Mark Angelides

Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has been named as the Attorney General of the United States. President-elect Trump announced his pick for America's “top cop” in a social media post, today, November 13. He wrote:

President-elect Donald Trump appears to be in the midst of political machinations that could upend the business-as-usual approach to governance in the nation's capital. With the GOP House majority now official and Senate leadership in place, there is growing suspicion that the former and future president is engaged in a series of gambits that will send shockwaves through the establishment and allow him to hit the ground running.

In a long-anticipated reveal, Donald Trump announced on Thursday, November 14, that he would appoint Kennedy to oversee HHS. On the campaign trail, the former president had made clear that he had planned to let him “go wild” on the nation's fast-deteriorating health. During his now-infamous

With the 2024 election delivering a Washington, DC, trifecta to the GOP in the form of the presidency, the House, and the Senate, key Democratic Party players have a plan for resistance. An anti-Trump triumvirate to resist the sweeping changes Donald Trump has proposed is forming that could present a uniquely effective front against the president-elect's plans.

Just days after Donald Trump announced in November 2022 that he would again be running for office, Jack Smith was appointed as special counsel, and a legal whirlwind set its course against the former – and now future – president. Yesterday, November 25, Smith filed for the charges to be dropped, signifying that, for now, the federal cases against 45 are over, but that doesn't mean that Trump or his allies will not spend the next four years litigating. In fact, it seems that the lawfare campaign is ready to move beyond the personal to the political.

On Wednesday, November 27, President-elect Donald Trump and Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo talked about closing the US-Mexico border. Behind the conversation, it seems an accord is waiting in the wings. While both sides declared the discussion productive, an undercurrent is being purposely obscured by US media.

Late Sunday, December 1, President Joe Biden issued a full and sweeping pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, in a move that is sure to create cognitive dissonance among the denizens of the Fourth Estate and beyond. Citing “political pressure” to prosecute, the outgoing president used his executive powers to wipe the slate clean not only for the crimes of which Hunter has been convicted but also for any and all crimes that may have been committed in the last ten years. How does the volatile anti-Trump left square this particular circle?

Though necessary to fund the government through March 2025, a more-than 1,500-page Continuing Resolution, which some described as “pork-filled,” was defeated before reaching the House floor yesterday, December 18. Leading conservatives pressured Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to drop the measure and instead focus on a simple package without additional pet projects. Opposition leader Rep. Hakeem […]