Is each successive generation of Jeb Bush’s line doomed to be even lamer than the last? Is Jeb the dominant gene? Does Jeb-ness only get more compounded over the ages, perhaps like a Baltic herring that is buried in a can so that it ferments in its own rotting brine for months?
As public vitriol intensifies over Donald Trump’s policy of ripping immigrant children away from their parents, a number of Republicans have come out of the woodwork, about six weeks too late, to denounce the practice.
Staffers on the White House communications team are jumping ship like rats, leaving behind a hollowed-out operation. But as people are quietly pushed out or leave for better gigs, one woman has quietly risen through the ranks: Julia Hahn, Steve Bannon’s 27-year-old protege.
Welcome to What In Tarnation, where Splinter writers Isha Aran and Clio Chang unpack the truly absurd and endlessly punishing hellfire that is the news each week!
Is it just me, or is it the season for unscrupulous ethical behavior in D.C.? The latest incident may have flown under the radar, what with literally every breath Scott Pruitt has taken over the past year, but the Washington Post reported on Friday that the National Institutes of Health had to cancel a 10-year, $100…
If Republicans wanted to stop Donald Trump from ripping children out of the hands of their parents at the border, they could do it by passing stand-alone legislation that addresses the issue, such as the bill that has already been introduced by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Paul Ryan, a man who has defiled two perfectly fine first names for people everywhere, told reporters on Thursday that he is not comfortable with the practice of tearing immigrant children away from their parents at the border. “We don’t want kids to be separated from their parents,” Ryan said, a practice for which he…
One of Scott Pruitt’s closest allies in the Republican Party had admonishments on Wednesday for the cabinet official who has been using the EPA like his personal checkbook. Senator Jim Inhofe, a fellow conservative from Pruitt’s home state of Oklahoma, said that it might be time to swap Pruitt out, amid the most…
In case you hadn’t heard, Marilyn Pruitt, wife of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, really wants a job. A stay-at-home mom since the ’90s, she appears to be very bored in D.C., so bored in fact that her husband has been scrambling to find her something to do since she arrived.
At 4 p.m. today, Judge Richard Leon will hand down a long-awaited ruling that will decide the fate of the AT&T’s $85 billion purchase of Time Warner. The Justice Department is suing to block the vertical merger on an antitrust case (with the added suspicion that the actual motivating factor behind this is that our …
Donald Trump’s administration is not only busy tearing children away from their parents at the border—they’re also going to start focusing on fresh new ways to oppress naturalized citizens in America. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the government agency that…
If you were to hastily design an algorithm to mimic what a politically powerful 71-year-old man credibly accused of serial sexual assault might have to say about rape culture and the resignation of former Senator Al Franken, it would probably sound a lot like what Bill Clinton has come up with lately.
Leaders like Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, and Paul Ryan are retiring, and John McCain is in poor health—meaning there will soon be a void in Congress where all those establishment GOP figures shaking their fists at Donald Trump as they deal out his agenda used to stand. Luckily for the party, Mitt Romney, who you may…
Imagine this: Sex? Or the City? You can’t have both and you have to choose.
Welcome to What In Tarnation, where Splinter writers Isha Aran and Clio Chang unpack the truly absurd and endlessly punishing hellfire that is the news each week!
On Friday, Esquire editor-in-chief Jay Fielden announced that he is hiring Ryan Lizza as the magazine’s chief political correspondent “at a time when Washington is the main event.” Curiously, at a time when the #MeToo era has also become a main event, Fielden failed to mention the fact that Lizza was available for…
Elaine Chao is the rare Donald Trump cabinet official who has largely escaped scrutiny, despite her own hairy ethical practices—including, but not limited to, serving in Donald Trump’s administration. Chao’s latest shady episode comes in the form of an accusation of nepotism, as the transportation secretary defended…
Over the past few decades, “welfare” has become a dirty word in America.
As Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its inhumane policy of separating migrant parents from their children at the border, a federal judge on Wednesday refused the government’s request to dismiss an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging this very practice. This means the suit, which seeks to stop the…
