Trump prepares to threaten Mexico with new tariffs in attempt to force migrant crackdown  —  President Trump is preparing to threaten Mexico with new tariffs as part of an attempt to force the country to crack down on a surge of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States …

North Korea's Kim Jong Un carrying out purge after Hanoi summit collapse: Chosun Ilbo  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February …

5 Ways Trump Has Remade the Democratic Party  —  John F. Harris is founding editor of POLITICO and author of “The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House.”  —  For years, a growing stripe of Democrats has argued that what their party needs is a leader willing to shatter old assumptions, a radical disrupter.

McCain warship incident raises questions about a changing military culture under Trump  —  A dust-up over who directed and knew about White House efforts to obscure the USS John S. McCain ahead of President Trump's visit to Japan has raised new questions about whether the military's culture …

“Inconsistent, Incoherent, and Poorly Conceived”: As the Times Clamps Down on Reporters Going on MSNBC, Is This a Liberal-Media War?  —  The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.”  Dean Baquet “thinks it's a real issue.”

Baby Trump Balloon, Milkshakes Primed for President's U.K. Visit  — Thousands of protesters to send ‘strong’ anti-Trump message  — U.S. leader's schedule includes London events unlike last year  —  Thousands of protesters are preparing to greet U.S. President Donald Trump …

AOC and Ted Cruz may team up for lobbying ban  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted back and forth on Thursday about co-leading a bill banning members of Congress from exiting the political arena only to become lobbyists.

Revealed: Memo Shows Trump Officials Trying to Rig Elections for Whites  —  Republicans want to ask about citizenship on the census.  Now we know it is to undermine ‘one person, one vote.’  —  A secret trove of documents was revealed Thursday showing that the Trump administration added …

Team Obama Tells Iran: Don't Escalate, Don't Take Trump's Bait  —  As tensions with Iran heat up, former Obama administration officials have quietly urged government officials there to keep their cool.  —  As the Trump administration sent warplanes and an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf …

The troubling legacy of Martin Luther King  —  Newly-revealed FBI documents portray the great civil rights leader as a sexual libertine who ‘laughed’ as a forcible rape took place  —  David J. Garrow Features … Newly-released documents reveal the full extent of the FBI's surveillance …

Mueller destroyed one of Trump's biggest lies.  Trump just helped him do it.  —  President Trump just admitted that Russia helped elect him president.  “I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.  It was a crime that didn't exist,” Trump rage-tweeted, adding that this again shows …

Trump and Bibi's Bad Week  —  They're both at war with those who would investigate them.  But are they winning or losing?  —  We knew that this particular Presidential meltdown was coming.  By the time President Trump ranted to the media on Thursday morning, shouting over the noise …

Barr says Mueller “could've reached a decision” on whether Trump obstructed justice  —  Tune in to “CBS This Morning” on Friday, May 31, for the full interview with Attorney General William Barr.  —  Attorney General William Barr said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached …

Nikki Haley begins experiment in political life after Trump  —  Of the many senior officials to leave the Trump administration over the past two years, few have exited on better terms than former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.  Before her departure last December …

Full list: 50 House members who favor starting Trump impeachment inquiry  —  It includes 11 members of the House Judiciary Committee as well as chairs of various House committees.  —  Here are the members of the House of Representatives who favor starting an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

Team Trump Now Wants Mueller to Testify Before Congress in Hopes of a Grilling  —  The president has said he doesn't want the special counsel to talk on the Hill.  But after Mueller's statement Wednesday, Trump's team is itching for it.  —  President Trump's close advisers are increasingly pining …

Nevada Governor Vetoes National Popular Vote Bill for Some Stupid Reason  —  The Electoral College is an indefensibly stupid institution.  Contrary to depressingly widespread belief, America's contemporary approach to electing presidents does not uphold the Framers' intentions …

Koch Network Alums Are Going Full-On White Nationalist  —  Two young men with links to Charles Koch-funded academic and political operations were recently outed as members of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa.  —  Jared Holt, Right Wing Watch

Kirsten Gillibrand's Failure to Launch  —  She's tough and smart.  The New York senator seemed like a top-tier 2020 contender.  So why is she crashing?  —  Tim Alberta is chief political correspondent for Politico Magazine.  —  HAMPTON, New Hampshire—Kirsten Gillibrand is only asking for a dollar.

Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office?  —  PHILADELPHIA — Moments after the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, wrapped up his appearance at the Justice Department on Wednesday, Representative Dwight Evans stepped out of his district office …

What Sohrab Ahmari Gets Wrong  —  There is no political “emergency” that justifies abandoning classical liberalism, and no temporal emergency could ever justify rejecting the eternal truth.  —  Yesterday, New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari published a lengthy essay with the rather eye-catching title, “Against David French-ism.”

New Democratic Debate Rules Will Distort Priorities, Some Campaigns Say  —  The Democratic Party's new directive that candidates must have at least 130,000 donors to qualify for the third primary debate in September arrived virtually without warning on Wednesday morning …

MERYL STREEP SAYS SHE DOESN'T AGREE WITH THE TERM ‘TOXIC MASCULINITY’ … Meryl Streep has expressed her opposition to the term “toxic masculinity”, stating her view that use of the expression can be harmful for boys.  —  The actor made her comments while taking part in a Q …

Disney Threatens To Boycott Georgia But Partners With China, Which Puts Muslims In Internment Camps  —  The Walt Disney Company is considering boycotting Georgia over its new abortion law, even as Disney profits from doing business in China, a notorious human rights violator that is putting Muslims in internment camps.