Steve Bannon Headlines New Yorker Festival  —  Readers of The New Yorker prize the magazine for its wide-ranging collection of perspectives.  From Oct. 5 to 7, The New Yorker Festival, now in its 19th year, will bring some of these voices to venues around New York City.

Trump's Top TV Advisers Keep Telling Him: Fire the ‘Shill’ Jeff Sessions Now  —  The drumbeat has become deafening and, unfortunately for the beleaguered attorney general, it's Trump's favorite pundits making all the noise.  —  President Donald Trump has a proven track record …

How Rudy Giuliani Turned Into Trump's Clown  —  The former mayor's theatrical, combative style of politics anticipated—and perfectly aligns with—the President's.  —  Although it has been almost a generation since Rudolph Giuliani was the mayor of New York, there is one place in the city …

Colin Kaepernick part of Nike's 30th anniversary of ‘Just Do It’ campaign  —  Colin Kaepernick is back — at least as far as Madison Avenue is concerned.  —  The former NFL quarterback, who is suing NFL owners for colluding to keep him out of the league, is one of the faces of a new Nike campaign meant …

Brett Kavanaugh May Soon Unshackle All Rich Political Donors  —  By the time President Donald Trump runs for reelection in 2020, he might be able to accept unlimited campaign contributions to support his bid, thanks to his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.

Trump's ‘majority’ is fake  —  likes to complain about “Fake News.”  —  So, here's some very real news for him:  —  Republican control of Capitol Hill and the White House is based on a “fake majority.”  —  “A majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation's population …

Democrats, Eyeing a Majority, Prepare an Investigative Onslaught  —  WASHINGTON — House Democrats, increasingly optimistic they will win back control in November, are mining a mountain of stymied oversight requests in preparation for an onslaught of hearings, subpoenas and investigations …

Biden hits the trail like he's running  —  The former vice president spends Labor Day courting midterm voters in Pittsburgh, but also doing his own gut check for a possible 2020 run.  —  PITTSBURGH — Cue the jokes: Joe Biden is running.  In fact, he spent much of Labor Day sprinting …

Trump's pollution rules rollback to hit coal country hard  —  GRANT TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — It's coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country.  —  So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan to roll back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.

Networks crop Farrakhan from Clinton/Jackson/Sharpton image at Aretha's funeral  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  It was an image that caused quite a stir Friday afternoon.  There on the stage presiding over Aretha Franklin's epic funeral extravaganza was former President Bill Clinton alongside …

Statement from Stephen J. Adler, President and Editor-in-Chief, Reuters, on reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Sep 3, 2018  —  Reuters President and Editor-in-Chief, Stephen J. Adler, issued the following statement today after a Myanmar court delivered its verdict in the case against Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo;

If the GOP isn't McCain's party, why not build a new one?  —  The soaring music still hums in our ears.  Phrases from the eulogies still echo.  Those who attended Sen. John McCain's funeral and some of those who watched it on TV may still be marveling at the showing of national unity and purpose.

Another metric points to a possible midterm blue wave  —  Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas has found a new way to measure House Republicans' peril: “vulnerability ratio,” which he measures as the net number of seats at risk versus the number needed to flip.

Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam  —  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam's central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated …

Inside Twitter's Long, Slow Struggle to Police Bad Actors  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has personally weighed in on high-profile decisions, frustrating some employees  —  When Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.29% Chief Executive Jack Dorsey testifies before Congress this week, he'll likely be asked …

Immigrants, fearing Trump crackdown, drop out of nutrition programs  —  Both documented and undocumented immigrants fear that accepting federal aid could make them ineligible for a green card if rules are changed.  —  Immigrants are turning down government help to buy infant formula …

FEMA Spending Millions on Contracts with FEMA Chief's Old Clients  —  In TYT Investigates by TYT Investigates, September 3, 20180 Comments … At least two former clients of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator William “Brock” Long have received FEMA contracts totaling …

Saving Idlib from Destruction  —  Numerous signs point to an imminent Syrian regime offensive to recapture Idlib, the largest remaining rebel-held area.  To ward off another humanitarian calamity, Russia, Iran and Turkey should immediately convene talks to extend the truce and seek other ways of removing Idlib's jihadist hard core.

8 questions for the midterm elections: A blue wave or not?  —  Campaign 2018 begins the final stretch this week.  All but a few states have finished their primaries, and the general election ballots are set almost everywhere.  The stakes are difficult to overstate.