If Trump gets tired of Fox News asking pesky “questions,” he will surely be relived to know ESPN is waiting for him with open arms. The network offers him the same great bargain: free access, readymade messaging to appeal to his base, a willingness to keep voters in the dark about current events, and reinforcing the…

I’ve died on this saucy hill before and I’ll gladly do it again — quit buying jars of tomato sauce! You have to boil the water to make the pasta, so let’s be honest: this isn’t a time issue. A can of crushed tomatoes, some olive oil, some freeze dried garlic and spices — these are all easy things to keep around. Just…

Currently? Messi. That man dismantles your team and all you can do is stand and applaud. Sublime.

I was gonna say Bartolo Colon, but honestly? I couldn’t outrun Bartolo Colon. I mean, I definitely probably-could- but I wouldn’t want the guy to feel bad. He’s given me so much joy! I’d throw the race. I hope you’re happy, Bartolo.

“The NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues.”

Yeah, it’s probably relevant to point out that hanging in Trump’s Oval Office is a painting of Andrew Jackson, a man who was told by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall that Georgia couldn’t remove Native Americans from their land like he’d asked, and who responded to the verdict by just ignoring it. “The…

There’s a decent argument to be made that this is an ugly but inevitable consequence of having a truly free press. If good investigative journalism and evidence-based accountability is the platonic ideal, any aggrieved party with a willingness to weaponize their opinion and push out any evidence in support of it, even…

As a very unaccomplished person, I appreciate the vote of confidence!

Stephen Miller is what happens when the tail wags the dog and the dog chases its tail, but actually gets its tail — and then promptly shits on its face.

Make no mistake, this is Trump deliberately playing the role of Assad — deciding to plunge a region into chaos to give himself cover and test alliances. It’s the decision of a lunatic.

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Harden’s just worried China will start pulling passports, which would be a huge bummer for him because he really likes to travel.

The NBA really misplayed this. If China is sincerely this afraid of one person within one organization, the NBA could have struck a much harder line and forced China to be the bad guy. You want to suspend all NBA access to all Chinese fans and escalate all of this dramatically just because someone in America said…

On his appointment to the Treasury, one confirming Senator is quoted writing, “Congress may go home. Mr. Hamilton is all-powerful.”

1. Ben Franklin, for reasons previously stated.

Alexander Hamilton is the wrong founder to ask. There were a lot of people of the era who feared exactly what is happening — Hamilton wasn’t one of them. That dude’s image has been burnished beyond recognition by the musical. He was as staunch a believer in the possibility of a future American tyrant as anyone of his…

I think there’s a non-zero chance that Trump digs in too deep and/or throws Rudy under the bus. And Rudy flips. There’s no attorney-client privilege if a crime is being committed or covered up. If that happens — and arguably only if that happens — the Senate will vote to remove.

One thing, however, that’s unique about the situation right now is that it upends Trump’s usual playbook of leveraging an unknown variable to his advantage.

True. And yet the first line of the post: