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Wiretap: The national stories you should be reading

This will shock no one, but it should. New York Times columnist Tim Egan writes about the new guardian of public lands, William Perry...
Mike Littwin's curated national news stories and analysis you should be reading

Wiretap: The national stories you should be reading

Donald Trump’s words of comfort for the mass shooting victims in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio — read stiffly from a teleprompter —...
Mike Littwin's curated national news stories and analysis you should be reading

Wiretap: The national stories you should be reading

Round 2 of the debates begins tonight on CNN, with 10 debaters tonight and 10 tomorrow. The headliners tonight are progressives Elizabeth Warren and...
Mike Littwin's curated national news stories and analysis you should be reading

Wiretap: The national stories you should be reading

Donald Trump, who now apparently believes that tariffs are the answer to any problem, has stepped into it by threatening Mexico with tariffs if...

Wiretap: Could Trump really gut the Iran nuclear deal and still make one with...

As Donald Trump prepares for his surprise nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the world be watching to see whether Trump...

Wiretap: This just in from Trump White House, volatility edging toward ‘pure madness’

How bad are things in Trumpworld  these days? According to a deeply reported Washington Post piece, it might even be worse than you think....

Wiretap: The latest NRA position is that guns don’t kill, they fight off the...

As the gun-violence argument seems to taking hold, the NRA seems to be shifting its argument. If you watched the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre at...

Wiretap: Trump is talking gun control, but at this point it’s still just talk

In the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas shooting, Donald Trump is starting to talk about gun control. He’s talking publicly about banning bump stocks...

Wiretap: First came the 37-page indictment and then Trump’s Category 5 tweet storm

It was, even by Trumpian standards, the tweet storm to end all tweet storms, a Category 5 Twitter tempest that began Saturday night at...

Wiretap: The one person not to believe in the Rob Porter story is, reportedly,...

According to a report from Axios, Donald Trump has been spotted telling a lie. This shouldn’t be surprising, except that what Trump is reportedly...