BY ANN DAPICE Following last month’s excellent Observer article, “Epidemic,” about missing and murdered Native girls and women, the darkness of trafficking continues to be...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Donald Trump loooooves farmers. We know this because he says so. “Farmers, I LOVE YOU!” he declared in December. And we’ve learned that whenever The Donald says something, it’s true – even when it’s not. These days, he’s loving farmers to death. Trump has ignored the obvious need to get monopolistic price-fixing bankers, […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Doesn’t have a chance? When the public says they’re looking for that so-called generic Democrat whom they would overwhelmingly favor over President Donald Trump, they mean Michael Bennet. They just don’t know it yet. In 2013, he was one of the “Gang of Eight” – four Democrats and four Republicans – who […]

BY JOE CONASON When Donald Trump retweeted a malicious fantasy about the apparent suicide of imprisoned pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he wasn’t merely entertaining his deluded fans. Trump’s conspiratorial canard – with attendant promotion by Russian bots, American alt-rightists and far-right media – was plainly designed to deflect attention from his own embarrassing associations with Epstein. […]

BY GARY EDMONDSON To facilitate the writing process, I save news stories under a general “Ammo” folder. I ensile pertinent info under such topics as...