Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War  —  The president falsely claims that tariffs are paid “directly” to the U.S. Treasury by China and indicates these nonexistent Chinese funds will cover the subsidy cost.  —  President Donald Trump is seeking …

Republicans Call Tlaib Anti-Semitic for Saying Something Nice About Israel  —  The Republican Party, which has a hair-trigger sensitivity to left-wing anti-Semitism as censorious as any social justice warrior, has whipped itself into its latest frenzy over comments by Representative Rashida Tlaib.

What's the Real Reason Trump Is Stonewalling Congress?  —  Maybe he wants to avoid more bad publicity.  Or maybe it's something worse.  —  If President Donald Trump thinks he's been totally exonerated, as he says, why is he stonewalling Congress?  Why wouldn't he want special counsel Robert Mueller …

Mayor de Blasio's NYPD vehicle was driving wrong way when it crashed with truck, sparking cover-up  —  Mayor de Blasio's NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic cover-up by his security detail, a new accident report obtained by the Daily News shows.

Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?  —  It's a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.  —  A lot of research has shown that there's no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States.

How Donald Trump Jr. and Richard Burr hit an impasse  —  Erin Burnett: Why is Trump afraid of Don Jr. subpoena?  —  (CNN)Donald Trump Jr. is balking at answering more questions about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and the pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow project, two sources familiar …

How Does Donald Trump Keep Getting Away With It?  —  Hint: From Congress to the courts, people keep treating Trump like a “normal” president.  It's time to stop.  —  Every day, President Donald Trump or his minions say something stupid, wrong, or demonstrably false.

Inside the Pampered and Personalized World of DC's VIP Diners  —  The big restaurant lie: Everyone is treated the same.  —  Sometimes maître d' Michael Arnaud has to play bad cop.  Granted, he wears a wide smile above his green bow tie and greets every customer of Joe's Seafood …

Many Democrats fear Trump is laying an impeachment trap  —  (CNN)It seems a crazy idea that any president would actually want to be impeached.  —  But Donald Trump has so subverted Washington logic with his wild, norm-crushing presidency that there is now a serious conversation …

Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden.  Don't Buy It.  —  Real journalists want to report the truth, wherever it takes them.  Peter Schweizer wants to reelect Donald Trump.  —  Michael Tomasky  —  Are we really going to do this again, Fourth Estate?

NYC mayor says he'll decide this week on presidential run  —  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio staged a chaotic press event Monday in the lobby of Trump Tower in which he said he will announce this week whether he's running for president.  —  Speaking at a podium steps from the spot …

‘The epitome of privilege’: Booker supporters seethe over Buttigieg mania  —  One of the Democrats running for president is a youthful former Rhodes Scholar who speaks more than one language and cut his teeth as a two-term mayor.  The other is Pete Buttigieg.

EXCLUSIVE: How money flows from Amazon to 8chan  —  Follow the money from the world's most valuable company to a racist troll haven  —  You may or may not know about the 8chan website—but you are familiar with its work.  The rudimentary message board is a wellspring of racism, violence …

One-Time #Resistance Hero Rod Rosenstein Was Trump's Leak-Hunter-in-Chief  —  The Trump administration is on pace for a record number of leak prosecutions—thanks in part to a man hailed by the president's fiercest critics.  —  Rod Rosenstein was a #Resistance hero—and one of Donald Trump's …

Omarosa Accuses Trump of Pay Discrimination: 'The Numbers Don't Lie'  —  The ex-Trump aide claims she was paid substantially less per month than her male counterpart for the same work.  —  Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the former Apprentice star who campaigned for President Trump and then followed …

Inside Jared Kushner's two missions impossible  —  As President Donald Trump launches his re-election bid, his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, is waging dual campaigns of his own, preparing to sell ambitious fixes to two of the most stubborn problems of the past 50 years.

An Oral History of Trump's Bigotry  —  The first quotation from Donald Trump ever to appear in The New York Times came on October 16, 1973.  Trump was responding to charges filed by the Justice Department alleging racial bias at his family's real-estate company.  “They are absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said of the charges.

U.S. Stocks Close Sharply Lower on Renewed Trade Anxiety  —  Dow drops more than 600 after China says it will raise tariffs on some U.S. imports  —  U.S. stocks slid Monday, heading for one of their worst days of the year, after officials in Beijing and the White House exchanged fresh threats …

Brewster's Millions at the NRA  —  How do you spend $1,100 in an airport with nothing to show for it?  —  1. Fancy Pants  —  Let's talk about the big NRA story from the weekend.  —  Somebody on the internet whose name almost certainly does not rhyme with Noliver Torth released …