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President Donald Trump’s choice to lead America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon who gained international attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for his opposition to vaccine mandates. On paper, Makary seems like a great choice for the job, but a conservative newspaper is reporting “soap opera”-level drama associated with his tenure.“Has any Trump administration official caused more political headaches for the president than Marty Makary?” wrote Allysia Finley of The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. “His Food and Drug

President Donald Trump may be stuck in the mid-30s when it comes to his national approval rating, but he is gloating about a different type of public relations victory — namely, his success in bringing America’s premiere professional golf league to his private club.“While his popularity lags — recent polls have put Trump’s approval ratings in the mid-30s — this weekend offers the kind of validation that Trump craves,” wrote The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond and Rick Maese, listing Trump’s presumed pleasures as including “watching the world’s greatest golfers navigate a course he c

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer is convinced his ex-boss has quite literally become a “madman” — and that he must be removed from office.“We’re in a real crisis here in the US,” attorney Ty Cobb told The i Paper in an interview that ran on Sunday. He added that the president is a “dictator,” “a madman” and is “destroying our democracy.”As one example, Cobb observed that Trump appears to be “desperate” and therefore increasingly dangerous as the war in Iran drags on despite his efforts to quickly wrap it up. In seeming response to these frust

President Donald Trump makes late-night social media posts so frequently, a recent report indicates that he may literally not be getting enough sleep.“Donald Trump’s late-night and early-morning posting habit is now so prolific there were only five days in April when he could have had a full night’s sleep,” The Daily Beast’s Josh Fiallo posted on Sunday. The publication analyzed Trump’s use of his Truth Social platform and concluded that there is a “breathtaking scale” to his late-night posting.“At this point in his first term,

President Donald Trump and his supporters frequently cite Christianity as a basis for their policies — but the leader of America’s largest Methodist church is running for the Senate in Kansas as a Democrat and against Trump’s agenda.“In a world that feels more and more divided, I’ve had the privilege of being a pastor for 36 years of a church that’s roughly equally divided between Republicans, Democrats and independents,” the Rev. Adam Hamilton, who leads America’s largest Methodist charge after starting it with just a few members at a funeral home chapel,

President Donald Trump is widely believed to have the unwavering support of a majority of white men — yet some so-called liberal “bros” are fighting to change that.In a profile of liberal influencers Jared Shult and Harry Sisson, USA Today’s Jay Stahl recently observed that the New Yorker and Texan (respectively) aim to build the Democratic Party’s support among Generation Z — and especially with other young white men like themselves.“Two of the left's best-known young straight white men, they punch back at MAGA movement member

Two experts have raised concerns about the relationship between President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. According to The Hill's David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler, Congress has shifted its approach to governing under unified party control."Past presidents have treated unified government — that is, one-party control of the White House and Congress — as an opportunity to enact bold legislative agendas," the experts wrote. "Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal reshaped banking protections and labor law and started Social Security. Lyndon Johnson's

Chief Justice John Roberts made a rare public appearance last year to defend his Supreme Court colleagues from criticism that they were overturning decades-old precedent, according to CNN reporter John Fritze.Roberts has sought to rebut accusations that the court is partisan, pointing to its record since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. However, Fritze examined Roberts' claims against the court's actions.The court has overruled Humphrey's Executor, which protected federal employees from being fired by the president without cause; aspects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which addressed discriminatory gerrymandering; and Chevron v. Natural Res

The Trump administration has called on TV network ABC to “take a stand” after a joke from its late night comedy host Jimmy Kimmel offended the US president and first lady.Two days before the White House Correpondents’ dinner on April 25, Kimmel broadcast what he said was a “roast” of the Trump administration. Roasts are typically quite savage comedic attacks which have become a traditional part of the dinner. Trump, who was famously the target of jokes from former president, Barack Obama, at a dinner in 2

I’m not going to dwell on this week’s outrages by Trump and his regime — his Supreme Court appointees gutting the Voting Rights Act, his bizarre claim that his war doesn’t require congressional approval because it’s “terminated,” his murders of additional sailors he suspects of smuggling drugs, his ongoing ICE raids, his continuing efforts to use the Justice Department to punish perceived enemies, his renewed attempts to silence comedians such as Jimmy Kimmel, his giant self-aggrandizing triumphal arch (what triumph?) and grotesque ballroom, his never-ending corruption and lies.Yet in the midst of this cataclysm, the backlash against Trump is growing. Your work has been critical — your demonstration