Politics

Late last month, CNN released a recording of then-candidate Donald Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen discussing a deal to acquire the rights to former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal’s story of her alleged affair with the future president. Trump ally and National Enquirer owner David Pecker had purchased the story …

Brett Kavanaugh was not a fan of President Clinton. The U.S district court judge and prospective Supreme Court justice spent over three years working for Kenneth Starr, including the time the independent counsel was investigating Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky. When it came time in August 1998 for Kavanaugh to …

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA —The old man scowled across the courtroom. “Let’s get to the heart of the matter.” “We’ve been at the heart of —” the younger man, a lawyer, interjected. “Just listen to me!” the old man said. The lawyer stared at the floor. The room went silent. The fifth …

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — This was his life now. Paul J. Manafort Jr. took his seat in Room 900 of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, just before 9 a.m. Tuesday. The disgraced political influence-peddler and former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign wore a dark suit and said …

Murder can be a message, and the men who lynched Emmett Till in 1955 surely sought to communicate through his broken and bloated flesh. The 14-year-old boy falsely accused of sexually harassing Carolyn Bryant in Money, Mississippi, instantly became both a victim and a lesson. Had his killers wanted to …

An envelope arrived from the New York State Comptroller’s office the other day, with a check inside for $108. Apparently I’d left it sitting in some bank account years ago, and now it was being returned. Free money is good fun, and where we live $108 buys you the best …

Quick, name someone who Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both know and venerate. Give up? Try Fedor Emelianenko, a 230-pound, Ukrainian-born MMA fighter, widely described as the best MMA scrapper of all time – and one of the scariest, battle-scarred combat veterans ever to have entered the octagon. Consider this …

In April of 2010, ex-FBI agent John Guandolo, who had left the agency months before wide-spread revelations of ethical breaches that included sleeping with confidential sources, held a training session for the Columbus, Ohio police department titled “Understanding the True Nature of the Threat to America.” During the course of …

When Luke Harding sat down with Christopher Steele in a London pub in December 2016, he hoped Steele might help him develop an admittedly thin lead that Russia covertly financed Donald Trump‘s campaign. At the time, Steele was a relatively unknown former British intelligence officer, despite the fact that he …

Next week is the five-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 26 dead, including 20 children, in what was formerly the sleepy community of Newtown, Connecticut. Since that shooting, gun-control advocates have clamored, begged and even held sit-ins on the floor of the House of Representatives …