York Times can never again be trusted, because of their appalling inability and/or refusal to identify and c