Dick Polman
Leave it to MAGA Republicans to ring out the old year with one last blast of craven stupidity. Mike Johnson’s House crew apparently assumed releasing Jack Smith’s recent secret testimony in the midst of holiday festivities would somehow ensure n..
I intend here to discuss MAGA handmaiden Bari Weiss, the CBS News assassin, and to suggest ways we can combat corporate media corruption. But first I need to share a story from my rookie stint in journalism. You’ll see why. In 1975, while covering..
We all have our guilty pleasures - pigging out on potato chips, scrolling TikTok, binging old rom-coms - but for my money nothing beats sappy escapism, the kind that warms your comfort zone, that transports you far away from the here and now. Especi..
You may have noticed the MAGA madman is still fixated on the 2020 election he decisively lost but inexplicably thinks he won. In fact, we have a new trifecta. On Oct. 26 he lied that Joe Biden’s win was “the biggest SCANDAL in American history!�..
Imagine your boss at work were to doze off in the middle of meetings, waking up just long enough to spew racist insults at an entire minority group (“garbage!”) before reconnecting with dreamland. Or was notorious for sliming women as “stupid�..
When Donald Trump launched his first regime in 2017, I warned he would “get a lot of people killed.” Since nobody seems to be keeping track, I’ll cite The Lancet, a top medical journal, which concluded in 2021 Trump’s “appalling response..
I suppose I oughta move on from the evil lummox’s latest misogynist excretion - given that “Quiet, Piggy!” has arguably been trumped by his demand for the execution of six dissident Democrats and given his betrayal of Ukraine at the behest of ..
It’s time for the president to resign! In the words of one newspaper editorial board, the guy “should resign because his repeated, reckless deceits have dishonored his presidency beyond repair…He should resign because that is his best hope to ..
Gee, what a surprise. Eight Senate Democrats sold out their party, surrendered the 40-day fight, and forged a deal with MAGA Republicans to end the government shutdown in exchange for winning nothing in return. Is that totally in character or what? ..
Landslide Democratic victories…now there’s a phrase that I’d almost forgotten how to type. But it has leapt from my keyboarding fingers and landed on the screen with the full force of factual reality. The message in a nutshell: Trump 2.0 sucks..
Laughter is a precious commodity in these dark times, and I indulge myself whenever authoritarian elf Mike Johnson opens his mouth. I’m like that mirthful Mary Poppins character who sings, “I love to laugh, long and loud and clear.” The haples..
Is it too pretentious to launch this piece with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche? The German philosopher and cultural critic has been dead since 1900, but he’s totally in tune with the America of 2025: "When you look into the abyss, the abyss also..
Full Archive
- 01/05/2026 Trump’s toadies tried to bury big news on New Years Eve
- 12/29/2025 CBS News has been rendered worthless by a MAGA handmaiden
- 12/22/2025 Remembering Rob Reiner and ‘The American President’
- 12/16/2025 Happy anniversary to the way things used to be
- 12/09/2025 The 25th Amendment has been rendered meaningless
- 12/02/2025 Sarah Beckstrom died for Trump’s optics
- 11/25/2025 ‘Quiet, Piggy!’ oinked the pig
- 11/17/2025 Why won’t mainstream media outlets call on Trump to quit?
- 11/13/2025 Surrendering is a staple of the Democrats’ DNA
- 11/05/2025 The 2025 elections: Why the Democratic donkey braying with delight
- 11/03/2025 Still waiting for that Republican health care plan
- 10/28/2025 America flushes itself down the toilet
- 10/21/2025 One key element was missing from the massive ‘No King’ rallies
- 10/14/2025 Trump found his replacement for Roy Cohn
- 10/05/2025 MAGA has perfected the unrepentant lie
- 09/29/2025 Sinclair still remains a font of Trump propaganda
- 09/22/2025 MAGA thinks we’re only entitled to their opinion
- 09/12/2025 Charlie Kirk and the test of empathy
- 09/08/2025 Crackpot RFK Jr. is a clear and present danger
- 09/01/2025 Katrina, 20 years later: MAGA has learned nothing
- 08/25/2025 Gavin Newsom’s fight isn’t pretty, but it’s the war we must win
- 08/18/2025 Trump genuflected to his Russian master and shamed America, yet again
- 08/05/2025 Trump’s war on truth is designed to make us stupid and clueless
- 07/30/2025 Why is Trump so obsessed with Obama?
- 07/22/2025 Tyrants don’t like to be laughed at
- 07/16/2025 Trump stoked his nutcase base. Now comes the reckoning.
- 07/08/2025 If the death of kids in Texas won’t wake MAGA up, nothing ever will
- 07/01/2025 The Bloated Billionaire Bill is class warfare
- 06/25/2025 Toddler Don has a new toy
- 06/12/2025 George Clooney’s ode to Edward R. Murrow: Eerily relevant, sadly outdated
- 06/08/2025 Gee. Who could ever have seen this coming?
- 06/02/2025 The totalitarian toddler’s wet dream
- 05/28/2025 The sad defenders of Old Joe’s delusional hubris
- 05/19/2025 Trump’s racist hatred of birthright citizenship is one of his oldest cons
- 05/12/2025 I felt proud to be an American… in Normandy
- 05/01/2025 An interview with author Ken Kalfus on #MeToo and social media
- 04/24/2025 A conservative judge’s dire warning
- 04/21/2025 The death of expertise has been a long time coming
- 04/09/2025 Can mass marches sink MAGA?
- 04/06/2025 Trump vowed to wreck the economy. He won anyway. Now he’s doing it.
- 03/27/2025 With Signalgate, the media can show what they learned from 2016
- 03/20/2025 Jackie Robinson info you won’t get from the MAGA Pentagon
- 03/11/2025 Maybe people will wake up when Elon Musk wrecks Social Security
- 02/27/2025 Jeff Bezos is crafting MAGA’s Pravda
- 02/20/2025 Resigning in protest is a rare act of courage
- 02/17/2025 Living in the world Mitch McConnell has bequeathed us
- 02/06/2025 The all-American plummet, courtesy of the willfully blind
- 01/30/2025 The great escape is the new American dream
- 01/27/2025 Of course the convicted criminal freed his convicted criminals
- 12/02/2024 After 20 years, I’m done writing about politics
- 11/04/2024 It’s up to women to end the MAGA nightmare
- 10/31/2024 Trump’s ‘little secret’ plan to take power even if he loses
- 10/24/2024 A vote for Trump is a vote to catapult Vance into the Oval Office
- 10/17/2024 Harris poked the Baier in the den of disinformation
- 10/10/2024 ‘So what?’: Trump’s real threat to democracy
- 10/02/2024 The moment Tim Walz exposed JD Vance’s totalitarianism
- 09/26/2024 As Hurricane Helene strikes, Trump’s minions at Project 2025 have plans for disaster doom
- 09/19/2024 The Electoral College sucks
- 09/11/2024 Kamala reduced Trump to a parody of himself
- 09/05/2024 The many, many abortion positions of Donald Trump
- 08/29/2024 Democrats claim ownership of the F-word
- 08/23/2024 Thanks to the aging criminal and his cult, Kamala seizes the American mainstream
- 08/22/2024 Tim Walz and the power of heartland authenticity
- 08/15/2024 Kamala Harris will speak to reporters when she’s damn good and ready
- 08/08/2024 Does Trump have a Plan B?
- 08/06/2024 Tim Walz has solid progressive creds and a robust midwestern vibe
- 08/01/2024 Trump’s racism expertly put on display
- 07/30/2024 The Kamala Harris veepstakes is overrated
- 07/25/2024 How dare Kamala buy cookware and other idiotic attacks
- 07/22/2024 The ex-prosecutor vs. the felon
- 07/18/2024 One guy is dangerously demagogic, the other is dangerously delusional
- 07/11/2024 Let’s not forget convicted felon Donald Trump is mentally sick
- 07/02/2024 Trump’s robed accomplices have screwed the rule of law
- 06/30/2024 Joe Biden is not the candidate who needs to quit the race
- 06/27/2024 This is the stuff MAGA wants to whitewash
- 06/20/2024 It’s the Supreme Court, stupid
- 06/13/2024 Hunter Biden was found guilty. Guess what didn’t happen?
- 06/06/2024 MAGA movie pulled, but its lies have already done damage
- 05/31/2024 Are Americans so depraved they’ll put a convicted felon in power?
- 05/30/2024 Are we even remotely surprised ‘Birdbrain’ flew into the MAGA nest?
- 05/23/2024 Sam Alito bets his flag flap gets flushed down the memory hole
- 05/16/2024 Trump is okay with states monitoring women’s pregnancies
- 05/09/2024 The dirty details Trump hid from the voters ahead of the 2016 election
- 05/02/2024 The Supreme Court is goose-stepping for Trump in slow motion
- 04/25/2024 Despite what Trump’s desperate criminal lawyer says, this is not normal journalism
- 04/18/2024 Rest in peace: Truth-teller Bob Graham, who defied Iraq war fever
- 04/11/2024 Trump’s abortion punt
- 04/04/2024 Don’t compare Trump’s social media post to Kathy Griffin
- 03/27/2024 NBC News and the folly of the Ronna McDaniel failure
- 03/21/2024 The day Republican’s impeachment efforts died
- 03/14/2024 A female Republican’s most thankless job
- 03/08/2024 Joe Biden’s State of the Union was strong. Why am I not surprised?
- 03/07/2024 Have we forgotten Trump’s ‘appalling response’ to the pandemic?
- 02/29/2024 The damage Mitch McConnell has done to democracy is indelible
- 02/22/2024 Trump wants to bring Kremlin values to the White House
- 02/15/2024 Ignore the polls. When real people cast real ballots, Democrats win.
- 02/08/2024 For Republicans, chaos is the point
- 01/25/2024 Trump looks pretty beatable. Just not by Nikki Haley.
- 01/12/2024 Trump is already working to undermine the next election
- 01/04/2024 Three big reasons we can plausibly hope for a sunny 2024 election
- 12/28/2023 Another ‘perfect’ phone call, this time in Michigan
- 12/21/2023 Colorado’s top court read what the Constitution clearly says
- 12/14/2023 Do voters even care if the House is broken beyond repair?
- 12/07/2023 Chris Christie’s quixotic quest to talk sense to Republicans
- 11/30/2023 Judge says Trump ‘engaged in an insurrection’ before making a curious ruling
- 11/16/2023 Welcome to the world of MAGA machismo, where muscles trump brains
- 11/09/2023 The GOP’s shrinking junior varsity team has no clue what to do about abortion
- 11/02/2023 Did you hear about Speaker Mike and the dinosaurs on the Ark?
- 10/26/2023 Mike who? Hello to a Republican loon who loves theocracy.
- 10/19/2023 A gagged Trump doesn’t mean a silent Trump
- 10/12/2023 The world is on fire, but America is stuck with its dysfunctional cult of saboteurs and liars
- 10/05/2023 Burning down the House
- 09/28/2023 What the debating Republicans forgot to mention
- 09/21/2023 Impeaching Biden for non-existent crimes is MAGA madness
- 09/14/2023 Exclusive! Advance transcript of the next Republican presidential debate.
- 09/07/2023 Nikki Haley’s shameless, fascist-adjacent flip flops
- 08/31/2023 Amid Trump’s indictments, remembering Fashiongate and Obama’s tan suit
- 08/25/2023 MAGA clown car bullish about its criminal coup defendant
- 08/16/2023 Trump’s confederacy of dunces was actually ‘a criminal enterprise’
- 08/10/2023 Forced-birth reactionaries tried and failed to rig the game in Ohio
- 08/02/2023 Trump indictment reads like ‘Fascism for Dummies’
- 07/27/2023 Mitch McConnell’s medical moment, and George Washington’s ‘Rules of Civility’
- 07/13/2023 A trio of Trump lawyers have destroyed their reputations and careers
- 07/07/2023 Republicans crying about cocaine have forgotten Jan. 6
- 06/29/2023 Democrat’s appealing message for 2024: Getting -bleep- done
- 06/22/2023 The Hunter Biden hunt ends with a whimper
- 06/15/2023 Trump didn’t get the turnout he wanted for his Miami perp walk
- 06/08/2023 Chris Christie’s can’t win, but he can serve a good purpose
- 06/02/2023 We should feel good about sane adults reaching across the aisle
- 05/25/2023 The Republican presidential contest is getting awfully crowded
- 05/18/2023 Trumpists are hyping John Durham’s dud report
- 05/11/2023 Trump suckered CNN right into his sewer
- 05/04/2023 Is Tucker Carlson’s detestable text really the smoking gun?
- 04/26/2023 Let me tell you a story about Tucker Carlson
- 04/20/2023 For Fox News, the cost of doing business
- 04/13/2023 Generation Z, flexing its muscle, imperils MAGA Republicans
- 04/06/2023 When will Republicans realize that banning abortion is political suicide?
- 03/30/2023 ‘How is this still happening? How are our children still dying?’
- 03/23/2023 Bracing for Stormy weather, right-wing hypocrites hunker in the MAGA bunker
- 03/16/2023 Ron DeSantis talks tough to Disney, but appeases Putin
- 03/02/2023 The Fox rot starts at the top
- 02/23/2023 Electing judges is sleaze incarnate
- 02/16/2023 Georgia’s special grand jury reaches unanimous conclusion about Trump’s lies
- 02/08/2023 Are you really surprised by Joe Biden’s impressive State of the Union?
- 02/02/2023 Republicans doing the same thing over and over again
- 01/27/2023 If you thought Donald Trump was the worst, check out Mike Pompeo
- 01/19/2023 Another day, another George Santos revelation
- 01/12/2023 False equivalence cops on the Biden classified document case
- 12/28/2022 George Santos and the normalization of bald-faced lies
- 12/15/2022 Gay marriage no longer a right-wing wedge issue
- 12/08/2022 Republicans can’t seem to fathom why they were beaten
- 12/01/2022 Biden at age 80: How old is too old?
- 11/09/2022 America’s post-midterm forecast: Sunnier than we dared to dream
- 10/27/2022 A Keystone catastrophe
- 10/21/2022 Republican perv pulls his campaign after being caught with his pants down
- 10/12/2022 Correcting a lie about George H.W. Bush
- 10/06/2022 Shocked Republicans are still backing Herschel Walker? You shouldn’t be.
- 09/29/2022 Will Ron DeSantis learn anything from Hurricane Ian?
- 09/23/2022 Trump and the very best mind like you wouldn’t believe
- 09/09/2022 This is CNN. The Cowardly News Network.
- 09/01/2022 Every picture tells a story. This one writes itself.
- 08/26/2022 Democrats have a ‘freedom’ ditty for the midterm elections
- 08/18/2022 For America’s best lawyers, Trump is a leper
- 08/11/2022 Don’t be too quick to say no to Uncle Joe
- 08/04/2022 Red-state Kansas sends a message to right-wing theocrats
- 07/28/2022 Rupert Murdoch is scraping you-know-who off the sole of his shoe
- 07/21/2022 Republican’s nutcase candidates stoke Democratic hopes
- 07/14/2022 Willful blindness is no defense when you summon a mob to wreak havoc
- 06/30/2022 Catholic Ireland is more progressive than America about abortion
- 06/23/2022 What happens when honest private citizens get targeted by fascists
- 06/17/2022 Grassroots MAGA termites are chewing the woodwork of democracy
- 06/03/2022 Let’s move to Australia, where they confiscate mass murder weapons
- 05/26/2022 Here in arsenal America, everything old is new again
- 05/18/2022 Pennsylvania, birthplace of democracy, could elect America’s first fascist governor
- 05/03/2022 Lazy Democrats deserve prime blame for the ruination of Roe v. Wade
- 04/28/2022 Hillary Clinton keeps getting it right
- 04/14/2022 Putin has a chance to conquer France
- 04/07/2022 Mourning the loss of a loved one is not a disease
- 03/30/2022 How much more evidence does Merrick Garland need to indict Trump?
- 03/17/2022 The predictably lying liars are plotting to give Joe pain at the pump
- 03/03/2022 Is America strong enough to endure domestic sacrifice?
- 02/24/2022 In time of war, Republicans giving aid and comfort to the enemy
- 02/17/2022 Sandy Hook parents beat the gun merchants
- 02/09/2022 Big deal, Trump broke another law
- 02/02/2022 Clarence and Ginni Thomas, poster couple for high court corruption
- 01/25/2022 Life becomes ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
- 01/20/2022 It’s Uncle Joe versus his implacable foes
- 01/12/2022 NPR showed us the best way to interview a totalitarian liar
- 01/05/2022 ‘Don’t Look Up!’ is a documentary masquerading as satire
- 12/22/2021 The 2021 Coup d’Etat Trivia Quiz!
- 12/15/2021 Now Rand Paul Is In Favor of Big Government
- 12/09/2021 Democrats Have Failed To Protect Abortion Rights
- 12/01/2021 There’s No Cure For Covidiocy
- 11/18/2021 Chris Christie’s Rehabilitation Humiliation
- 11/11/2021 Charlottesville Defendants Turn Trial into a Platform for Hate
- 11/03/2021 Don’t Look Now, But Winter is Coming
- 10/26/2021 You Would Not Want To Be In Merrick Garland’s Shoes
- 10/19/2021 Country First: Let’s Remember Colin Powell At His Best
- 09/28/2021 Are Democrats Going to Get Their Act Together or What?
- 09/14/2021 Wise Words From George W. Bush That Republicans Will Ignore
- 09/02/2021 To Control Women’s Bodies, Texas Empowers Bounty Hunters
- 08/26/2021 A Powerful Pummeling of Trump’s Hack MAGA Lawyers
- 08/17/2021 It Was Always Going to End This Way in Afghanistan
- 08/05/2021 COVID Widow Tells Deniers to Get Real
- 07/28/2021 Words the MAGA Cult Don’t Want You to Hear
- 07/21/2021 Sean Hannity Suggests Fox News Should Stop Killing People
- 07/14/2021 Very Nice, Uncle Joe. But You Only Told Us What We Already Know.
- 07/08/2021 Rupert Murdoch is Launching Fox Weather. We Can Only Imagine…
- 07/01/2021 Indictment is Just the Start of Trump’s Troubles
- 06/22/2021 Yet Another Reason the Church Keeps Losing Members
- 06/16/2021 In the War on American Democracy, Journalists Can’t Be Neutral
- 06/09/2021 Texas is Whitewashing its Racist History
- 05/27/2021 RIP John Warner, a Republican Who Worked Across the Aisle. Imagine That.
- 05/20/2021 Democrats Shouldn’t Negotiate With Terrorists
- 05/11/2021 Is Chris Christie Pathetic, Shrewd, or Pathetically Shrewd?
- 05/06/2021 Laud Liz Cheney For Defending Truth, But Don’t Forget Her Father’s Lies
- 04/29/2021 Supreme Sleaze: Amy Coney Barrett’s Corrupt Conflict of Interest
- 04/22/2021 Fake Vaccine Cards and the Cult of American Selfishness
- 04/14/2021 Some Evangelical Christians Have Forgotten Their Moral Duty
- 04/07/2021 So Now Republicans Hate Coke and Baseball
- 04/01/2021 This Time Infrastructure Week Is For Real
- 03/24/2021 White Republicans Who Oppose D.C. Statehood Are More Hilarious Than Ever
- 03/16/2021 Long Live Obamacare. Now It’s NoMalarkeyCare.
- 03/12/2021 Biden is the Best Man for this Pivotal Moment
- 03/10/2021 Can We Please Not Talk Anymore About the Royals?
- 03/04/2021 Functionally Illiterate About Our Own Democracy
- 02/25/2021 Republicans Suddenly Clutching Their Pearls About Mean Tweets
- 02/18/2021 Limbaugh Was Trump Long Before We Got Trump
- 02/16/2021 Texas Needed Help From an ‘Illegitimate’ President
- 02/10/2021 Trump’s Impeachment Lawyer Was Not Philly’s finest
- 02/02/2021 Starved for Some Good News? Listen to the New Secretary of State.
- 01/27/2021 Show Me the Money: Put Tubman on the Twenty
- 01/20/2021 Goodbye MAGA, Hello MGWA (Make Government Work Again)
- 01/12/2021 Mike Pence Feels Very Aggrieved. Where’s My Violin?
- 01/07/2021 Trump’s Mob Runs Wild. Why is Anyone Shocked?
- 01/04/2021 Another Perfect Beautiful Trump Call
- 12/30/2020 A Young, Healthy Republican Spoke at a Maskless Rally. Now He’s Dead.
- 12/23/2020 Trump Pardons Four Murdering War Criminals. That’s Our Boy.
- 12/17/2020 Lest We Forget, Republicans Were Un-American Long Before Trump
- 12/08/2020 Can Disease-Spreading Dolts Be Reasoned With?
- 12/01/2020 Scott Atlas Has Quit, But Can’t Scrub the Blood Off His Hands
- 11/19/2020 How Does Emily Murphy Sleep At Night?
- 11/17/2020 Just Peachy: As Georgia Goes, So Goes the Senate
- 11/10/2020 Science Triumphant: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Vivek Murthy
- 10/30/2020 Six Reasons to Wave Bye Bye to the Biden Family ‘Scandal’
- 10/27/2020 Biden’s Statement to Slowly Move From Oil to Renewable Energy is a Gaffe?
- 10/20/2020 Another Profile in Courage from the GOP Cowardice Corps
- 10/16/2020 Whenever Trump Flaps His Yap, He Makes the Best Case for Biden
- 10/13/2020 Flailing Trump Thinks Time Travel Will Rescue His Campaign
- 10/08/2020 My Exclusive Interview With the Fly That Sat on Mike Pence’s Head
