Ari Rabin-Havt
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Trump’s outrageous lies come straight from big businesses’ playbook
Donald Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes recently told WAMU’s Diane Rehm that “there’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, as facts.” She’s right. And that’s the problem. We now disagree not just on our political philosophies but on whether proven facts are true. In this world, Hughes’s observation is the last self-evident truth: Facts are a thing of the past. For the foreseeable future,… → Read More
Ari Rabin-Havt
Ari Rabin-Havt Host of SiriusXM's The Agenda Sr. Fellow at People for the American Way ARI RABIN-HAVT is host of The Agenda, a national radio show airing Monday through Friday on SiriusXM and a Senior Fellow at People for the American Way. His writing has been featured in USA Today, The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Observer, Salon, and The American Prospect, and he has appeared on… → Read More
Why I'm A Man For Choice
A few years ago when asked about my position on abortion, I used to give a stock answer: that as cisgender man I would never have to make the choice myse... → Read More
Curt Schilling Equates Black Lives Matter With Nazis & The KKK
Wednesday, on his new Breitbart online radio show, former Red Sox pitcher and prospective Massachusetts Republican U.S. Senate candidate Curt Schilling equated the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis.While … → Read More
Do Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley Agree With Trump That No Mexican Americans Should Serve On The Supreme Court?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made clear this week not only that he wants Donald Trump to be president, but that the main reason he wants Trump ... → Read More
Donald Trump’s ‘Rigged’ Comments Are Just The Most Recent GOP Attacks On Elections Legitimacy
Donald Trump’s escalated rhetoric about the election being stolen has resulted in condemnations from across the political spectrum. Things have gotten so out of hand that Republican leaders, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, have felt compelled toclarify that … → Read More
Who Is Behind the Lie That More Guns Makes Us Safe?
By early June, West Virginians will be able to carry a concealed weapon without a permit thanks to the state legislature’s successful effort to override Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s veto of House Bill 4145. West Virginia is not alone. → Read More
Lie big, lie often, never back down: Donald Trump, Fox News and the real reason why right-wing lies stick
Misinformation spreads rapidly -- and intentionally -- in right-wing echo chambers. Here's how they do it → Read More
Our Politics Enables Donald Trump to Lie and Get Away With It
It is not simply that we are a country that is divided by political philosophy; we disagree on what should be stipulated facts. This is often cited as the problem behind debates about climate change, but it actually extends across nearly every issue with a partisan divide. → Read More
Chuck Grassley’s Staff Coordinates Conservative Organization’s Clinton Schemes While Not Confirming Merrick Garland
A newly released document from the FBI reveals that a staff member on Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Judiciary Committee helped to coordinate, through Newt Gingrich, the conservative group Judicial Watch’s investigations into Hillary Clinton’s email server.The document, an affidavit that was given by a “defense contractor … → Read More
Bernie Sanders Channels This Great Republican President
The Vermont Senator is not a socialist but a Bull Moose, the reformist party started by Theodore Roosevelt → Read More
Could a New Political Derivatives Market Improve Putrid Punditry?
Arguably, a website like PredictIt.org could prompt more people to participate in the democratic process. The emergence of the innovative market could also solve another vexing problem: putrid punditry. → Read More
Why Is the CBO Concocting a Phony Debt Crisis?
All the serious people in Washington know we have a debt problem. “Rapidly Growing Debt Threatens America’s Economic Future” blared a typical press release from Senate Budget Committee chairman Mike Enzi. → Read More
Why Is the CBO Concocting a Phony Debt Crisis?
All the serious people in Washington know we have a debt problem. “Rapidly Growing Debt Threatens America’s Economic Future” blared a typical press release from Senate Budget Committee chairman Mike Enzi. → Read More
Why Is the CBO Concocting a Phony Debt Crisis?
All the serious people in Washington know we have a debt problem. “Rapidly Growing Debt Threatens America’s Economic Future” blared a typical press release from Senate Budget Committee chairman Mike Enzi. → Read More
Why Is the CBO Concocting a Phony Debt Crisis?
All the serious people in Washington know we have a debt problem. “Rapidly Growing Debt Threatens America’s Economic Future” blared a typical press release from Senate Budget Committee chairman Mike Enzi. → Read More
Holy Rollers: How the Christian Right Teamed with the NFL to Create FanDuel
You can’t switch on an NFL game on Sundays without watching a blitz of commercials promoting either FanDuel or DraftKings. According to iSpot.tv, the two new fantasy sports companies shelled out mo... → Read More
The Company You Keep: Why Is Jeb Bush Cozy With a Discredited Charter School Mill?
At the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Jeb Bush posed the following question: Everywhere in our lives, we get the chance to choose. Go down any supermarket aisle - you’ll find a... → Read More
Benghazi Investigation Spends Fortune to Harass Hillary Clinton
Over 13 months the Benghazi Select Committee has spent more than $3,500,000, exceeding the budget of the entire House Intelligence Committee. This figure does not include significant expenditures made by the State Department and Defense Department to find and declassify material requested by the committee or the expense of witness travel for those who work for the government. → Read More
Bipartisan Agreement: Foreign Governments Pay Former Senate Leaders to Sell TPP
Foreign governments who stand to gain from the TPP are running sophisticated operations to influence Congress and gather intelligence in Washington as the negotiations proceed. → Read More